Larry Zimmerman

Practice Management

International Legal Technology Association
ABA Law Practice Management Section
International Legal Technical Standards Organization

Presentation and Trial Technologies/Techniques

Bow Tie Legal – ESI Discussions and Analysis
Persuasive Litigator – Trial Techniques and Technology
Red Well – Trial Preparation, Presentation, and Jury Selection
Cogent Legal – Presentation Technology and Techniques
The Jury Expert – Trial Preparation, Presentation, and Jury Selection
KeepVid – Download YouTube Videos

“Virtual” Law Firm

Basecamp – Online Collaboration for Virtual Law Firm
Stephanie Kimbro, author of Virtual Law Practice
Shpoonkle – A Legal Services eBay for clients and lawyers
Adrian Dayton’s Guide to Social Media for Lawyers

Practice Tools

GNU Cash – Free, Open Source Double-Entry Accounting Software
MN Bar Association Guide to GNU Cash for Lawyers
Get Digitize – Misc. Technology Tips and How-To Articles
RECAP the Law – Princeton’s Attempt to Improve Access to Public Court Records

Online Courseware and Education

Khan Academy – Online Educational Videos and Classes
Open Culture – Online Educational Videos and Classes
Apple’s iTunes University – Online Educational Videos and Classes

Fun Stuff (with a Practical Bent)

Etsy – Unique handmade and vintage gifts from small-scale sellers
Fab – Cool (maybe hipster) Shopping
Art of Manliness – Manly Things (and Good Advice on a Wide Array of Topics)
FARK – A “not news” News Aggregator and Online Community
Kickass App – Play Asteroids Against Any Website

Fitness and Health

Fitocracy – Fitness Tracking as a Social Game
Spark People – Fitness/Diet Tracking Social Community
Runkeeper – Run Tracking

The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts maintains an online efiling tutorial. You can find the tutorial here.

Review the Orientation and then complete the Complaints and Motions tutorials under Section 3: Civil Filings and then the Queries tutorial under Section 4: Reports.

LexisNexis also provides electronic filing systems for some state courts. Another component of their File & Serve product which allows counsel and parties to configure online litigation support sites for service and exchange of documents independent of the courts. Review the “Take a Tour” link of the File & Serve, Case-Based E-Service product here.

Once you’ve completed the tutorial on federal electronic case filing and the LexisNexis File & Serve product overview, complete this survey by end of class Wednesday, November 7.

Jim Calloway’s article, Metadata – What Is It and What Are My Ethical Duties?, provides an overview of still-shifting ethics opinions on attorneys’ ethical obligations in dealing with metadata. The debate relates to whether attorneys should be allowed to use accidentally revealed metadata or even to actively solicit it surreptitiously.

1. Read Calloway’s article and the ABA update on Metadata Ethics Opinions.

2. Write and support your own opinion on the issue of whether a lawyer receiving accidentally disclosed metadata should be able to use it or not. This doesn’t have to be a detailed legal brief but should be an informed position documented by experience and analysis.

Please email your opinion to me by Wednesday, October 24, 2012.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency established Ready.gov website in 2003 to prompt individuals and businesses to evaluate readiness for disaster and to provide tools for contingency planning. While the information is basic, post-incident reviews of individual and business readiness following calamities like Katrina and the 9/11/2001 World Trade Center attacks revealed most have not even considered the basic planning Ready.gov helps initiate.

Your assignment for this section (due by Monday, September 24) will be to download the Emergency Response Plan Template. Complete the plan using your current or a prior place of employment as the model for completing the template (use aliases if preferred). Consider your evaluation and answers as if you were charged with producing a working continuity and disaster plan for your place of employment. Be thorough but honest; if there’s an area you cannot prepare for or do not know how to address, include that and identify who/what would be necessary to fill that gap.

Turn in the completed Emergency Response Plan by end of class on Monday, September 24).

Specific resources discussed in class are available here.

The Open Security Foundation maintains a website here that attempts to list all publicly revealed events where electronic data was lost or compromised.

Select two events from the database and read the associated articles discussing the breach and individuals affected. Note if there was any remediation of the breach mentioned. Once you’ve reviewed two of the breaches, complete this survey. Be sure your name is included on the survey.

You may also be interested in the OSF’s latest venture, cloutage.org, which attempts to document known security issues and outages related to “cloud computing.”

Please have the survey completed (with your name included) by Monday, September 17.

Specific statutes, sites, software, and services discussed in class are available here.