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We would like to thank all the legal bloggers who have announced the launch of our new Web site and blog over the past few days!

"Can't find this stuff anywhere else" is how Bruce MacEwen  of Adam Smith, Esq. referred to our popular newsletters. We hope that TechnoLawyer Blog will eventually earn the same reputation as our newsletters. Below you'll find a list of the remarks to date (let us know if we missed any).

Robert Ambrogi's LawSites

Adam Smith, Esq.

DennisKennedy.blog

The Invent Blog

Bag and Baggage

Law Dawg Blog

Al Nye The Lawyer Guy

Tech Law Advisor

The Virtual Chase

Patent Baristas

SW Virginia Law Blog

Blawg

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About TechnoEditorials
A TechnoEditorial is the vehicle through which we opine and provide tips of interest to managing partners, law firm administrators, and others in the legal profession. TechnoEditorials appear first in TechnoGuide, and later here in TechnoLawyer Blog. TechnoGuide, which is free, also contains exclusive content. You can subscribe here.

Coming April 14, 2005 to Answers to Questions: Sean Tierney reviews an alternative to extranets for collaborating with clients, John Heckman discusses the pros and cons of using CompuLaw, David Silverman explains how to get more out of your digital copier with software add-ons, Susan Rosenberg provides an easy way to track trust accounts with QuickBooks, and Nick Kaczun discusses products that can automatically route your scanned documents to your document management system and to clients, colleagues, and others. Don't miss this issue.

How to Receive this Newsletter
Published Mondays and Thursdays, Answers to Questions is a twice weekly newsletter in which TechnoLawyer members answer legal technology and practice management questions submitted by their peers (including you if you join TechnoLawyer). Like all of our newsletters, it's free. Please subscribe now.

Coming April 11, 2005 to Answers to Questions: Clyde Ahlquist reviews the necessary equipment for setting up a VPN in a law firm, Mark Deal explains what to do when Time Matters Enterprise slows down, and Neil Chap and William Shilling discuss case management options for the Macintosh platform. Don't miss this issue.

How to Receive this Newsletter
Published Mondays and Thursdays, Answers to Questions is a twice weekly newsletter in which TechnoLawyer members answer legal technology and practice management questions submitted by their peers (including you if you join TechnoLawyer). Like all of our newsletters, it's free. Please subscribe now.

Coming April 15, 2005 to Fat Friday: Quite possibly the best Fat Friday newsletter ever, Kevin Grierson explores whether legal blogs are worth the effort, Yvonne Renfrew discusses Acrobat's 7's little-known killer feature for lawyers, and David Swanner sets forth 12 technology tips for trial lawyers (most of the tips apply to all lawyers not to mention law firm administrators). Don't miss this issue.

How to Receive this Newsletter
Published on Fridays, Fat Friday is a weekly newsletter that features a grab bag full of genuinely useful product reviews and tips on a wide variety of topics. Like all of our newsletters, it's free. Please subscribe now.

TechnoLawyer gained its first 100 e-mail subscribers within one day of launching in January 1997. During the previous year, I had served as a Host of AOL's Legal Forum. By the end of my AOL tenure, I had amassed a contact list of about 150 lawyers, paralegals, and law firm administrators interested in legal technology and practice management. Of these 150 people, 100 joined TechnoLawyer that first day. TechnoLawyer was off and running.

This past Thursday, we launched TechnoLawyer Blog. Once again, we've quickly reached the 100 "subscriber" mark — not e-mail subscribers of course, but people who have added our XML feed to their preferred newsreader. (Click here to learn more about XML feeds and newsreaders.)

How do we know?  We're using an XML feed analytics service provided by FeedBurner. The feed analytics industry is still in its infancy with no clear leader, but I think we chose well — FeedBurner just announced that it raised $7 million in its latest round of financing. (Syndicate IQ also looks promising, but it hasn't launched its service yet.)

I thought you might find some of our early statistics of interest:

Top 5 NewsReaders
1. MyYahoo
2. Bloglines
3. Firefox
4. SharpReader
5. FeedDemon

Top 5 Posts (Among Those Using Our Feed)
1. Adobe Acrobat on Steroids
2. Smart Shopping for Digital Dictation
3. Scanners: Visioneer 510 v. HP 5550C
4. Bye-Bye PDA Indeed
5. Let's Celebrate with a Dennis Kennedy TechnoFeature on Tablet PCs

Welcome to all our new readers!

About TechnoEditorials
A TechnoEditorial is the vehicle through which we opine and provide tips of interest to managing partners, law firm administrators, and others in the legal profession. TechnoEditorials appear first in TechnoGuide, and later here in TechnoLawyer Blog. TechnoGuide, which is free, also contains exclusive content. You can subscribe here.

Coming April 11, 2005 to IP Memes: You'll get the scoop on what the mainstream media didn't report about the Grokster case, read about a unique case involving common law copyright, and learn about the latest greatest site for downloading IP-related MP3 lectures and discussions (better known these days as a podcast). All that plus the IP Memes IP Blog of the Week.

How to Receive this Newsletter
Published on Mondays, IP Memes is a biweekly newsletter that explores emerging technology-related intellectual property issues — or "memes" as we call them. Like all of our newsletters, it's free. Please subscribe now.

Coming April 12, 2005 to TechnoFeature: Trial presentations were complex long before the technology revolution of the 1990s, but since that time, the choices for presenting e vidence in the courtroom have multiplied considerably. Despite having more options available, the fundamentals of trial advocacy remain unchanged: you must present a believable story to a jury using relevant evidence, and convince them to decide in your favor. In this article, trial presentation expert Barry Brian Wheeler takes a look at the considerations necessary for choosing and using technology that can turn a good trial presentation into a winning trial presentation.

How to Receive this Newsletter
Published on Tuesdays, TechnoFeature is a weekly newsletter that contains in-depth articles written by leading legal technology and practice management experts. Like all of our newsletters, it's free. Please subscribe now.

Recently in our TechnoGuide newsletter, TechnoLawyer member Diane Targovnik asked for help synchronizing her Treo with Group. Fellow TechnoLawyer member Nancy Crow has come to her rescue, writing "Intellisync syncs my Handspring Visor with GroupWise quite nicely. I'm sure it will work with a Treo." TechnoLawyer member Sharon Taylor seconds Nancy's recommendation: "We have been able to use the Intellisync software to transfer data to GroupWise and sync calendar and address information from Palm Pilot databases into Groupwise databases." You can try Intellisync before you buy a copy.

About Quips
A Quip is a brief member contribution for which we don't have room in our Answers to Questions or Fat Friday newsletters. Instead, Quips appear first in TechnoGuide, and later here in TechnoLawyer Blog. TechnoGuide, which is free, also contains exclusive content. You can subscribe here.

To celebrate the launch of TechnoLawyer Blog, we have posted in full Dennis Kennedy's excellent analysis of Tablet PCs. This article ran earlier this week in our TechnoFeature newsletter.

Synopsis
In this article, legal technology expert Dennis Kennedy reports on his move to the world of the Tablet PC. He gives the Tablet PC high marks, highlights ten key observations, and comments on how the Tablet PC has changed his approach to computers in some fundamental ways. He then wonders aloud what it will take for law firm IT departments to equip lawyers with these tools.

Should we blog? That was an easy question to answer, especially for a publisher.

What should we blog about? That was a much tougher question to answer, especially for a publisher.

Nearly a year in the making, today we launch TechnoLawyer Blog!

What Will Technolawyer Blog Contain?

At the outset, TechnoLawyer Blog will contain the following:

1. Coming Attractions

Every Friday, we will provide coming attractions for each of our newsletters the following week. We think you'll find many uses for these coming attractions. For example:

• If you submit a business or technology Question, you'll know which issues of our Answers to Questions newsletter address your Question.

• If you see something of interest coming up in a newsletter to which you don't subscribe, you can easily subscribe in time.

• You can review all past coming attractions to see what you've missed — just select the Coming Attractions topic.

2. Member News

TechnoLawyer members are among the most gifted and prominent in the legal profession.

Accordingly, we'll use our blog to let you know about their latest accomplishments — articles, eBooks, and books, upcoming appearances at seminars and on radio and television, press coverage, etc.

We'll also report on the law firms at which our members work. Specifically, we'll let you know when their firms launch a new blog, e-mail newsletter, or Web site, and any other noteworthy news.

3. Quips, TechnoEditorials, and Industry News

Quips: A Quip is a very short member contribution for which we don't have room in our Answers to Questions or Fat Friday newsletters. If you like insightful, pithy commentary, you'll like Quips.

TechnoEditorials: Occasionally, we like to opine on a practice management or legal technology issue. We call these opinions TechnoEditorials.

Industry News: We sometimes come across important industry news that the mainstream media fails to report. When they let you down, we'll fill the void.

In addition to reading Quips, TechnoEditorials and Industry News in TechnoLawyer Blog, you can also read them in our TechnoGuide newsletter. In fact, they will appear in TechnoGuide before they appear in TechnoLawyer Blog. Hey, membership has its privileges.

4. The Best Ads

Many people say they hate advertising, but what they probably mean is that they hate bad advertising and they hate irrelevant advertising.

When advertising is creative and relevant, people pay attention. Unfortunately, bad ads outnumber quality ads, and irrelevant ads outnumber relevant ads.

To encourage legal vendors to produce outstanding ads (which is to their benefit after all), we will publish the most controversial, creative, popular, and provocative legal technology and practice management ads in our blog — at no charge to legal vendors.

How's that for Starters?

We hope TechnoLawyer Blog will earn a bookmark in your browser or newsreader. Even more importantly, if you're not yet a TechnoLawyer member, we hope you'll join, and sign up for one or more of our critically-acclaimed newsletters. The price is certainly right — free. You can join here.