Yesterday afternoon, the State Bar of Texas Appellate Section hosted a seminar for in-house and counsel and appellate lawyers. There were six panels covering [...]

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For all the work Adobe has done to make PDF documents hyperlinked, it has not included a basic navigational feature — the back button.

This weekend, [...]

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I’ll be speaking today with Blake Hawthorne at the UT State and Federal Appeals Conference about some recent changes in electronic briefing rules and what [...]

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The blog has covered the Texas Supreme Court’s new rules for electronic briefs, including a few pointers on what’s likely to trip you up.1

Today, I’m [...]

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In a blog post this afternoon, Google has announced that it will be making some changes to Buzz.

That’s good news.

In the future (“starting this week”), [...]

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I received lots of feedback to yesterday’s post “Lawyers (or journalists) with Gmail accounts: Careful with the Google Buzz”. My focus was the privacy [...]

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Do you use Gmail, even for personal mail? Do any of your clients use Gmail?

There was a pretty massive shift in your privacy a [...]

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While we’re in the process of moving to electronic briefs, perhaps the time has come to rethink how we record trial court proceedings.

A recent post [...]

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“Human sacrifice, judges and lawyers ‘friends’ on Facebook… mass hysteria!”

The greatest source of terror that lawyers face online is not from spyware, malware, phishers, or [...]

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For a few years, the Texas Supreme Court has made limited requests for PDF versions of briefs. The request was made only for those [...]

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I’ve written before about how to use Google’s normal search index to find unpublished opinions in Texas.

Google has now formally added legal opinions to another [...]

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There is a pending case in Louisiana that could become very significant for lawyer advertising in Texas. In Public Citizen, Inc., et al. v. [...]

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