Author: Vince Kimball

More proof that efficiency will matter to in-house lawyers who hire law firms. “Mobile phone operator O2 has instituted a radical new initiative in its legal department, which will include slashing its current panel of 38 law firms by two-thirds. … The litigation and mediation group of O2 is studying previous O2 disputes to assess whether they… Continue reading More proof that efficiency will matter to in-house lawyers who hire law firms

Paper Lawyer Directories Struggle Against Net. Interesting article from Law.com: “In 2000, Chicago's Sidley & Austin decided it no longer wanted to be listed in Martindale-Hubbell. At the time, firms of Sidley's size were paying Martindale around $250,000, said a source familiar with the directory debate. Sidley & Austin, which went on to merge with… Continue reading Paper Lawyer Directories Struggle Against Net

Trinity hacks into the power grid.  Geeks enter the Matrix. Hollywood gets hacking right in The Matrix: Reloaded, warming the hearts of the “skilz” squad in its spot-on outline of how to gain root. Real-life hacking is about as exciting to watch as paint drying, which could explain why Hollywood usually ignores the technical details… Continue reading Trinity hacks into the power grid

Maybe usability is rocket science, after all.. The Usability Engineering Team at NASA's Glenn Research Center have a site that offers help to teams adopting user centered design. Highlights include: Templates 10 great reasons to do usability User-Centered Design process with checklist. [ia/ – information architecture news]

Who pays for discovery of E-mail?. Lexis One is reporting on a story that is likely to be of interest to litigators who deal with discovery of electronic mail: “UBS Warburg was ordered this week to pay for the search and recovery of e-mail messages requested by a plaintiff, giving aggrieved investors a new legal… Continue reading Who pays for discovery of E-mail?

Lessig on Howard Dean. “Howard Dean says at least two important and true things here: (1) “The way to deal with a leader is to be another leader, and to be strong in your views and present the American people with a choice”; (2) “For me, when the Cumulus Corporation, which owns a lot of… Continue reading Lessig on Howard Dean

New Law Blog. Dennis Kennedy nabs this one: “Legal marketing maven, Larry Bodine, has joined the blogging world (with XML feed).”   Dennis says his “Law Marketing Portal is a fabulous resource on legal marketing.”  Adjust your browser bookmarks and RSS aggregators accordingly. [Ernie the Attorney]

What sort of Information Technology does the CIA have?. Here's one account that is pretty interesting.  Here's an excerpt regarding how the Directorate of Intelligence analysts do their job: “an important part of a DI analyst’s tradecraft is building an informal source network. A good analyst either knows someone, or “knows someone who knows someone,”… Continue reading What sort of Information Technology does the CIA have?

Other News: Why Things Don't Work: Business 2.0 talks with Donald Norman about usability, discussing Microsoft, IBM and Dell. * [Archipelago]

Slimp3.  One of our favorite recent toys has been the Slimp3. It's a very simple device – about the size of a rolled up magazine, with ports for power, Ethernet, and amplifier. It's job is to take mp3 files streamed from a server and play them through the amplifier. The nice thing about it is… Continue reading Slimp3