While looking at updates for practicelaw and the new mndocs site, we came across three nifty ideas to take your website up a notch. First up, SpicyNodes. It promises to make your site “spicy” by organizing your site and allowing users to “scan large quantities of information and linger over the details important to them.” …
Staying Updated on a Budget
Keeping overhead low is one of the most important things a new solo can do while building a practice. While there are lots of ways to save money — from your office choices to technology — something we shouldn’t limit is our education. That is, staying updated on the law and learning how to run …
Jureeka: Useful and Cool, But Limited
There’s been a bit of geek-world excitement recently about Jureeka, a Firefox add-on that automatically catches legal citations in web pages, enabling you to click on the citation and get the case from one of the public online caselaw repositories. I must admit, it’s pretty nifty. But for Minnesota lawyers, it’s currently limited to Minnesota …
Keyboard Shortcuts
Every month we get together with Minnesota State Bar Association members for Off the Clock, an informal discussion about tech tools for solo and small firm practitioners. Once a week we post either a tech or writing tip so you can better yourself two minutes at a time. One of the best ways to save …
Coming Soon to a Computer Near You
With Monday’s launch of WestlawNext, Thomson Reuters’s new legal research platform, and recent announcements from Fastcase and LexisNexis about new products, it’s time to step back and see what really is changing. The New York Times and the latest ABA Journal both preview some of the changes, which we also summarize below. While competition for …
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