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We are getting some work done, a bit of gardening. It’s landscaping, which is mostly a word that I use when it’s “more gardening than I want to do myself” because, while I love gardening, I’m an incrementalist. A new plant here, a repotted one over there. We are going to plant out our front yard…
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I have been watching some online colleagues in Denmark engage in a massive withdrawal from US-based technology. #DanmarkSkifter It has encouraged me to continue along this path myself. Years ago I started to spread my internet use across web browsers to try to silo some of their knowledge about me. Even though I tend to…
Continue Reading A Wander Among Web Browsers

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I have been thinking a lot about the resilience of this website. Over time, I have stopped linking to live copies of resources because they disappear. I have been blogging for over 20 years and there are still people looking at posts I did early on where every resource I linked to has succumbed to the…
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I am coming towards the end of my book project. I am proofing the pages — which is kind of fun, a bit like seeing a movie trailer before it comes out, the words finally constrained by proper page layout — and thinking about the index. It seems common for the author to be responsible for…
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I am about one-third of the way through the first run of my law practice technology course. It has been very useful as I am writing the teaching manual for my coursebook (coming out in about 6-8 weeks) and so I’m able to battle test some of the manual’s content. So far, the students…
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The chairman of the American law firm, Paul Weiss &c, resigned after his connections to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein became known. It’s hardly surprising that the first law firm to put its business model before its professional legal ethics during the second Trump Administration was led by someone with questionable personal connections. The legal profession…
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We are over a quarter of the way through the initial semester of my law practice technology class. Talk about building an airplane while flying it. My book has provided the skeleton and now I’m figuring out what can be accomplished within a 26-hour semester. In order to keep it practical—because otherwise, what’s the point?—we’re going…
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Another year, another change in legal information. The AALL Committee on Relations with Information Vendors (CRIV) did a nice write up of American Lawyer Media’s strategic changes. It is not the first legal publisher to (a) center its content exclusively on its own platform nor (b) to create all-or-nothing content pricing. As I look at…
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The semester is over. All going well, my grading will be done by the time this post appears. I am looking forward to the student evaluations, which I made a very pointed pitch to have them complete. It is the second skills-oriented class I have taught and reinforced for me how much focusing on effort matters.
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