eDiscovery Daily Blog

• January 13, 2017

These are two totally unrelated topics, by the way.

Last week, when I wrote about whether this is the age of technical competence for attorneys, I also referenced our webcast on Wednesday, January 25th at noon CT (1pm ET, 10am PT) titled What Every Attorney Should Know About eDiscovery in 2017 via the BrightTALK network.  This is a one-hour session that Karen DeSouza (Director of Review Services here at CloudNine) and I have conducted for the past couple of years for hundreds of legal professionals for CLE credit in Texas.  It’s a good fundamental session that covers key terms, the eDiscovery life cycle, rules, duties, and case law which can give you tools and resources necessary to efficiently and effectively meet challenging discovery obligations that you’ll face this year.

At the time, I indicated that we were working on CLE credit for at least some states.  I’m happy to announce that we now have CLE approval for two states: Texas and Florida.  The Texas approval is 1.0 hours of CLE credit, with 0.25 hours of Ethics credit.

The Florida approval is for 1.0 hours of CLE, with 1.0 hours of Technology CLE credit.  As you’ll remember, Florida late last year mandated three hours of technology CLE for attorneys over a three year period, starting January 1 of this year.  So, if you’re in the Florida Bar, this an opportunity to get one of those hours!

Click here to register for the webcast.  Hope to see you there (at least digitally) on the 25th!

Also…

In the latest post in his excellent LawSites blog (What’s With These Fake Lawyer Blogs and Twitter Accounts?), Bob Ambrogi mentions that he has “five very loyal followers of this blog. Three are lawyers, one is a legal secretary and one is a legal assistant.”  According to Bob, these particular followers reblog “everything” Bob posts onto their blogs and Tweet some of what he posts on their Twitter feeds and are loyal followers of other blogs, as well.

The only problem is that none of them appear to be real people.  Bob noticed the issue when, recently, all five separate blogs “started reposting everything” he posts and they “always do it in unison, within a minute or two of each other”.  He also noted that all five blogs use essentially the same page layout and nearly identical list of links to their other supposed social media accounts.

With a little snooping and some help from Google image search to search for the pictures displayed on their Twitter accounts, he has found that one has matched an endodontist named John Smith (who may or may not be real, as well) and another to someone who has a profile on a personals site.  The name for neither of them ties to an actual attorney currently licensed to practice in their supposed state.

I clicked on the link to the Twitter account of the first “lawyer” that Bob mentioned.  While I didn’t see any Tweets of Bob’s posts, I did see several posts from Kevin O’Keefe’s excellent blog, Real Lawyers Have Blogs.  Oh, the irony!

So, what do you think?  Where do you go for legal technology content?  Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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