This WEEK in LAW 185

This WEEK in LAW Episode 185

This Week In Law 185: Now We Are Six

Party like it's 2006 on our Sixth Anniversary Show!

Panel

• Denise Howell
• Evan Brown
• Rick Klau (@rklau)
  • http://tins.rklau.com/
  • "Rick Klau is a Partner at Google Ventures where he runs the Startup Lab, Google Ventures' dedicated effort at connecting entrepreneurs at its portfolio companies with the experience and expertise across Google. Prior to joining Google Ventures, Rick was a Product Manager at Google, where he worked on products like Blogger, Google+ (previously Google Profiles) and YouTube. He is a graduate of Lafayette College and the University of Richmond School of Law, and previously served as a member of the board of directors for the University of Richmond Law School Alumni Association. Rick joined Google as a result of its acquisition of FeedBurner, where he ran FeedBurner's publisher services team. At the University of Richmond School of Law, he founded the world's first student-edited law journal to publish exclusively online, and received the T.C. Williams award from the law school faculty for the most significant contribution to legal scholarship."
• Ernie Svenson (@ernieattorney)
  • http://www.ernietheattorney.net/
  • "Ernest Svenson graduated from Loyola Law School in 1985 and then spent two years clerking for respected federal trial judge in New Orleans. Since then, he has practiced commercial litigation, first for a well-respected New Orleans law firm, and more recently as a solo practitioner. He has started several weblogs besides this one, including PDFforLawyers and DigitalWorkflowCLE. This ‘Ernie the Attorney’ weblog was chosen by the ABA Journal as one of the top 100 law weblogs two years in a row. Ernie believes that the practice of law is largely an “information processing business” and tries to help lawyers find more efficient ways to process their information. He routinely speaks to lawyers about various topics."

Topics

• Copyright in Legal Authority
  • To the ABA – Tear Down the Pay Wall that Keeps Ethics Opinions From Seeing the Light Of Day (Sign My Change.org petition) via MyShingle
• eBooks
  • A healthy reminder from Amazon: You don't buy ebooks, you rent them via GigaOM
• Ernie the Author
  • My Book On "Blogging For Lawyers" Is Ready For Order via Ernie the Attorney
• Campaigns and social media
  • Social media battle: Obama engages more voters despite aggressive Romney debate strategy via SF Gate
  • The social-media presidential campaign: election by Twitterverse via The Seattle Times
  • Mourdock's abortion comments spark Senate debate, social media chatter via Pal-Item.com
  • Obama Winning Social Media, If #Hashtagwars Really Matter via Bloomberg
• Party like it's 2004!
  • Rick Klau Knows A Hot Political Candidate via Ernie the Attorney
• Google Ventures
  • Where Google Ventures Is Searching Now via The Wall Street Journal
  • In a valley of VC clones, Google Ventures does more than just write checks via Venture Beat
• Phone v. Car
  • Your Smartphone Is Going To Replace Your Car via Business Insider
• Most of Sony PSN case dismissed
  • Judge: Sony didn't promise "perfect security," isn't liable for PSN hack via ArsTechnica

Tip of the Week

• Twitter Rant About Employer Might Mean No Unemployment Benefits
  • Employee's Twitter Rant Means He Doesn't Get Unemployment Benefits--Burns v. UCBR via Eric Goldman

Resource of the Week

• Poynter on Social Media and the election
  • How to keep social media reaction in perspective when covering the elections via Poynter

Sponsor

• ShareFile.com

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