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60 Sites in 60 Minutes

Wrap up your ABA TECHSHOW experience by attending this perennial favorite, which is always one of the best attended sessions. Our panelists will review the hottest new websites for lawyers and legal professionals - great web resources on legal technology, practice management, research, ethics, and they'll toss in some practical and fun stuff, too.

60 Sites in 60 Minutes 2007 Complete Listing

  Yes, we can count, at least on our good days. But we're generous spirits, so we've given you bonus sites.

Useful Legal Stuff

  1. morepartnerincome A fantastic website/blog updated every day with a variety of information related to increasing law firm partner income and business intelligence tools.
  2. iStockphoto Jazz up your digital presentations. Upgrade from ClipArt to high quality photos. Over 1 million royalty free stock photos to choose from at very reasonable rates. Alternatively, if you are a budding photographer, submit your best photos here for purchase.
  3. Yahoo! Mobile Wi-Fi On the road and need to connect to the office quickly? Find the nearest WiFi hotspot in a snap.
  4. Federal Justice Center—Historic Federal Courthouses A terrific site of historic courthouses from around the country. Many of the photos are from the National Archives. A great place to browse.
  5. Acrobat for Legal Professionals Blog An entire blog devoted to using Adobe Acrobat in a legal environment. Rick Borestein's blog is becoming THE go to place for questions law firms have about their digital documents.
  6. Planet PDF For the 'up to the minute' news on all things PDF. But don't miss out on their bulleting board forum at forum.planetpdf.com/webboard/wbpx.dll/~planetpdfforum with a special section dedicated to questions regarding the legal industry. Some of the biggest names in the business monitor this forum and answer questions.
  7. Justia Blawg Search A great site for finding the legal blog you need - over 1000 legal blogs are categorized!
  8. Law Memo (Supreme Court Times) Covering all U.S. Supreme Court cases, this new feature compiles information and commentary into a resource that houses virtually everything you might want to know about a case. The front page lists all cases on the court's docket. Each case is linked to its own omnibus page. The page includes a plain-English summary of the case, the questions presented and links to blog commentary, the lower-court opinions, the oral argument transcript, all briefs, the decision when issued, counsel for each party and outside resources. (Thanks to Bob Ambrogi for providing the description for this site.)
  9. TrialJuries—Online Jury Review TrialJuries helps lawyers submit their cases and have them "decided" by online jurors similar to those who would serve on an actual jury at trial. To use the service, a lawyer submits a written statement of each side's case. Alternatively, the lawyer may submit an audio or video argument. Exhibits may also be added. Then the lawyer submits up to five verdicts and five feedback questions using an automated "form builder" and sends the case to the jury. Mock jurors review the submissions and answer the questions. When their review is done, the lawyer receives their verdict and can review their comments and feedback. A demo is available at the site. The cost to submit a case is $1,500. With audio, the cost is $2,000, and with video, $2,500. (Thanks to Bob Ambrogi for providing the description for this site.)
  10. LAW.COM’s Small Firm Business It's hard for a small firm lawyer to keep up with everything. Here is a content rich site to help you stay current with developments in technology, marketing and law firm management. They even have an RSS feed for you.
  11. ABA Solosez Popular threads on Solosez. Even if you don't have time to get up with a listserv, you might want to drop and look at this site from time to time - you might find an entire thread on just the subject that interests you.
  12. Microsoft Office Online Microsoft Office makes all lawyers crazy. Find help, how-tos, tips and tricks at this very useful site.
  13. THOMAS (Library of Congress) This is an oldie but goodie and it just keeps getting better. I've always used this site to watch Congress and the progress of legislation, but the site now carries links to the Constitution, access to Committee reports, treaties, the U.S. Code, government legal resources, and even webcasts from the Library of Congress.
  14. Axsen Legal Web Design and Internet Marketing for Attorneys and Legal Offices Still don't have a firm website? Choose from a variety of templates and finally get that website up. Comeon, what are you waiting for?
  15. Underneath Their Robes Blog News, gossip, and colorful commentary about the federal judiciary.
  16. Appellate Law & Practice Blog A blog devoted to appellate law and advocacy.
  17. The Beckner-Posner Blog A blog by Gary Becker, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Chicago; and Richard Posner, Judge, United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
  18. My Shingle Blog A blog by and for solo and small practitioners by ABA Solosezer Carolyn Elefant.
  19. Thompson Publishing Regulatory Compliance Information One stop shopping for those in need of all state and federal regulations. Pick the topic of your choice and itwill search across all relevant regulations!
  20. LoJack for Laptops In a world where laptops are stolen nearly as often as handbags, this site will sell you a piece of software that will allow your laptop to “phone home” if it is pilfered.
  21. Internet Marketing Attorney—Micah’s Nifty 50 A great collection of ideas to improve your firm’s website.
  22. Mail it Safe – Finally, an easy way to send encrypted email, integrating seamlessly with Outlook.
  23. Start Stop Dictation and Transcription Systems All things digital dictation. Including a great guide for the legal profession about how digital dictation can successfully be implemented in a law firm.
  24. TechnoLawyer Another oldie but goodie that keeps getting better. A low volume email subscription newsletter filling you in on all things Techno-Lawyer!

Useful Personal Stuff

  1. Barefoot Lass’s Stain Removal Page Excellent site on stain removal. Every kind of imaginable stain, and how to get it out. If the guys give us grief for this site, we’re going to throw a glass of red wine on their white shirts.
  2. dodgeball.com :: mobile social software Do you have someone that you keep trying to hook up with but keep having trouble coordinating a time and place? Register with dodgeball, and get text messages regarding current location on your phone when you are physically close by.
  3. Podbop Type in your city and get a list of upcoming live music events in your area complete with sample MP3s of the performer's music.
  4. Last.fm The Social Music Revolution Download a free plug-in for iTunes at this site, and it will take note of every song that you play at least halfway through. Then it compares your tastes with those of like-minded listeners and makes recommendations that you can hear on the site.
  5. Where’s George? tracks dollar bills. A great site to visit with kids or grandkids - shows them how BIG the world is, and how fast money travels.
  6. Worldometers – real time world statistics Watch live, the annual statistics for such things as world population, government spending, energy consumption, mortality rates, etc. Fascinating stuff.
  7. Kids’ Tools for Searching the Internet A great site for kids - a good and SAFE gateway to research on the Internet.
  8. Joe’s Goals – Free Online Habit Tracker Do your goals just slip away from you day by day? Hold yourself accountable! Have as many goals as you want - and chastise yourself for cheating (ah, those waistline bulging restaurant meals - bad, bad bad!)
  9. The Free Information Society—Historical Sounds in MP3 Format Some of the great audio moments from history in MP3 format. Remember Spiro Agnew on hippies and yippies? You're right, some things are best forgotten.
  10. The World Clock Meeting Planner The world clock meeting planner will help you arrange a meeting between folks around the globe without getting anyone up in the middle of the night.
  11. 72hours.org—Are you prepared? San Francisco has done a bang up job of compiling a simple guide to common disasters and the questions they give rise to. Is your family prepared for floods, terrorist attacks, or long term power outages? An excellent starting point.
  12. howjsay.com—English Pronouncing Dictionary Don't know how to pronounce something? Help is at hand. Imagine yourself coming from a foreign land and trying to tell your lawyer what you think of him. But how do you pronounce "nincompoop?"
  13. Concert Vault – Where Live Music Lives The best collection of live concerts from the 60s and 70s anywhere. A sure-fire relief from that boring legal opinion you're working on. And don't bogie that joint.
  14. OAG—Who flies where? OK, so some of us have an allegiance to just one airline, and some of us just want to get there the fastest way possible. This site shows you who flies direct to where, and includes airlines not on the big travel sites like Southwest, JetBlue and AirTran.
  15. Social Explorer Developed at Queens College of the City University of New York, the site's objective is "to help visually analyze and understand the demography of the U.S. through the use of interactive maps and data reports." The site features a series of interactive census maps using U.S. census data back to 1940. These maps provide visual displays of census data for the entire country or any location within it for dozens of categories and subcategories. Use it, for example, to see how racial groups are concentrated within the U.S., to compare income levels, or to find where particular industries are concentrated. You can also create slideshows showing movement of data across locations or time periods. (Thanks to Bob Ambrogi for providing the description for this site.)
  16. SeatGuru Everything you want to know about the airplane seat that your butt will be in, including where the power ports and bathrooms are. All your airlines and all their planes are here, including the in-flight amenities. Sweet site.
  17. The World Time Server Get time zones, converters, etc. As we all become increasingly more global citizens, take note of whether your business contacts or personal friends are even awake before you try to call them. You can also use their handy scheduler to try to find an global time that works for everyone to attend a meeting.
  18. National Hurricane Center Katrina - enough said?
  19. Faxing in Windows XP Okay, it's a bit dated, but did you know that if your Windows XP machine has a modem, you can use it as your fax machine? Handles both incoming and outgoing. See these instructions on how to turn on the Fax Console. (Note in Windows VISTA this feature morphs a bit to become the Windows Fax and Scan.)
  20. Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide Blog Tips and tricks to make the geek in all of us happy. For example, create an entry in your cell phone contacts named ICE (in case of emergency), for those well, you know, emergencies.
  21. APMStudio Convert VHS tapes to DVD for $9.95 each!

Off-the-Wall Stuff

  1. Airport Security Game You can play an online game where you are an airport security agent confiscating unallowed items, like pants, shoes, cowboy hats. For a brief moment in your life, you are completely empowered.
  2. Dumb.com - a vast collection of dumb things - signs, laws, quotes, videos, criminals, songs, etc. You could spend hours on this site!
  3. Mark’s Apology Note Generator The apology note generator! Yep, sometimes it is tough to just say "I'm Sorry". Here you will find a creative, easy to use apology form letter.
  4. Killer Fonts President Font Collection write like a dead president - really!
  5. the Degree Congluence Project There are 64,442 intersections of latitude meeting longitude - and the project here is to get a photo of each one. Some beautiful pictures here!
  6. The Virtual Toilet Paper Museum Inspired by Jerry Seinfeld's statement that there oughta be a toilet paper museum – now there is! Answers that ever burning question - should the tp roll over or under?
  7. theplumber.com – Where is the toilet/bathroom? In every language, the question "Where is the toilet" is translated. A must visit site for world travelers.
  8. Idomsite.com Why do we say what we say? When you tell someone not to look a gift horse in the mouth, do you know where that saying originated? All your answers here.
  9. youparklikeanasshole It's annoyed us all. See some outlandish photos, and download some infraction notices so you can express your humble opinion to the guy who doesn't know how to park.
  10. Dark Roasted Blend: The Most Dangerous Roads in the World Blog You think the roads in D.C. are bad? You haven't seen anything yet!
  11. Write Like a Babylonian Everyone, at least once before they die, should see their name as a Babylonian would have written it. Put it your name and initials and see what your name looks like in cuneiform. If you enter all your family and friends too, you have too much time on your hands.
  12. Viral Video Chart The viral video chart will show you the 20 hottest videos on a given day. When I looked, there was a video showing the difference between how men and women shower. There's a difference? Did I miss a biology class?
  13. YouMail Record the perfect cell phone greeting for everyone who regularly calls you, based on the caller ID."Hi Frank. I told you we were through and not to call me. You're a worm Frank. A cheat and a jerk. I'm sending you to voicemail now Frank."
  14. Warning Sign Generator Been dying to generate your own warning signs? Everything you need is here.
  15. Make your own Magazine cover! You don’t need to wait to be on the cover of Rolling Stone. Beat them to the punch and make your own magazine cover.
  16. woot! It's now a noun, a verb and an online store/community where they sell one off the wall item a day and everybody comments on the item. No biggie you say, but the product descriptions are a riot and well worth the read. If you hit a wootoff, you could be hooked.
  17. Jellyfish.com: smack shopping! Welcome to Smack Deals. Where every day at noon Central time you can actually play an online game show where you try to guess the percentage rebate that someone will pay for an item. Winning guess is declared a Guru and gets to spin a wheel for prizes. The Internet's First Live Shopping Game Show.
  18. My 50 things to do in my lifetime Have you ever promised yourself you would learn to play an instrument, test drive a Ferrari, or simply tidy the garage? Well don't put them off any longer. With My50 you can make a list of things to do before you die - your life ambitions, goals and targets.
  19. New York Public Library Digital Gallery The New York Public Library Digital Gallery. 520,000 images. Can't make the physical trek to the library to view the collection. Check it out here. NYPL provides free and open access to its Digital Gallery and images may be freely downloaded for personal, research and study purposes only. Wonderful for those last minute grade school history projects.
  20. The Human Clock Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care? Fun and innovative ways to pass a 6 minute increment.
  21. Office Nickname Generator Office Nickname Generator. See what they call you when you are not around!
  22. cheddarvision.tv Ever had one of those days when your brain is toast, you just want to veg out to something completely mindless? We have the perfect site for you, one where you can seat peacefully in front of your monitor and - yes - watch live as a brick of cheddar cheese ages. Just do it.

Bonus: Legal Blog Sites (ABA TECHSHOW speakers and various friends)

  1. I Heart Tech (Adriana Linares)
  2. Inter Alia (Tom Mighel)
  3. Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips
  4. DennisKennedy.com
  5. Reid My Blog! (Reid Trautz)
  6. ABA TECHSHOW.Blog
  7. Ross Ipsa Loquitur (Ross Kodner)
  8. tins (Rick Klau)
  9. The Invent Blog (Stephen Nipper’s Patent Blog)
  10. Acrobat for Legal Professionals (Rick Borstein)
  11. the [non]billable hour (Matt Homan)
  12. Law Practice Management (Ellen Freedman)
  13. Barchives: The Blog for Bars (Toby Brown/Lincoln Mead)

Bonus: Free Form Sites

  1. Florida Supreme Court Public Information
  2. Abstract Appeal Blog by Matt Conigliaro (devoted to Florida Law & The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals)
  3. AllLaw-Legal Information and Law Portal
  4. lexisONE LexisNexis Research for Small Firms
  5. Legal Forms from LawDepot.com
  6. Free Legal Forms
  7. Legaldocs ….. Legal Documents Online
  8. FindLaw Forms

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