An eLawyering Drawback

Once you've shown how easy it is to be an eLawyer, clients will soon realize it's just as easy to get eLawyers from another country. Thanks to Legal Blog Watch for the offshore legal services updates.

My comments on Gates' take on IP, Outsourcing

MSFT's next gen of Shared Source Licenses

Why a law degree may be more of a prerequisite for corporate developers than a computer science degree:

Microsoft supports the right of a developer to make use of any license and highly recommends that you get appropriate legal advice regarding your choice of source code license.

At least the choice has been narrowed down to three:

• Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL)
• Microsoft Community License (Ms-CL)
• Microsoft Reference License (Ms-RL)
  

It's Cyberweek for the Internet Bar

The University of Massachusetts Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution and the Internetbar are hosting their 8th Cyberweek, a virtual bar meeting to discuss online legal issues. Topics include eLawyering, Ethics, and Online Dispute Resolution (ODR). Now that's my kind of bar meeting!

Academic Legal Blogging #2

BlawgReview 26 mentions Jack Balkins' post, More Proof that Blogging Can Be a Form of Scholarship, which took me to the UChicago faculty's foray into blogging (on TypePad, no less). I, of course, am glad to see more faculty taking the opportunity to share their latest thoughts online without necessarily posting a draft paper for comments on SSRN. I wonder if Washington & Lee's legal journal metrics will morph into some "Lexorati" for blawg citations/links? Would faculty find that any more reliable than the SSRN download stats?

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