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After Hours: Food is the Anytime Gift – Gifts That Just Keep on Giving
This Halloween, instead of dressing up, cranking up the sound effects recordings and handing out candy bars to kids brave enough to approach my door, I’m divulging hard-learned practical tips on a self-employment panel at the Association of Food Journalists conference in Boston. If you’re thinking of doing consulting, starting a business, or looking for ways to earn some extra income and would like to receive announcements of my self-employment tele-seminars, send e-mail to me and I’ll put you on the list. The next phone seminar is Sunday, November 16 at 5 PM EST.
Burney's Legal Tech Reviews – Presentations Without a Laptop
Brett Burney is the Legal Technology Support Coordinator at Thompson Hine in Cleveland, Ohio. He regularly reviews products for Law.com’s Automated Lawyer and Law Office Computing Magazine. Feel free to e-mail Brett with your legal-technology questions at [email protected].
FOIA Facts: Inside the Process of Preparing a Vaughn Index
Scott A. Hodes is a sole practitioner in Washington, D.C., practicing Information and Privacy Law. Mr. Hodes assists clients in gaining access to government records under the FOIA, Privacy Act and other federal agency access provisions. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Hodes was an attorney at the Department of Justice for over a decade. He served in the FBI’s Freedom of Information/Privacy Act Section from 1998 until 2002 as the Acting Chief of that Section’s Litigation Unit. Mr. Hodes served at the Department of Justice’s Office of Information and Privacy from 1991 until 1998. His website is InfoPrivacylaw.com , and he is a member of the DC and Maryland bars.
Notes from the Technology Trenches – Lexis and Westlaw Changes and Wishlist
Subjects: LEXIS, Notes from the Technology Trenches, WestlawWisdom from the Grammar Goddess – A Little Bit of "This," a Little Bit of "That"
Diane Sandford is the Director of Library Services for the Washington, DC office of Fried, Frank, Harris Shriver & Jacobson . She has many years of experience in editing and as a grammar expert within the firm.
After Hours: Bakers Best
Subjects: After Hours, FoodBurney's Legal Tech Reviews – Display-to-Go Adaptor, NTI Backup Now, BackUp MyPC and Retrospect
Burney’s Legal Tech Reviews-Display-to-Go Adaptor, NTI Backup Now, BackUp MyPC and Retrospect
By Brett Burney
FOIA Facts: Privacy Under the FOIA vs. Historians/Journalists Need for Access to Data
Scott A. Hodes discusses how without a proof of death, or an authorization from a person, the government will deny a FOIA request about a third party, and will withhold third party names in records it actually processes.
The Internet Roundtable #37: Are Blogs Right For Law Firm
Dennis Kennedy (DK): Last month we explained blogs and how to get started, but there’s more. If that were all that’s going on with blogs, I’d be saying what’s the big deal? How are blogs any different from web sites? Aren’t email newsletters a better vehicle for content delivery? There is much more to blogging and this brings us to my favorite aspects of blogs and why I do think that they are changing the Internet: the world of newsfeeds, RSS feeds, XML feeds and news aggregators. We have two special guests who will help us understand blogging.