Law Firm Website SEO 101: Tags, Keywords, Links and More

Last week we went over the basics of SEO and why you should implement SEO as part of an effective online media strategy. Now, we're getting into the nitty gritty of SEO: keywords, page tags, links and content....



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Deutscher EDV-Gerichtstag 2013: Tweets and Resources

Deutscher EDV-Gerichtstag 2013 was held 25-27 September 2013 in Saarbrücken.

The theme of the conference was: Vom elektronischen Rechtsverkehr zur elektronischen Justiz?

Click here for the conference program.

The Twitter hashtags for the conference were #edvgt2013 and #edvgt

Click here for archived Twitter tweets from the conference, in .csv format.

Posts summarizing the conference panels and papers are available at LAWgical .

Filed under: Applications, Conference resources, Tweet archives Tagged: #edvgt2013, Court technology, Deutscher EDV-Gerichtstag, Deutscher EDV-Gerichtstag 2013, EDVGT, eJustice, Judicial technology, Law practice technology, Legal informatics conferences



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Papers on Legal Data and Text Analysis @ Text as Data 2013

Several papers on the analysis of legal data or legal texts or concerning legal communication or decision making or were presented at NDATAD 2013: New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data Workshop 2013 , held 27-28 September at the London School of Economics:

• Michael Z. Gill and Andrew B. Hall: How Judicial Identity Changes The Text Of Legal Rulings


• Valentin Gold, Katharina Holzinger, and Christian Rohrdantz: Towards Automating the Measurement of Deliberative Communication


• Benjamin E. Lauderdale and Tom S. Clark: Scaling Politically Meaningful Dimensions Using Texts and Votes


• Hossein Rahmani and Christine Arnold: PolicyMiner: From Oysters to Pearls


• Douglas R. Rice and Christopher Zorn: Corpus-Based Dictionaries for Sentiment Analysis of Specialized Vocabularies


• John Wilkerson, David Smith, and Nick Stramp: Tracing the Flow of Policy Ideas in Legislatures: A Text Reuse Approach


• Ken Younge: PiCloud: A simple approach to cloud computing

The Twitter hashtag for the conference was #TextasData

Joshua Tucker has a new post about the conference: The rise of the machines in the study of politics: 5 things I learned from studies using #TextAsData .

Filed under: Applications, Conference Announcements, Conference papers, Conference proceedings, Conference reports, Research findings, Slides Tagged: Analysis of patent procedure, Legal data analysis, Legal deliberation, Legal sentiment analysis, Legal text analysis, Legislative deliberation, Legislative information systems, NDATAD, NDATAD 2013, New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data Workshop, New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data Workshop 2013, Parliamentary deliberation, Patent analysis, Patent similarity, Policy diffusion and legal texts, Policy diffusion and legislation, Text analysis of court decisions, Text analysis of judicial decisions, Text analysis of legislation, Text analysis of patents, Text as Data, Text as Data 2013



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Law Firm Website SEO 101: Why You Need SEO and Google

Earlier this week we talked about law firm website basics such as domain name, design and content. Now we get to the fun stuff -- SEO, or search engine optimization. Why SEO Is Important Key to SEO strategy is making...



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5 Tips to Get You Through an All-Nighter at Your Firm

Need tips to get you through an all-nighter? Ah, the all-nighter. Despite not being in college anymore, they are often unfortunately still necessary in the legal sector. The truth is, we have clients, our job gets difficult, and the tasks...



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What Do Solos Need to Do to Prepare for Obamacare?

You'd think, being a solo practitioner, that you wouldn't have to do anything to prepare for the upcoming Obamacare deadlines. Think again. Though your mandated duties, per the Affordable Care Act, are minimal as a small business/sole practitioner, there are...



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26-27 September: LVI 2013: Law via the Internet Conference: Links and Resources

LVI 2013: Law via the Internet Conference, the conference of the free-access-to-law community, is being held 26-27 September in Jersey, Channel Islands.

Click here for the conference program, which includes abstracts and links to slides.

The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #lvi2013

The conference Twitter account is @JerseyLVI2013

Ann Priestley is archiving the Twitter tweets from the conference at Danegeld , and is maintaining a visualization of the tweets.

Filed under: Abstracts, Conference Announcements, Conference resources Tagged: Digital legal publishing, Free access to law, Law via the Internet Conference, Legal educational technology, Legal elearning, Legal informatics conferences, Legal information behavior, Legal information institutes, Legal instructional technology, Legal knowledge management, Legal knowledge representation, Legal metadata, Legal semantic web, LVI, LVI 2013, lvi2013, Online legal education, Online legal publishing, Privacy in court records, Public access to legal information, Semantic Web and law



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5 Things to Help You Get Motivated and Productive on Wednesday

It's Wednesday. Has anyone ever written a song about this drag of a day? The songs don't say "easy as [Wednesday] morning," and no one "gets down on [Wednesday]." Wednesday is the most hated day of the week for a...



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Carver and Lissner: Free Law Project

Free Law Project has been launched by Professor Dr. Brian Carver of the University of California, Berkeley, and Michael Lissner, MIMS, of CourtListener.

They have a new post about the project: Non-Profit “Free Law Project” Formed to Create an Open Legal Ecosystem .

The project is on Twitter at @FreeLawProject

Here is the description:

Free Law Project is a California non-profit public benefit corporation whose specific purposes are primarily:

• to provide free, public, and permanent access to primary legal materials on the Internet for educational, charitable, and scientific purposes to the benefit of the general public and the public interest;


• to develop, implement, and provide public access to technologies useful for legal research;


• to create an open ecosystem for legal research and materials;


• to support academic research on related technologies, corpora, and legal systems; and


• to carry on other charitable activities associated with these purposes, including, but not limited to, publications, meetings, conferences, trainings, educational seminars, and the issuance of grants and other financial support to educational institutions, foundations, and other organizations exclusively for educational, charitable, and scientific purposes as allowed by law.

Free Law Project is pursuing recognition as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

Current activities of Free Law Project are as follows:

We seek to collect and freely distribute online all United States court opinions, both state and federal, both historical and current. Our collection of current opinions is accomplished through our Juriscraper project. Online distribution of the opinions occurs through our CourtListener project.

We develop technologies for use in legal research, such as a daily alerting service, advanced search capabilities, and a citator. These tools are deployed at CourtListener.

We collaborate with others with similar goals and license all the software we develop under free software licenses. Source code is available for both Juriscraper and CourtListener.

We support academic research on search technologies and provide free bulk downloads of our entire corpus for use in academic research or for any other purpose.

We lead workshops, present at conferences, and hold other events to educate others about our work, how to get involved, and the underlying challenges facing the free acces to law movement.

The Co-Founders of Free Law Project:

Michael Lissner is a co-founder of Free Law Project and lead developer of its software projects, CourtListener and Juriscraper. He graduated from UC Berkeley’s School of Information and is passionate about bringing greater access to primary legal materials, about how technology can replace old legal models, and about open source, community-driven approaches to legal research.

Brian W. Carver is a co-founder of Free Law Project and Assistant Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information where he does research on and teaches about intellectual property law and cyberlaw. He is also passionate about the public’s access to the law. In 2009 and 2010 he advised Michael Lissner on the creation of CourtListener. After Michael’s graduation he and Brian continued working on the site and have grown the database of opinions to include over 900,000 documents. In 2011 and 2012, Brian advised I School Masters students Rowyn McDonald and Karen Rustad on the creation of a legal citator built on the CourtListener database. During 2012 and 2013 he collaborated with computer scientists at UC Santa Cruz on the enhancement of the search capabilities of CourtListener. [...]

For more details, please see the post and the project’s Website.

HT @FreeLawProject

Filed under: Applications, Projects, Technology developments, Technology tools Tagged: Brian Carver, Court decisions, Court information systems, Court Listener, Free access to law, Free Law Project, Judicial decisions, Judicial information systems, Juriscraper, Legal open government data, Michael Lissner, Open court data, Open judicial data, Open legal data, Public access to legal information



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