California Paralegal MCLE Compliance Deadline | Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) in California, MCLE Los Angeles, CLE Orange County, Irvine & San Francisco

California Paralegal MCLE Compliance Deadline | Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) in California, MCLE Los Angeles, CLE Orange County, Irvine & San Francisco

California Paralegals can complete their entire MCLE requirement online for only $130.

Google LatLong: Changing World, Changing Maps

Google LatLong: Changing World, Changing Maps

Google LatLong: Changing World, Changing Maps

Google LatLong: Changing World, Changing Maps

Google Removes 'Timeline' Display Option From News Archive Results; Clarifies Dates Assigned to Results | Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) in California, MCLE Los Angeles, CLE Orange County, Irvine & San Francisco

Google Removes 'Timeline' Display Option From News Archive Results; Clarifies Dates Assigned to Results | Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) in California, MCLE Los Angeles, CLE Orange County, Irvine & San Francisco

Internet Archive Increases Delay in Posting Pages to Collection | Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) in California, MCLE Los Angeles, CLE Orange County, Irvine & San Francisco

Internet Archive Increases Delay in Posting Pages to Collection | Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) in California, MCLE Los Angeles, CLE Orange County, Irvine & San Francisco

Google Maps Offers Oblique Views to Aerial Images

Google Maps has made aerial images of select ground features (building, landmarks, etc.) taken at a 45°angle available to all users. The announcement was made by Randy Wilson, of Google's Imagery Team, in a post to the official Google Maps blog - Google LatLong: Changing your perspective, once again....

Currently, this 45° imagery is available only in about a dozen-and a-half locations worldwide (mostly in Europe. Available U.S. locations are concentrated on the West Coast, with most of them in California. (Interestingly, while Santa Clara and San Jose in the Silicon Valley are included, Google's home base of Mountain View is not.

The vast majority of aerial images in Google Maps remain the familiar directly-overhead shots.

Google Voice for Everyone in the United States | No Invitation Required

Official Google Blog: Google Voice for everyone

This morning, Google announced that its Google Voice service is now available to anyone in the United States. Google Voice is Google’s free telephone service offering a wide range of calling and voicemail services. Its best-known feature is probably the ability to simultaneously forward incoming calls to multiple phone numbers, like a switchboard. You can configure your Google Voice number to ring your home phone, office phone and mobile phone all at the same time. This way, wherever you are, you can get the call, or you can choose to let it go to voice mail.

Google Voice also gives you an easy way to conduct conference calls. You simply have the participating individuals call your Google Voice number at the prescribed time and then use the service’s call waiting feature to add each caller to the conference. The service was born with Google’s 2007 acquisition of telephone management startup GrandCentral. It was relaunched as Google Voice in March 2009. A full list of Google Voice features can be found at http://linkon.in/dsIwgh.

Additionally, according to a Twitter post by Dave Girouard, Google's Vice President of Enterprise Sales, Google Voice will also soon be integrated into Google Apps.

Previously, Google Voice was available to non-education users only by invitation. (We know of one attorney so keen to use the tools available in Google Voice that she purchased an invitation for $18.00 on e-Bay. She thought it was well worth the price.)

 

LegalTech West Coast Returns to Los Angeles | Registration Discounts Available

On June 23 and 24, 2010, ALM’s LegalTech, the largest annual gathering of legal professionals on the West Coast, returns to Los Angeles. This year marks the conference's fourth consecutive year at the Los Angeles Convention Center in downtown Los Angeles.

LegalTech is the one of the largest legal technology events of the year, and highly regarded among those in the legal industry. With conferences and trade shows in both New York and Los Angeles, LegalTech is a key resource for law firms and legal departments to get hands-on practical information for improving their law practice management.

All readers of this newsletter can attend the exhibit hall free of charge by selecting the "Exhibits Only, Keynotes, Emerging Technologies, SuperSessions & General Sessions" option on the online registration form. (https://secure.lawcatalog.com/almevents/almevents_registration.cfm?seminarid=1225&pregister=1) This complimentary pass includes entry to both Keynote Sessions, afternoon general sessions, SuperSessions and Emerging Technology sessions as well as the exhibit hall to peruse the latest in technological advances. Those with questions or comments regarding the 2010 LegalTech West Coast Conference can contact ALM Events at (212) 457-7905.

Additional registration information and the complete conference schedule is available online at http://www.legaltechshow.com/r5/cob_page.asp?category_id=64210&initial_file=cob_page-ltech.asp

Internet For Lawyers (IFL) subscribers can also claim an additional 20% discount on full conference registration by selecting the "MasterPass Discounted for Association Members" option on the registration page (a $170 savings), and adding in the priority code IFL. Produced by ALM Events, LegalTech is the number one resource for law firms and legal departments to get hands-on practical information for improving their law practice management. The conference provides an in-depth look at what the technological world has in store for you and your practice, and it offers an expansive exhibit floor with the most extensive gathering of innovative products designed to meet your current and future technology needs.

This year's conference will offer up to 13 CLE credits, 1.5 of them being ethics credits as well as featuring two keynote addresses: "Privacy, Security Breaches & Accountability," presented by Los Angeles Times Business Columnist David Lazarus; and "Breakthrough Collaboration & Cost Savings," presented by Microsoft, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel Erich Andersen. Other faculty at this year’s event includes the legal industry’s top technologists, including Texas attorney/technologist Craig Ball; and California attorney Browning Marean, among others.

Google Allows Further Customization of Search Homepage

In what appears to be a tip of the hat (and a bit of one-upsmanship) to Bing's image-rich search page, Google has announced the ability personalize your default view of the Google search page with your own photo. While Bing has become known for the daily rotation of lush images (and the informative annotations that accompany them) on its homepage, users have no control over the selection of those images.

With this new feature, you can select any image from your computer, your Picasa image storage account, or any public Picasa galleries to serve as the background for your Google search page.

In an Official Google Blog post, Marisa Meyer, Google's VP of Search Products & User Experience, indicated that the feature would be available via a "link in the lower left-hand corner of Google.com." We have not yet seen this feature in any any of the browser/operating system combinations we've tried. The blog post also indicated that the feature would be rolled out to "users in the U.S. over the next few days."

Google Announces Google Buzz Social Networking Tool

At a live press event at its Mountain View, CA headquarters on the morning of February 9, 2010, Google announced its latest foray into Social Media - Google Buzz. Bradley Horowitz, Google's VP of Product Marketing opened the event by describing Google Buzz as "a Google approach to sharing." Google Buzz incorporates many features of popular social media sites like status updates (Twitter, Facebook), location-based updates (Foursquare, Yelp), and de facto ratings for updates via "likes" and comments (Digg, Facebook).

For more details, see our overview of Google Buzz's features and functions at http://bit.ly/ckzP12.