Author: Rick Klau

Missed this one on the first go-around, but just stumbled upon it this morning. It seems that Philadelphia-based firm Pepper Hamilton issued a subpoena to a company in Detroit. The subpoena came from the Philadelphia office – and the lawyers found out after the fact that the company was a client of (you ready for…

Yesterday’s NY Times had a good profile on Howard Dean and his presidential ambitions. “The disadvantage is all the other guys in the race on the Democratic side have national fund-raising organizations; I don’t,” Mr. Dean said at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan the other day, between fund-raising meetings and speeches. “The big advantage is I’m…

Marriott to add Wi-Fi in 400 hotels. Service to be available in hotel obbies, meeting, rooms, restaurants [InfoWorld: Top News] I’ve been in the process of checking out Marriott. I’m a Hilton Diamond member (means I’ve stayed in more than 28 Hilton Hotels each of the past two years) but received an invitation to try…

If this weren’t so close to reality, it would be hysterical. Instead, I feel like sobbing uncontrollably. (OK, that might be overstating it a bit. But not by much.) The Onion: Bill of Rights Pared Down to Six: “We’re not taking away personal rights; we’re increasing personal security,” Ashcroft said. “By allowing for greater government…

Internal Marketing of Knowledge Management. In Beyond the Newsletter: Leveraging Technology to Market the Library, Catherine Sanders Reach, a research specialist at the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center, writes about internal marketing practices including branding, logos, slogans, and marketing plans for law firm libraries. Although the focus is on the law firm library, the same…

In the “aren’t you glad this isn’t your mother in law” category, check out “Curious Mom Faces Credit Report Trial“ at Law.com: A Minnesota mother, a private investigation firm and a collection agency may have gone too far in performing a background check on the woman’s prospective son-in-law when they obtained a report on his…

I referenced Spinal Tap yesterday in a follow-up to the post about a woman unsuccessfully walking through a metal detector. Well, turns out the reference was timely: National Congressional Librarian James Billington announced today that Spinal Tap will be added to the National Film Registry, ensuring that the film “will be preserved for all time.“…

From Slate, an article about Vonage, a new entrant in the Internet telephony market. The difference between these guys and the other players? Vonage lets you plug a regular telephone into your broadband connection – and voila – dial tone. Flat rate $40/month for unlimited calling, call waiting, voicemail, caller ID. On its own, that’s…

Another item from the archives – this one from late November in Slate. Paul Boutin, a technology writer for Wired, Salon, Slate, etc., suggests that the last thing that should happen is for the geeks to play politics – they should continue to play the game on their own terms. Titled Silicon Valley vs. K…

As bad as my travel has been lately, I must confess that I’ve never come close to having a day go this badly while on the road: WINNIPEG, Canada (Reuters) — It took an airport metal detector to give a Canadian woman a clue to why she was suffering from persistent stomach aches four months…