The skinny on iPad mini for attorneys 
By:
John Stodder
Published: December 17, 2012
Lawyers reviewing the latest gadget released by Apple – the junior-sized iPad mini – are focusing on its size, shape, weight and usability, elements of what tech-geeks call its “form factor.”
Debate coverage: Public opinion, budget woes drive Romney ‘switcheroo’ on foreign policy
By:
John Stodder
Published: October 25, 2012
Tags: debates, Mitt Romney, President Obama, presidential race
The return of the man former President Bill Clinton nicknamed “old moderate Mitt” to this week’s foreign policy debate reflects the climate of public opinion and the realities of a $16 trillion debt load as much as it demonstrates Mitt Romney’s presidential ambitions.
Benghazi attack: Ready for a replay Monday night
By:
John Stodder
Published: October 22, 2012
Tags: Mitt Romney, President Obama, presidential race
The last presidential debate of 2012 was supposed to be a sideshow.
Through summer and into autumn, the campaign’s script was all about the domestic economy, so this third face-to-face between President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney sounded like a snoozer on foreign policy.
Debate coverage: A fact-checker joins the debate
By:
John Stodder
Published: October 18, 2012
Tags: debates, Mitt Romney, President Obama, presidential race
The toil fact-checking requires is paying off.
No doubt chastened by post-first-debate reports that they have been fibbing, President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney mostly told the truth during the Oct. 16 debate, although the fact-checkers criticized them for leaving out the context that can turn a black or white truth gray.
Debate coverage: Decline of middle class drives campaign rhetoric
By:
John Stodder
Published: October 16, 2012
Tags: Mitt Romney, President Obama, presidential race
As they prepared for tonight’s presidential debate, President Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney no doubt have had an image seared onto their brains, and perhaps onto their note cards: The scowling American middle class is sitting there, restlessly watching, drumming fingers on the table, waiting to hear the next class-saving promise.
The debates: Voters weigh candidates’ demeanor and ‘likability’
By:
John Stodder
Published: October 15, 2012
Tags: President Obama, presidential race
After two of the four debates of the 2012 presidential season, what is most striking is how much of the response, as expressed in mainstream news coverage and social media, focuses on body language, demeanor, matters of etiquette, and whether a candidate was likable.
An assessment of Obama’s claim that Romney lied about his tax plan in first debate
By:
John Stodder
Published: October 10, 2012
Tags: President Obama, presidential race
In the aftermath of the first 2012 presidential debate, President Obama and his supporters took every opportunity to explain that while the president admittedly had an off-night, the debate’s real story was that his opponent, Gov. Mitt Romney, was untruthful about his own proposals, particularly his tax cut plan.
First presidential debate exasperates fact-checkers: A round up
By:
John Stodder
Published: October 4, 2012
Tags: debates, presidential race
Instantaneous results, a feature of presidential-campaign debates for decades, have reached a new level in 2012. Now, instead of merely declaring a winner and a loser seconds after the candidates’ final handshake, close observers of the debates announce which one was telling more fibs.
Social media: On the outside looking in at presidential debates
By:
John Stodder
Published: October 3, 2012
Tags: debates, presidential race, social media
Social media has been a wild card in presidential politics since at least 2003, when liberal, tech-savvy activists used blogs and early social networks to lift from obscurity Gov. Howard Dean’s anti-war challenge to front-runner Sen. John Kerry.
But so far, social media has played a minimal role in the most decisive campaign news events – the presidential and vice presidential debates held in the final weeks of the campaign. The debate tradition, according to Personal Democracy Forum co-founder Micah Sifry, is the political institution that “has changed the least since the rise of the Internet, despite public demands for greater participation and transparency.”
Replacing the legal pad: Apps made for note-taking
Published: August 9, 2012
Tags: apps, iPhone apps, trial notebook
Taking notes is a critical task for lawyers in all practice areas.
Some would rather write longhand, some would rather type and others prefer to enter text directly into a mobile device, with their thumbs or using a dictation program. Regardless of these preferences, it’s essential that an attorney’s notes are preserved and accessible, and there are apps to serve every attorney’s personal writing style.
