Nicole Black is a practicing lawyer, published author, newspaper columnist and avid blogger. She will teach a course about web productivity and organization for lawyers at Solo Practice University®.

Currently, Nicole is Of Counsel to Fiandach & Fiandach, a Rochester, New York law firm that that is one of the largest and most experienced DWI defense firms in the state.

Previously she was an Assistant Public Defender for Monroe County and a litigation associate at Trevett, Cristo, Salzer, & Andolina P.C.

She co-authers Criminal Law in New York, 4th edition (West-Thomson) and writes a weekly column for The Daily Record (Dolan Media).

She is an avid blogger. She began blogging in November of 2005 and currently publishes 4 legal blogs: Practicing Law in the 21st Century, Legal Tweets,  Sui Generis, a New York Law Blog and Legal Antics.

She finds the intersection of law and technology to be particularly fascinating and is doing all that  she can to facilitate the fusion of these two seemingly reluctant soul mates. She regularly blogs and writes about issues related to legal technology.

Syllabus

A. COURSE OVERVIEW

This course will meet 3 times each month and will be presented in a blog post, a pre-recorded screen cast, and live webinar format. You will learn how to utilize Web 2.0 technologies to organize your law practice and your life.

B COURSE OBJECTIVES

1. To acquaint students with the concept of “Web 2.0”

2. To acquaint students with social media and its use in one’s law practice

3. To acquaint students with the Web 2.0 productivity and organizational applications

4. To explain how Web 2.0 applications can be used efficiently and to create better balance between one’s life and the practice of law.