When I reveal that I also work as a lawyer,
write for legal blogs and have an extensive corporate network to draw from, that tips the scales in my favor.
A new search
engine for legal blogs was introduced in beta today and will be officially unveiled in the next day or two.
A crucial thing to remember as you sit down to
write for your legal blog is to put yourself in the shoes of your potential clients.
When I started writing
for Legal Blog Watch in March 2006, I felt like a kid in a candy store as I read through insightful, well - informed blog posts and chose content to feature.
Still, during these years, I also wrote roughly 1,700
posts for Legal Blog Watch, 562 posts for my Media Law blog and roughly 90 monthly columns for Law Technology News, and -LSB-...]
Indeed, back in 2010 when I used to cover the baggy pants
beat for Legal Blog Watch, I observed no fewer than three cases in a 12 - month span where criminal plots were completely and utterly foiled by the perpetrators» baggy pants.
Earlier this week, The Volokh Conspiracy observed here that it is quite «
common for legal blogs to use some legal phrase as their title, such as Concurring Opinions, Res Ipsa Loquitur,» and posed an amusing question to its readers:
Yesterday's post seeking the best
disclaimers for legal blogs produced a couple of strong suggestions, including the disclaimer used by Mark Bennett on his Defending People blog:
«Since we've [Ha - Redeye and Devin Johnston, who also worked on
podcasts for the legal blog Law Is Cool] started articling we haven't had any podcasts at all, because we simply don't have the time to do it,» Ha - Redeye says.
On one hand, a lot of stuff on the internet is irrelevant, off - topic garbage, and one could say that it makes perfect
sense for legal blogs to focus on legal topics, because that is the content people visit them to read.
From a field of hundreds of potential nominees, Basis Points has received enough nominations to join one of the largest
competitions for legal blog writing online today.
* Professor Noah Feldman identifies the shortcomings of Twitter as a forum for legal discussion (but has some kind
words for legal blogs, including the one you're reading right now).
Still, during these years, I also wrote roughly 1,700 posts
for Legal Blog Watch, 562 posts for my Media Law blog and roughly 90 monthly columns for Law Technology News, and recorded north of 250 episodes of a weekly podcast.
As I approach the six - month anniversary of the day I started
writing for Legal Blog Watch, it has struck me several times lately that there were so many things I simply did not appreciate about the legal system and the blogosphere before I started watching it intently every (other) day.
As the standards editor *
for Legal Blog Watch, I, too, would like to ban a word, if only to keep up with the NYT.
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