While the law blog may build on — or, perhaps, remediate — aspects of the law review article,
legal blogging also emerges out of a tradition of conversation.
Not exact matches
You might
also consider adding your voice here: To a February 2006 colloquium on the
legal realities behind the
blogging revolution, hosted by the Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law, as posted by Randy Barnett.
And as Monica Bay notes at The Common Scold, credit
also goes to long - time
legal technology innovator Rick Klau, a lawyer who has worked at Google since 2007, helping to enhance its
blogging platform and
also assisting in this case law project.
The majority of lawyers
also now use mobile devices in their practices, and many lawyers are no longer strangers to social media and
legal blogging.
Also of interest is Robert Ambrogi's comment that
legal blogging seems to be on the decline.
Support for live -
blogging courtroom proceedings and discrediting class distinctions drawn in this regard
also stems from a promotion of the model of discursive democracy outlined above in Part I. Drawing on the work of theorists including Lon Fuller, recall that the Supreme Court of Canada and
legal scholars such as Jeremy Waldron held that the fair functioning of the liberal democratic order required civilian access to information and the attendant opportunity to deliberate upon that information critically.
This close reading
also models a potential pedagogy for a
legal -
blogging class.
LexBlog is
also cohosting with Lawline the evening before a
Legal Blogging and Social Media Workshop from 5 to 6:30 followed by a Beer for Bloggers (and others).
Ron Friedmann at Strategic
Legal Technology furthers the point about the importance of lead generation for law firms, but he
also makes what I think is a key point: the benefits of
blogging tend to accrue to the individual author rather than the firm.
It could be the fact that we're smaller, but I
also give a lot of credit to Slaw.ca, our Canadian
legal blogging co-op.
Ryhner
also acknowledged, as reported by Berman, «[T] hat there have been no malpractice suits against
blogging lawyers in the United States over bad
legal advice.
King, taking a reasoned approach to what
blogging / social media / social networking really is,
also pointed out that much of a lawyer's use of social media and social networking may not be subject to
legal ethics rules.
Mobile is no doubt coming and will eclipse a desktop, not only for
legal research, but
also for practice management, writing, billing, and business development (
blogging and social media included).