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I was responding to your suggestion that it's unrealistic for LSUC to monitor the quality of
legal blogging by saying that the point is quantity, not quality.
Not exact matches
Some lawyers, however, are pushing back against the rapid rise in
legal ghost
blogging by arguing that the practice is ethically flawed.
All three panelists decry the practice on both ethical and practical grounds, passionately arguing that
legal ghost
blogging is a material misrepresentation in advertising and damages the attorney - client relationship
by undermining the natural trust that a good blog can establish between a lawyer and their readers.
For years writers have had to navigate the
legal issues of self - publishing and
blogging without a step -
by - step guide.
Her newest release, Self - Publisher's
Legal Handbook: The Step - by - Step Guide to the Legal Issues of Self - Publishing, is assisting indie author in navigating the legal minefield of self - publishing and blog
Legal Handbook: The Step -
by - Step Guide to the
Legal Issues of Self - Publishing, is assisting indie author in navigating the legal minefield of self - publishing and blog
Legal Issues of Self - Publishing, is assisting indie author in navigating the
legal minefield of self - publishing and blog
legal minefield of self - publishing and
blogging.
Add that to the more than 3,000 blogs now tracked
by the ABA Journal «s Blawg Directory and you can start to see how prevalent
blogging has become throughout the
legal profession.
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.
As I
blogged a little while ago,
legal directory site Avvo has been acquired
by Internet Brands, a company that is one of the world's largest operators of websites that serve targeted vertical markets and that already owns a variety of
legal websites, including Nolo, Lawyers.com, Martindale - Hubbell, Total Attorneys, and others.
Blogging live from the
Legal IT 5.0 Conference in Montreal, I am attending the session on crowdsourcing and the law which started at 9:30 am, frankly, because I was intrigued
by the title... Crowdsourcing the law?!
LexBlog was founded in 2003 to empower lawyers to increase their visibility and accelerate their business relationships through
blogging, Today, its platform is home to more than 15,000
legal bloggers and over half of the nearly 1,000 blogs published
by the 200 largest U.S. firms.
ounded in 2003 to empower lawyers to increase their visibility and accelerate their business relationships through
blogging, Today, its platform is home to more than 15,000
legal bloggers and over half of the nearly 1,000 blogs published
by the 200 largest U.S. firms.
I continue to be grateful for the kind comments that are made from time to time about this rookie's efforts
by the giants in the field of
legal blogging in this country.
More than a
legal guide, the handbook is a how - to for new bloggers, with chapters on setting up blogs, gettting blogs recognized
by search engines, and the ethics of
blogging.
That's the money question considered
by Rachel Lee in this fascinating Stanford Law Review article, Ex Parte
Blogging: the
Legal Ethics of Supreme Court Advocacy in an Internet Era.
Cathy Kirkman reports — here and here — on the weekend's events at BlogHer» 06, the second - annual conference on women and
blogging organized
by former
Legal Blog Watch editor Lisa Stone along with Elisa Camahort and Jory Des Jardins.
In conjunction with the new blog, West today released a podcast,
Legal Blogging: Trends and Tips, in which I was honored to be one of three guests interviewed
by West's Gretchen DeSutter, along with -LSB-...]
We discuss, among other questions, why there aren't more
legal bloggers at larger law firms, whether larger firms see value in
blogging and whether bloggers
by their nature tend not to fit with larger firms.
[T] he acceptance
by the
legal academy of the
blogging platform as being a legitimate publishing medium can have what Brown calls a `'» prominence» dividend».
I've started trying to pry some of the rocks lodged in the
legal arena
by blogging at ctjester.blogspot.ca.
It is no wonder in - house lawyers are reluctant to blog,
legal consultant Rees Morrison of Hildebrandt International tells Aman: «There are a lot of ways
blogging by in - house counsel could go wrong.»
Two ways
legal bloggers might increase their
blogging success rate are
by posting to their blogs more frequently and interacting more with their readers and with other blogs.
And this morning, Peter Lattman of the Wall Street Journal Law Blog had the scoop on a «hot off the presses» ruling
by federal district court Judge Lewis Kaplan, who found that that prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a group of former KPMG partners in pressuring the firm not to advance them
legal fees (I originally
blogged about the matter here in the context of how much we should expect corporations to stand up for customer or employee rights when government comes knocking on the corporate door).
That's the topic of an excellent blog posting
by Kelly Anderson of Southern African
Legal Information Institute — SAFLII — over at VoxPopuLII, which is a guest -
blogging project sponsored
by Tom Bruce and our friends across the lake at the
Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School.
Kevin O'Keefe, a 2009 ABA Journal
Legal Rebel and a leading authority on the use of
blogging and social media for professional and business development, is CEO of Seattle - based LexBlog, a managed platform for the law used
by more than 15,000 lawyers worldwide.
Others among the several blogs honored here are Above the Law as Best New Law Blog, Overlawyered for Best Blawg Theme, Likelihood of Confusion for Best Law Blog Name, Antitrust Review and PHOSITA sharing the award for Best Group Blog, TalkLeft for Best Politicio Blog
by Lawyers, Althouse for Best Personal Blog
by a legally oriented female blogger, SHLEP: the Self - Help Law ExPress for Best Law Blog in the Public Interest, Online Guide to Mediation for Best Law Blog
by a
legal mediator, and Denise Howell as Blawg Diva for her
blogging at Bag and Baggage, Between Lawyers and Lawgarithms.
Today marks a momentous occasion in the annals of
legal blogging: the first Blawg Review hosted
by a British blogger.
However, I am more disappointed that the newspaper of record again misses the real story about
legal blogging: The value placed on blawgs
by their writers and readers.
Bob Ambrogi recommends this new publications
by Reporters Without Borders: «More than a
legal guide, the handbook is a how - to for new bloggers, with chapters on setting up blogs, getting blogs recognized
by search engines, and the ethics of
blogging.
Geoff Gussis recommends that if you want to learn more about
legal blogging, you should check out BlawgThink 2005, a project
by Matt Homann and Dennis Kennedy happening in Chicago next week.
Early in the evolution of
legal blogging, Gratsch launched his Web site blawg, providing the first comprehensive directory of law - related blogs organized
by topic.
By: Jennifer Koshan PDF Version:
Blogging and Legal Education I was at the Canadian Association of Law Teachers (CALT) conference in Ottawa earlier this week and participated in a roundtable on blogging and legal ed
Blogging and
Legal Education I was at the Canadian Association of Law Teachers (CALT) conference in Ottawa earlier this week and participated in a roundtable on blogging and legal educa
Legal Education I was at the Canadian Association of Law Teachers (CALT) conference in Ottawa earlier this week and participated in a roundtable on
blogging and legal ed
blogging and
legal educa
legal education.
Monica Bay, editor of ALM's
Legal Technology News, commented to my blog post that she was puzzeled by criticsim of ALM in that she viewed the company as a pioneer in legal blog
Legal Technology News, commented to my blog post that she was puzzeled
by criticsim of ALM in that she viewed the company as a pioneer in
legal blog
legal blogging.
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).
Law
blogging was still a relatively new phenomenon, not taken seriously
by the
legal establishment.
Siobhain Butterworth in The Guardian: A recent panel event shows
legal blogging is growing to fill the gap left
by newspapers...
Came back from the awesomely large Association of
Legal Administrators conference in MontréalOur session on Practical Paranoia — Remote Computing doesn't really fit the Slaw agenda, so I won't bore folks on the topic — and that's why no live
blogging from ALA in Montréal
by Slaw this week, only to realize that I should have delayed my train to stay for the session following ours.
In the same way that
blogging democratizes the law
by facilitating the free dissemination of
legal information, the authorship of those blog posts, and who they are, increases the transparency in a profession that is still enormously hierarchical and exclusionary to new entrants.
By blogging consistently, you can improve your
legal writing immensely.
Blogs developed from outlets for pure self - expression into «premium» services run
by «
legal blogging experts» (whatever that means).
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.
I'd advise lawyers who are
blogging and using other social media to abide
by legal ethics pertaining to advertising or any other matter.
Persuasive real - world experience in the following areas would be beneficial: some history of direct retention
by clients for
legal services and involvement in the new client intake process, including drafting retainer agreements; drafting marketing or advertising material for
legal services, including law firm website content; and regularly
blogging and / or writing on matters of interest to potential clients of
legal services.
You're trying your hand at something other than
legal writing and
blogging by submitting to the ABA Journal / Ross Contest for Short Fiction.
Ambrogi writes that the
Legal Ethics Forum is blogged by John Dzienkowski of the University of Texas Law School, W. Bradley Wendel, associate professor of law at Cornell Law School, and John J. Steele, lecturer in legal ethics at Boalt Hall School of Law, Unversity of California, Berk
Legal Ethics Forum is
blogged by John Dzienkowski of the University of Texas Law School, W. Bradley Wendel, associate professor of law at Cornell Law School, and John J. Steele, lecturer in
legal ethics at Boalt Hall School of Law, Unversity of California, Berk
legal ethics at Boalt Hall School of Law, Unversity of California, Berkeley.
Prompted
by a comment
by Bob Ambrogi, Venkat Balasubramani, who blogs at Spam Notes and guest - blogs regularly at Eric Goldman's blog, wondered whether the broadening of his
legal interests over the past three - and - a-half years of
blogging suggest that he should «make a clean break» from his focused personal blog and start a different one; he weighs the pros and cons in a thoughtful post.
Blawg Review, for those of you not familiar with it, is a weekly review of the best in
legal blogging hosted each week
by a different blogger, who each present a unique perspective on law,
legal issues, and
legal scholarship — topics which affect mediators, too.