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.
Because we try to bring you a tasting menu of what's going on in the
world of legal blogging, the issues should be diverse.
Lawyers who personally maintain blogs were asked whether they had ever had a client retain them directly or via referral as a
result of their legal blogging.
I'm not exactly sure what this development means for the current
state of legal blogging, but just know this: There are now two blogs dedicated to mixed martial arts law!
However, the very fact that we were meeting and discussing that issue underscores the networking
value of legal blogging, as we were all doing so solely because of our own blogging efforts.
One interesting question the survey asks each year is whether lawyers who have blogs have ever had a client retain them directly or via referral as a
result of their legal blogging.
Legal Blog Watch is honored to breathe the rare air of the Stark County Law Blawg and other winners of Dennis Kennedy's 2005 Best
of Legal Blogging Awards.
The other evening I had the pleasure of being on a panel to discuss the nuts and bolts
of legal blogging at a continuing legal education seminar at the New York City Bar Association with three of the best bloggers out there: Kevin O'Keefe, Scott Greenfield, and Eric Turkowitz.
To that end, when Legal Week published its excellent review
of legal blogging last month, the failure to mention BAILII caused a min - revolution from a gaggle of legal bloggers in the comments section.
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.
To learn more about the do's and do
n'ts of legal blogging, watch this webinar hosted by DISRUPT.LEGAL blogger, lawyer, and tech extraordinaire, Mary Redzic.
The now infamous case of the anonymous blogger known as Patent Troll Tracker and the lawyer who offered a reward to unmask him is an object lesson in the potential perils and
pitfalls of legal blogging.
Carolyn and I launched our blogs within a month of each other, way back in 2002, the pre-Mesozoic
era of legal blogging, and for many years, we shared co-authoring duties for the former ALM Legal Blog Watch.
While one representative
sampling of the legal blogging community was in Chicago late last week for ABA Techshow, another group of legal bloggers was in San Francisco for the Blog Law & Blogging for Lawyers conference.
I looked at Andrew Sullivan the political blogger, alongside David Allen Green and Adam Wagner, in the
context of legal blogging here.
I looked at David Allen Green and Adam Wagner and the great depth and
reach of legal blogging in an earlier Defero blog post here.
The range of reactions to GeekLawyer's blog bacchanalia led Mystal to ask, What is the
point of legal blogging anyway?
Then Fox gets serious, recommending Bruce MacEwen's excellent
roundup of legal blogging in response to question of billable hour / life balance, and adding a postscript about his own life that certainly resonates with me:
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.
This month, I have read with interest and surprise the recent
lamentations of legal blogging posted by some of the founders and earliest adopters of the medium.
This thoroughly assisted me in understanding the ins and
outs of legal blogging, and how it differs from either writing legal memorandum and facta to creating academic content for a firm site.
Some things never change, but the
growth of legal blogging over the past decade would give hope to even Professor Rodell that not all legal writing must suffer from these twin deficiencies.
Under the guidance of its anonymous editor, Blawg Review presents the many
facets of legal blogging, refracted through the lens of each week's host.
If you're not
aware of the legal blogging community in Canada, you're missing out — our neighbors to the North provide some of the most interesting commentary and insight out there.
Inevitably, the review considered the controversial issue of the courtroom tweeting and blogging from court — coming to the unsurprising conclusion that the
effect of legal blogging on the justice system is generally a positive one and that you should «always tweet on the bright side of life».
The Blawg Review focuses on posts from the
world of legal blogging (or «blawging»), and is hosted each week by a different law blog (or «blawg»).
Essentially, Kevin's article explains the «whys» behind the «what»
of legal blogging, while offering concrete steps on how to make the most of a blog to bring in clients and media opportunities.
Which he then does, arriving eventually at the point where he peers into the future
of legal blogging.
I decided to do a bit of research of my own into the world
of legal blogging and looked at posts from Am Law 100 firms to sole practitioners, and all in between.
Well worth a listen: The Future of Legal Blogging
It is good to see more law bloggers in the Uk putting pen to paper — even if this indirectly enhances their «business» — and there are some good posts noted in Tessa Shepperson's very thorough review: UK Blawg Roundup # 7 — and the future of legal blogging
It's just a huge compliment when measured against the remarkable breadth and quality of the other winners and the Canadian legal blawgosphere as a whole, which I've been saying for awhile is one
of legal blogging's best - kept secrets.