Steve Covell says that,
with his legal blogging friends moving to TypePad, he started thinking about his Blogger blog and the future.
Pictured to the left is none other than Douglas Adams, the late, great author of a book that had nothing to do
with legal blogging — and everything to do (in my opinion, whether or not I always agreed with him) with opening your mind.
In my view, serious and evidence - minded people like lawyers make better authors than they do journalists but often I observe the risk of confusing legal journalism
with legal blogging and with legal publishing.
Not exact matches
I'm delighted to share this
with bloggers and future bloggers out there and I hope that this clarifies issues, allows
blogging to move forward as an industry and allows us to avoid those dreaded
legal letters!
Create a sequence of blog posts on a particular theme or topic
with the help of video tutorials (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP428f69lLpaIqY7RhpPA1XNQgWBk1HOW) Use
blogging as a way to write creatively Develop a critical, reflective view of a range of media, including text Ethical and
legal responsibilities of being online Pupils are able to screenshot, paste, crop and resize in order to collate evidence NEW - revision on a page sheet (Jan 2017)
In a recent podcast, hosts Sharon D. Nelson and Jim Calloway talk about the ethical considerations of
legal ghost
blogging with attorney and marketing expert Kevin O'Keefe.
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With:
blogging, book distribution, book marketing, copyright, eBooks, ISBN, print on demand, Q&A, self publishing
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With both my legal and blogging background, I have extensive experience drafting and reviewing blogger + brand contracts, as well as with drafting custom contracts for bloggers working as social media consultants, florists contracting with clients, and travel bloggers venturing out into managing clients» travel points and mi
With both my
legal and
blogging background, I have extensive experience drafting and reviewing blogger + brand contracts, as well as
with drafting custom contracts for bloggers working as social media consultants, florists contracting with clients, and travel bloggers venturing out into managing clients» travel points and mi
with drafting custom contracts for bloggers working as social media consultants, florists contracting
with clients, and travel bloggers venturing out into managing clients» travel points and mi
with clients, and travel bloggers venturing out into managing clients» travel points and miles.
One of the big challenges we're going to tackle is how to mix traditional law firm website features
with blogging and providing
legal commentary.
Where once we were isolated
legal students, practitioners, and academics who could share our thoughts only
with those in proximity,
blogging and social media have turned us all into a kind of «other memory» for one another.
In early December, the Americans celebrated
legal blogging with the ABA Journal Web 100, and on December 31st, Canada did likewise
with the 2017 Clawbies.
But for this particular
legal professional, the race to keep up
with blogging began to compete too aggressively
with my other work.
Yesterday morning, Adrian Lurssen (aka @jdtwitt), Communications Director at
legal document sharing website JD Supra,
blogged a list of 145 lawyers and
legal professionals he's following on Twitter,
with the goal of encouraging a some
legal community matchmaking.
One of the best parts of being involved
with the Clawbies is learning about new blogs, and seeing just how many different
legal topics are being
blogged about in Canada.
With all this,
legal blogging could be a full - time occupation — and in fact it now is for some.
As yours truly
blogged last week, law firms may want to follow the lead of other marketers and more fully embrace email newsletters and alerts as a low cost, targeted and measurable method for reinforcing expertise
with existing clients (who expect to continue hearing from their lawyers about breaking
legal trends relevant to their businesses).
The lawyer is used to hammering out motions and contracts
with (
legal) ease; but when it comes time to speak in the personal voice and
with the individual perspective that
blogging requires, they can't make the transition.
He was well - acquainted
with the concept of
blogging and familiar
with some U.S.
legal blogs, but could identify no Russian
legal bloggers.
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.
Having never gotten around to
blogging last week's episode of our weekly
legal - affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, and
with this week's now in the can, I have a two - fer to report: The California ruling and the gay marriage debate.
As sure as thesis breeds antithesis,
blogging's popularity within the
legal profession is drawing some to question its value, mostly
with regard to marketing.
I am honored to report that Lawyer2Lawyer, the weekly
legal - affairs podcast I cohost with J. Craig Williams, is the winner for the second year in a row of Dennis Kennedy's Best of Law - related Blogging Award for Best Legal Pod
legal - affairs podcast I cohost
with J. Craig Williams, is the winner for the second year in a row of Dennis Kennedy's Best of Law - related
Blogging Award for Best
Legal Pod
Legal Podcast.
The explosion in
blogging has been felt within the
legal field,
with lawyers, academics, pundits and even judges introducing blogs of their own.
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.
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.
In response to O'Keefe's January post of LegalTech, I wrote here that I disagreed
with his conclusion that this paucity of
blogging speaks poorly of the
legal industry's adoption of new technologies.
After all, the «
legal tech
blogging community» isn't all that big to begin
with, and «a very small sector» of an already small sector would indicate that I may be the sole recipient of Foxwordy's banishment.
For two years now, I have had the honor of sharing
blogging duties here at
Legal Blog Watch
with Washington, D.C., lawyer Carolyn Elefant.
These differences show that
legal blogging is essentially an umbrella genre
with subgenres.
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:
Jordan's piece, though not on
legal blogging, includes plenty of stories from bloggers who connected
with their audience in a meaningful way through authentic
blogging.
In fact, as we're
blogging, our team is engaging
with our users to get feedback on current and future offerings via usability tests, face - to - face conversations, listening and responding to
legal blogs, forum convos and tweets — armed
with that feedback we can develop the best offering to service our members.
The Law Student Blogger / Social Invitational pre-conference seminar brings together global
blogging and social participants from the eDiscovery and
Legal Technology community
with law students forward thinking enough to create and share their knowledge via online media while still in school.
A conversation
with Daniel Gershburg about
blogging,
legal marketing, the misleading hashtags of
legal tech conferences, and the future of solo and small - firm practice.
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.
In the first of the two, we discussed the case and its broader significance for
legal blogging with three guests: Kevin O'Keefe, CEO and publisher of LexBlog; Eric E. Johnson, professor at the University of North Dakota School of Law and author of Blog Law Blog; and Peter Vieth,
legal editor for Virginia Lawyers Weekly.
Legal blogger Justin Patten provided the authors
with guidance on
blogging using Typepad.
A better approach for large
legal publishers may be to support, sponsor, or partner
with new media publishers who have figured out, through trial and error, how
blogging and social media work.
Talking
with legal journalist and long time law blogger, Bob Ambrogi, last week, he asked me what I thought the number one reason was for lawyers to stop
blogging.
Finally, he shared his thoughts on
legal blogging, emphasizing that effective
legal blogging is all about conversations
with other bloggers, instead of simply trying to game search engines
with key words.
I recently partnered up
with MerusCase, one of my favorite law practice management solutions, to share my tips and tricks for
legal blogging.
I noticed that after a while, every CLE event I attended was related to
legal tech, my nights were preoccupied
with coming up
with blogging ideas and searching for the next big thing in
legal tech I can write about.
After countless demos, days of research and emails
with providers, I decided to start
blogging about the
legal tech solutions that are (or are not) available for attorneys.
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).
The most challenging tactical issue was getting a large law firm to embrace social media,
blogging and real - time conversations
with readers — especially in a lighter, more narrative format than is traditional for most
legal articles and online presence.