The Open Legal Blog Archive will soon begin to archive legal blogs relating to legal matters arising out of the Russo Ukraine War.
Seems a little hollow to be archiving legal blogs as a way to respond to Russia’s brutal assault on the people of Ukraine.
But there are are a myriad legal issues arising…
The University of Pacific McGeorge School of Law kicked off a Blogging Workshop for law students last week.
Students will leave with a basic understanding of how legal blogging during law school can enhance their reputation and build relationships so as to can gain employment in an area in which they have an interest.
I…
How has legal blogging changed in the last fifteen years?
That was one of the questions a veteran blogging lawyer asked me in a consultation this morning.
He started blogging on a employment law related niche awhile ago. He had good success, as measured in growth in business, from blogging.
Enough that as he told…
Sometimes it’s hard to encourage lawyers to market themselves given their full plates, work commitments and demands on their personal lives, but if you can show them why it’s in their best interest to focus on marketing and business development, you can often persuade them to do so.
Here are some of the ways I’ve…
I’ll be in Las Vegas for the Legal Marketing Association Annual Conference Tuesday and Wednesday.
This will mark my seventeenth LMA Annual Conference. Would have been my 19th conference, but for the pandemic, which has touched us all.
LMA Annual is a good conference run by some hard working members of LMA, who also…
The Library of Alexandria inside a restored San Francisco church.
This is an apt way to put the work Internet pioneer, Brewster Kahle, and his team are building in the form of the Internet Archive.
As Jesse Rogala of the San Francisco Standard reports, for over twenty-five years, the Archive, operating out of…
“I try to distill and translate complex legal materials into something like accessible prose, often on a very tight deadline.“
This, from veteran New York Times Supreme Court Reporter, Adam Liptak, describing his beat in an interview with the Times’ Katie Van Syckle.
Turn complex legal materials into accessible prose.
Legal bloggers would…
The Russo-Ukranian war demonstrates the importance of legal blogs as compared to the insight and commentary in law reviews, journals and books.
Blogs provide fast coverage, a platform upon which legal authorities can build on each other’s coverage and information and commentary needed now, as opposed to that found months or years later in legal…
The creation of secondary law has long been the province of legal academics and elite legal minds.
Publishers of treatises, law reviews, law journals and legal periodicals have long served as the gatekeepers, deciding who gets to contribute as an author, and on what topics.
With the Internet, and particularly, WordPress and legal blogging, publishing…
How do you measure the success of a law blog?
The question I was asked time and again back when I started LexBlog, almost twenty years ago, came up again last week.
The answer is the bottom line. Measure the success of legal blogging by the amount of revenue generated by your blogging
If the…
