-Teresa

I mean.. look at New York's attempt to regulate "pop-ups." Not only a totally stupid thing to do but "pop-ups" are yesterday's technology... wait till they see what's coming next in terms of web technology.

So, Kevin, I'm with you, but what's the answer..how do we stand up and fight the "powers that be?"

Yourself and a hand full of others are reaching vigorously into the stormy clouds of social responsibility and rearranging the skies into a beautiful future. I admire your candor towards a profession that has been labeled as substantially failing in regards to fulfilling its social and ethical obligations to society.

Indeed, this Law2.0 wave that has emerged, in essence is being enabled by 'the people' who are fully embracing the new technologies that are being brought to the Internet every day. I like to think of the web as the real time human 'communicator' that supersedes space and time and allows for each and every citizen of the developed worlds to obtain and share information freely and unregulated.

The blogosphere polices itself, and we all know that it doesn't take long to be held accountable for a bad move. Three to four years ago, this type of communication was impractical and mostly unavailable for the majority. Yet, due to the wide spread adoption of broadband and the affordable ease at which it is to publish rich content for the world, every day we are seeing more and more users empowered and interacting with the blogging medium.

Blogs and the web are offering the courageous, 'real' legal professionals of the world a tremendous opportunity to muscle their way up from out of the scummy sewers that have drenched this arena over the past 50 years.

These silly and foolish debates over what constitutes 'ethical marketing' for a law firm will eventually resolve in proving that the lawyers who publish blogs are not only lawyers with guts but they are far more reliable and committed to client servitude than the type of scum that currently brands American billboards and late night television spots.

If anything, lawyer blogs are extending the arm of accountability. I believe quite adamantly, that those who choose to carry on despite the naysayers, and continue to publish meaningful content and foster genuine interactions with their audiences will be the ones who have made some extreme and extraordinary differences in our communities and in our world.

This opportunity is being afforded to practitioners in hopes that they start regrowing some of that luminary human skin that was once worn so valiantly during their zealous three year investment in law school. My advice to old school practioners is to simply start making some bold public moves... this will light a fire inside your heart that will never go out.

It's no secret that the courts are among the most demonically inefficient and inaccessible as well as forbidding institutions in this country yet they still remain the only way that we as seekers of justice can go about obtaining rectitude. As we move closer into proximity of becoming an awakened global society, we will only stand the chance of evolving these inoperable justice systems into a facilitator of truth, by first reaching into our very own consciousness and flipping the switches - - switches that tear down walls and see bionically through the differences that divides us. Blogs are in essence these internal switches.

The greatest sacrifice today is that of time, and quite frankly, fewer people are willing to engage in it. On the contrary, those that courageously risk the investment of their own time into teaching and utilizing the available 'human centric' technologies, are in the end leveraging their knowledge and authenticating the overall practice of their law firms.

In addition, those who blog will also come to find that by exposing their inner qualities on a daily basis to the world, they will be exploring and validating the core purposes and principals of their very own lives. These souls shall be held in high regard as the few honorable, brave, and transparent beings whom pioneered the technology of the web into a truly activated global democracy of Truth and Justice for all.

Lastly, your blog contains a wealth of wisdom and although I rarely do comment, I believe each of your posts are usually worthy of a treatise as such =)

I can only hope every lawyer in America eventually encounters your writings and the LexBlog network. Keep up the outstanding coverage!