For those attending today’s webinar on law firm blogs and websites, here’s the PowerPoint I’ll be walking through. Strafford Publications, the program’s coordinator may already have forwarded a copy, but I wanted you to be able to download the PowerPoint here. Technorati Tags: blog law, CLE
Monthly Archives: May 2007
Tuesday May 29 Teleseminar on law firm blogs and websites – CLE – join me
Last minute reminder that if you are interested in the ethical issues raised by lawyer blogs and websites and need a few CLE credits, join me and an excellent panel for a teleseminar on Tuesday May 29 from 1 to 2:30 ET. My co-presenters are Dennis Kennedy and Ben Cowgill. We’ve split up the topics… Continue Reading
Webcasting court proceedings to start
Webcasting of court proceedings is long overdue. Webcasting would give everyone, including other lawyers, an opportunity to see what’s taking place public in courtrooms. Michel-Adrien Sheppard, a former news researcher/journalist and now reference librarian at the Supreme Court of Canada, reports webcasting of Ontario court proceedings is to start soon. This will include the live… Continue Reading
MySpace helps attorneys get clients
MySpace helps attorneys find clients reports Brenda Sapino Jeffreys of Texas Lawyer. When Missouri City, Texas, entertainment lawyer Leslie Warren Cross launched a MySpace.com page in 2006, he wanted a way to provide up-and-coming musicians basic information about the legalities of music contracts. But Cross says that as he acquired ‘friends’ on his MySpace page,… Continue Reading
Delaware lawyer at forefront of marketing with technology
Delaware corporate and commercial litigation lawyer Francis Pileggi is a bit of a celebrity, both in his home state and the global blogosphere. Francis is responsible for founding the Wilmington, Delaware branch of Fox Rothschild LLP, a firm with 14 offices and almost 400 lawyers across the country. His name has popped up in election… Continue Reading
Thomson Reuters CEO launches blog
Tom Glocer, CEO for the newly formed Thomson Reuters (Thomson acquired Reuters last week) has launched his own blog. We are all subject to a lot of official communications these days from companies, governments, celebrities and others. All too often these are ghost written passages concocted by overeager PR machines and do little to tell… Continue Reading
Colin O’Keefe back at LexBlog
I’m Colin O’Keefe and yes, I am Kevin’s son. I’m in my third year working full-time (Summers/Holidays) or part-time (school year) here at LexBlog. I’m starting my senior year, and last semester, at the University of Montana School of Journalism. It’s a weird time to be studying journalism. I feel like I’m working towards a… Continue Reading
Lawyers coming to LinkedIn
Lawyers are coming to LinkedIn quickly posts Steve Matthews this morning. I mentioned LinkedIn during an in-house presentation at my law firm a few weeks back, and knew at that point about 15% of our Lawyers were on it. Checking back today, that number has jumped to around 35%……Lawyers already get networking for [business development]… Continue Reading
Lessons for your second year of blogging
Attorney Ken Adams, a leading authority on the language and format of contracts, reflects on his first year of blogging this morning. Looks like he’s had some good success. In that Ken references my niche blogging post in measuring his success, I shared the below in a comment on his blog on what he may… Continue Reading
Google blog search a winner over Technorati
I used to tell folks that when it came to subscribing to keywords/key phrases from blogs Technorati was well ahead on the back stretch going into the third turn. Unfortunately for David Sifry, head of Technorati, Google Blog Search is now up by 6 lengths heading for the post. Why? Because as Scoble posts tonight… Continue Reading
Law grad lands job with large firm by blogging
Talking to a recent law school grad from the East Coast last night who landed a position with a 150 lawyer firm as a result of his blogging. The firm, which does transactional and litigation work for corporations, non-profits, and government agencies, is now going to use an upgraded professional blog to market the practice… Continue Reading
Accounting blogs: A running list
Michelle Golden, whose company does consulting and marketing for professional service firms throughout the U.S. and abroad, is keeping a running list of accounting blogs. If you’re a CPA or CA firm (anywhere in the world!) that has a blog not on the list, Michelle wants to know. Michelle is dynamite to work with. LexBlog… Continue Reading
How much does fresh content matter in SEO?
That’s the question asked by Darren Rowse at Pro Blogger. The idea that Google and other search engines feed on fresh content is one that I’ve heard talked about on many occasions. However it doesn’t always seem to be so. I was just doing a Google search for digital photography and noticed one of Weblogs… Continue Reading
Virtual world population: 50 million by 2011
Think you don’t need an effective Internet presence now? Wrong. Within 4 years, Gartner Chief of Research Steve Prentice reports ‘80 percent of active Internet users (and Fortune 500 companies) will have a ‘second life’, but not necessarily in Second Life’ by 2011′ From Wagner James Au at GigaOM my source on this post: The… Continue Reading
Seattle getting smarter : Google adds 240 engineers
Amy Martinez of our Seattle Times reports Google plans to expand by subleasing 60,000 square feet from Getty Images on the water along North 34th Street in Fremont. In addition to its engineering center across Lake Washington in Kirkland, Google will be adding 240 additional R&D engineers. What does Google think of Seattle? Per Google… Continue Reading