Real Lawyers Have Blogs : Law Blogs, Social Media, Twitter

The folks at Justia are doing all they can to make the law free. Tim Stanley details this latest offering.

Nice to know Google will soon enough have scanned every book in the universe.

Kudos to Robert Ambrogi, Monica Bay, Sean Doherty, and others on the joint project of Law Technology News and Law.com Legal Technology.

Veterans who had representation got $6,225 more annually, on average, than those who didn't. Thanks Luke.

Previously just blogging about Iraq, Jane Stillwater has been approved to embed with the U.S. Marines and will leave for Iraq on Saturday.

Weekly blog carnival from lawyers and others on all things ERISA.

Although Iran requires citizens to register their blogs with the government, Persian is the 10th most widely used language on blogs worldwide, according to Technorati.

Calling some folks a blogger is fight'n words.

That's the word from The Connecticut Law Tribune on Daniel Schwartz' Connecticut Employment Law Blog.

'The Age of Conversation,' authored by 103 marketing bloggers from 24 US states and 10 other countries.

Newspaper websites mistakenly segregate their blogs off with the other blogs. They're organizing by form, not by content. Readers don't come to a newspaper's website looking for blogs. They come looking for sports, or fashion, no matter what 'form' it's in.

Paula Seeger's Dane County (WI) Legal Resource Center Blawg offering local legal news and information for judges, attorneys, and members of the public interested in legal research.

The 'top firms on the planet' based on annual gross revenue. When's the ALM Intergalactic 100 coing out?

Wrigley Alexander Fields, born September 12, 2007, was named for his parents favorite baseball team, the Cubs, who have played at Wrigley Field since 1916.

From Divine Angst features posts by future, current, and past law students, expounding on surviving the nonsense.

On the verge of another Cubs collapse, the NL Central leaders stranded 10 runners and lost to the last-place Marlins for the third game in a row, 6-4. Could be one up with 3 to go by tonight.

Mandatory arbitration clause in credit card agreements erodes consumers' fundamental right to effective remedy against credit card companies in the event of a dispute.

This site contains only the stupid opinions and ramblings of the authors, and is meant only for parody, satire, and humor purposes. As is clear to any reasonable person, the content of this site should (and we're certain, could) not be taken seriously in any way, shape, or form.

Verizon Wireless is going to censor text messages. Verizon will only carry messages the company views as politically correct - Abortion rights is a no go for now.

Subscribe to the great ones and ignore the boring ones.

What more can Jason Calacanis pull out of his hat?

Companies counting on technology to help change their business should hire young CIOs who don't have the same institutionalized knowledge of information technology that older CIOs have.

Claims preventing burn-out and writing too many pointless posts.

The Justice Department urges closing Internet access to plea agreements and related docket notations in criminal cases. The judiciary is requesting public comment on the proposed restriction.

That's the message displayed on blogs banned by the Burmese military junta because of their outspoken commentary.

Shorter list than the States, but it's a start.

Reminds me of the VHS vs Beta Videotape wars of the early 1980's. But for Blogger, Atom seems to be going way Beta did.

As offshoot of its video game law and interactive entertainment group, Davis LLP opens branch office in the virtual online world of Second Life.

Starbucks giving away 50 million digital songs? This from Howard Schultz who sold our Sonics for a $100 Million profit to a buyer who's moving the team to Oklahoma.

Cubs swept the Pirates over the weekend reducing their magic number to four. Any combination of Cubs wins or Brewers loses totaling 4 and the Cubs are in the playoffs.

The WSJ reports Microsoft is in talks to buy up to 5 percent of Facebook in a deal that could value the fast-growing online social network company at that price or higher.

Milwaukee trial lawyer and jury consultant, Anne Reed, serves up the '17 Best Tips For Voir Dire' by pulling from others blog posts on the subject.

Congrats to Greg Storey, LexBlog's Creative Director, and everyone on his team for the launch of the Sundance Film Festival website.

New owner, Rupert Murdoch, doesn't see how making the online version free could hurt the paper, and that, if done right, it could help make the paper a lot more money.

Give a guy a $91.5 million contract and he goes 2-4 down the stretch. Cubs fall into tie for first with 10 games to go.

A nationally known mass torts lawyer and star in the South Florida legal community pleads guilty to misappropriating what may be more than $13.5 million.

Lawyers aren't just using social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace for marketing.

From TechCrunch40 Denise Howell discusses IP issues for submissions and uploads to populate services of new Web companies.

Won't look the same as a 22-year-old anchor reading the news, but audience for start-up channel for people 55 and over won't look that way either.

Libraries are turning to social bookmarking tools such as del.icio.us to organize information about recommended resources and replace the traditional subject guide.

Entry into MySpace and Facebook space where users fill a Web page with information about themselves, to which they can add modules such as photos and simple Web games.

New Webmaster Central from Google provides tools and info on improving traffic, submitting content to Google, analyzing traffic, and installing Google custom search on your own site.

More can be less.

Bloggers around the world are discovering that it's cheaper and faster and more effective to build their own media channel than it is to waste time arguing with the old ones.

50% of companies questioned use blogging and 90% said their blog has generated new business opportunities.

"[Bloggers] are talking directly to marketers knowing that other consumers are listening. There are enlightened marketers who look at consumers as smart and [consumers] like that." Andrea Wojnicki, professor of marketing at the University of Toronto.

I'm quoted again directly from my blog, as opposed to the reporter calling me. Blogs have it all over traditional PR and communications for me.

Show your ideas, personality, and work habits. A blog is a living, breathing resume and network rolled into one.

A Connecticut high school student punished by school leaders for a crude rant about them on her blog has sparked state and national focus on free speech.

Diane Murley launches Arizona State University's Ross-Blakley Law Library Blog providing news, views, tips, and tools to help you succeed in law school.

10 tips from recent law grad for not being annoying at Law School.

Next Thursday in Manhattan following AMA Hot Topic on Social Media Conference.

PI law firm is raising its profile through cameo appearances on television shows.

Hopes BuzzTracker's tracking of 90,000 blogs will add to Yahoo's news pages and help it fend off competition from Google and sites such as Digg.com.

comScore Conversational Media Report to measure consumer usage of niche blogs and social networking sites.

Season is over for defending World Series champion, Redbirds. 2nd game of doubleheader coming up.

Former Chairman and CEO, Barak Berkowitz, may have increased revenues and mind share, but weekend management changes can signal not all's smooth sailing.

Seem pretty consistent. Floor. Wall. Desk. Chair. Cords. Computer.

"You'd think that women looking for work life balance would find solo practice appealing, because when you work for yourself, you gain control over the hours you work and the hours you handle."

Denise Howell asks if there's law firms supporting this organization's fight against the deep bias against mothers in America today. Did you call Reed Smith?

2 insurance runs in 9th save Dempster from another collapse. 1 1/2 in front with 15 days to go.

Lou Pinella describing yesterday's Cubs win to mave back into sole poessession of first place.

With 30 million active bloggers (and counting), it's a good bet their their voices heard again.

Harvad grad and czar of legal gossip goes on the record with his alum's independent daily.

If the Yankees go 9-9 the rest of the way, the M's would have to go 16-3 to catch them in the wild-card.

Larry Bodine's new business development newsletter for 'lawyers who a serious about getting new clients and revenue.'

Our M's lost for the 14th time in 16 games, among the worst falls by a contending team in September over the last half-century.

Hat tip to former M's and now Redbirds' pitcher, Joel Pineiro, who gave up two homers, three doubles and a single in a span of seven batters in the fourth.

Ted Demopoulos cried. 697,362 downloads, 3,379 episodes, and 107 shows for just one month at The Podcast Network.

Advice as well as penetrating insights from Australia's Collis Ta'eed and guest experts across the industry. Add to your RSS feeds.

58,000 member Facebook group is leaving unless 750 member group denouncing Islam is given the boot.

Wanted to make the leap from writing economic analysis to writing in the first person free of 'Fedspeak.' "I could finally use my own voice!"

When Madison Avenue is peddling natural sodas, natural potato chips and even natural pet foods, it only makes sense to play up the natural nature of a blog.

For you bloggers, Strunk and White's Elements of Style, first published in 1959, is now No. 11 on Amazon's Business Best Seller List.

At $200, law students can easily afford Apple's new 8GB iPod nano that will show video.

Especially when it comes to chiding law firm Nixon Peobody's theme song. It's no longer up at YouTube due to a copyright claim by the law firm.

Trachsel lasted 2 innings. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to pick up a 36 year old former Cub who's 1-6 since June.

As they say, "We're on a mission to spread important ideas and change minds."

60% of Pro Blogger survey respondents have been blogging a year or less.

I'm not the only one, but I'm no Bleed Cubbie Blue.

Law firms are taking advantage of emerging tools, such as Web conferencing and blogs, to increase productivity and improve client service.

Until our M's, no team in 24 years 20 games over .500 after 8/25 managed to go 1-12 at any point before the season ended.

Getting one of these jobs is no kid's stuff.

Blogging lawyer, law librarian, marketer, IT professional or paralegal, there's over 100 of them.

Eric Goldman will have further details out shortly.

If LexisNexis and FindLaw aren't worried, they ought to be.

Don't agree we'll see gorilla suits and flying saucers. But Flying Elvises, that'd be cool.

Welcome to the neighborhood Bill, $2 happy hour beers at Central Saloon.

Ego stroked by being on list of top law professor blogs.

Google Reader adds search feature.

Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner uses blog for daily communications with lawyers and staff.

Cooperative Canadian blog on legal research, information, and technology.

Steve makes top 25 librarian bloggers list.