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

Grant Griffiths highlights blog posts post relating to a home office or solo practice lawyer.

David Maister focuses on issues relating to the business of law.

Blog enables her to put out information quickly, quell rumors and get feedback from community residents.

Not sure I'd consider them as such, but for law firms these may seem pretty risky.

Not a fan of favorite blog lists, but by looking at Digg homepages and Yahoo linking, here's sort of scientific list of the best of the environmental blogs.

May teach their reporters how to post to a blog but blogs have always been niche or individual publisher focused.

From Monica Bay: 'You showed all of us how to pick our battles, stand tall, and quietly demand respect.'

Bertalan Meskó, a Hungarian medical student aims to convince more health professionals/people interested in medicine to create their own blogs.

Curt Schilling, publisher of a wonderful blog, 38 Pitches, starts for Boston tonight at Fenway.

Congrats Elisa, Jory, and Lisa.

With RSS, parents can easily keep up-to-date with their child's classroom website.

If you're a blogger looking for a blogging job, the ProBlogger Blog Job Board is worth checking out.

I'm giving away my age.

Firing the committee is at the top of Seth's list too.

Personal injury lawyer Eric Turkewitz on runners' safety being a high priority as days grow shorter.

For teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice.

Perfect way to read news on a mobile web browser, on a Blackberry, iPhone or Nokia N95, as examples.

From Brendon Carr, an American lawyer working as a foreign legal consultant for more than 10 years in Seoul.

Evan Schaeffer has seven choice posts from the past week by law students, some current or almost current, some recently-graduated.

New Zealand commercial mediator Geoff Sharp highlights law posts from the bottom half of the globe.

Some to raise their law firm's profile, with some using blogs as therapy, writing anonymouslt about luxuriously appointed 'billable hour' hellholes, where workaholic senior partners drive junior associates through 18-hour working days.

J. Edward Pawlick founded Massachusetts Lawyers publication in 1972, working at first from his home, expaned to other states and in 1994, nationally, with Lawyers USA.

We'll be pointing the next troublesome client to this article.

For large firms as well as small, here are 10 institutional traits that seem to be the seeds of success.

ALM survey finds 40 percent of respondents research time is spent using search engines such as Google, to find free, basic information.

The National Library of Medicine and the NIH came up with an official guide on how to cite medical blogs in the literature.

Not sure applies to law blogs, but according to Simon Dumenco, a prominent U.S. media analyst, people read blogs at least in part because they 'want to get laid.'

So says Ryan Alexander at the Harvard Law School Record.

Commenting on posts offers Wisconsin criminal defense lawyers a great marketing opportunity.

Employment lawyer Julie Elgar does a weekly blog post assessing management's liability for the characters' inappropriate behavior on the previous night's episode and estimates the cost of potential litigation.

Avoid the boring sameness.

Not as much as the States, but got to like Tom Slade's effort.

Executive editor of washingtonpost.com, speaking at annual conference of the Associated Press Managing Editors, says newspapers must build online communities of readers.

Alexander Schulman closed down his blog, which attracted over 250,000 readers a week, because readers were only interested in reading gossip about celebrities and that he was 'filled with self-disgust'.

Presented by Boston health care lawyer David Harlow's HealthBlawg.

Lawyer: 'Financial information is certainly sensitive, but medical information adds another whole degree of concern.'

'Friend request' to an ex-spouse in violation of Restraining Order that forbids any communication.

Professor Colin Miller of John Marshall launches Evidence Prof Blog.

Congrats to Seattle's Mike Davidson on the company he co-founded two years ago, Newsvine, being acquired by msnbc.com.

99 years since our last World Series win.

'This is hard to say to a friend, but our relationship is starting to take up too much of my time.'

"The United States Library of Congress has selected your Web site for inclusion in its historic collections of Internet materials related to Legal Blogs."

'Need a personal injury lawyer? Please visit our website...'

It would be nice if the 'blog clueless' would keep their opinions to themselves until they understood blogging.

Though the most time-challenged people on the planet, corporate honchos are blogging on all topics as as a way to connect with both clients and employees.

Red Sweater Software has released an update to its popular blogging software, MarsEdit. I wouldn't be without it for blogging - but it's Mac only.

Forward thinking Proskauer Rose regards giving 28 chapter book prepared by 50 Proskauer lawyers as worthwhile investment.

Sidley admitted no wrongdoing, but agreed to pay $27.5 million (or an average payment of $859,375) to the 32 partners, who were stripped of their titles under a policy that requires partners to retire at a certain age.

Real Simple Syndication had been a way to get around Chinese government censors. But feeds have now been curtailed by the Great Firewall.

When you give a kid a net connection, access to wikipedia and to the rest of the world, things change fast. Like a ten year old who can diagnose his dad's illness. Or a farmer that can ask his daughter to find out where to get a new part for the tractor.

They bring us 'Dipnote,' apparently short for 'diplomatic note' in DoS jargon (or 'dipspeak').

Digital media giant Thomson Corp., which sells legal, financial and medical information to businesses and professionals, is eyeing an expansion into high-end social networking sites that would operate like much more exclusive versions of Facebook for stockbrokers and lawyers.

From former LexBlog client Henry Abbott, "My vision, and it may be total fantasy, is that people just get more used to hearing from humans talking as humans -- with nuance and foibles. That might be a little scary for brands that don't like frank talk.

New report from BTI Consulting Group finds Skadden leads way in getting most work from corporate counsel.

Main stream media professionals see burgeoning blog arena offering greater opportunities.

Daithí Mac Síthigh, a graduate student at the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin, brings us the first Irish-hosted Blawg Review.

Evan Schaeffer brings us a 'medium-length edition' of posts from the past week by law students, some current or almost current, some recently-graduated.