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

When you implement a social networking plan, you must keep several issues in mind.

LexBlog client Richard Webb's a Healthcare Neutral ADR Blog with lots of discussion on arbitration, mediation, and other issues as they relate to medical malpractice claims, hospitals and medical staff, and other healthcare matters.

Kevin Thompson says 144 is the number of guests that Bilbo Baggins invited to his 111th birthday party.

What happens to a blog post once you hit the 'publish' button.

Reading blogs can be like reading your opponent's brief for the first time -- you're pretty certain you know that's not the law, but if you don't read the cases cited, it looks pretty nauseatingly right.

Material from Belgium and Canada as well.

Good blog I had not been reading of late - Minor Wisdom from New Orleans Appellate lawyer Raymond Ward. Thanks Ed and Dan.

Founder/CEO of company with 68 million active users opens up with Robert Scoble at Davos.

Two reports from the Project for Excellence in Journalism.

May be that about half of the signers of Declaration of Independence were lawyers.

New blog from Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law to bridge the divide between the academy and the practicing community by creating a venue for leading practitioners to engage with academics, students, the public, and others in the criminal law field.

What if you took all of the lawyer blogs within Florida, and mixed them into a single location online? Steve Matthew's Florida Blog Watch with Florida lawyer Ron Chapman serving as his regional lookout for new lawyer blogs.

DLA Piper's new social networking site provides the firm with the dual advantage of saving on sending out hard copy news about the firm, but more importantly it lets trainees feel part of the DLA network.

Congrats to Willamette Law School Professor Ross Runkel also the publisher of Law Memo, an excellent employment law email newsletter designed for lawyers with expert summaries of decisions from all federal and state appellate courts.

The US District Court in Idaho has decided that lawyers can copyright their demand letters. Bloggers won't be able to post cease and desist letters on their blogs if the lawyer remembered to include a valid copyright notice. Look forward to seeing more '©' on your legal correspondence.

Oregon Legal Reseach blog is tracking them.

What if law reviews were peer reviewed by blog comments rather than by traditional, selected peer reviewers?

Fast Company's advertising sales were up 40% last year. The Magazine is investing in journalism. In editing. In content.

Josh Fruchter's new blog on best practices for law firm websites, lawyer blogs and podcasts, and other law firm Internet marketing initiatives.

Blogher co-founder on ABCNews. "What we want. When we want it. Ability to speak with other women about what we love."

Demonstrates your interests and skills to potential employers.

Thought scientists were smarter than lawyers.

From Global Voices, a nice guide on citizen journalism.

The New York Times has invested $30 Million in Automattic, the web based commercial arm of the Wordpress blog platform.

Responsible for communicating the value of all LexisNexis brands and product platforms as well as the transformation of the company into a total solutions provider. Best of luck.

Unique visitors to newspaper Web sites rose 6 percent last year to monthly average of 60 million despite the fact that the majority of newspapers have bad Web products and most papers haven't put significant resources into them.

LexBlog client Nicholas Weston's Australian Trade Marks Law Blog, designed to 'communicate with U.S. law firms and others seeking a reliable source of information and commentary on Australian Trade Marks.

Scary as hell, but I'm using Twitter now too.

Lively, high-profile bloggers attract traffic to their own blogs, but also by discussing content appearing elsewhere on the site, help to raise the profile of the site as a whole.

Build a blog. If your company doesn't already publish a blog, start one this year. More and more Internet media researchers, journalists and consumers are turning to blogs for up-to-the-minute information and personal perspectives.

Nice resource from Lee Rosen's North Carolina family law and divorce law firm

California applellate attorney Donna Bader's An Appeal to Reason.

Winners in first-ever bar association YouTube contest announced.

The ones that most altered the online legal landscape' this past year.

When a ban is imposed in a criminal case, restricting the publication of the names of victims or accused criminals or details of the case, this applies to all forms of publication - including Internet sites like Facebook and blogs - not just media outlets.

No truth that a new LexBlog niche law blog program.

A list of watering holes where members of the digital press have been known to go and blow their meager salaries on booze.

LexBlog client Atlanta personal injury lawyer Robert N. Katz' Georgia Injury Law Blog.

This week's Lawyer2Lawyer explores privacy rights, intellectual property issues and even defamation and cyber bullying, all rising from social networking sites.

Prior blog,'The Great Change - Turning Cathy into a Lawyer,' a little dated. She can now speak with what Cathy calls her 'shiny new lawyerly voice.'

OSU law professor Douglas Berman, blogger at Sentencing Law & Policy and Law School Innovation, is using a blog to support his 1L Legislation course this Spring.

LexBlog client Ronald Chapman's Palm Beach Criminal Defense Blog, where he discusses criminal defense issues pertinent to Florida residents.

Some recent law-related podcasts worth tuning into from Bob Ambrogi.

Gideon's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day edition.

Former Special Forces soldier has created a loyal following on the Web with his accounts of frontline soldiers' daily work.

New blog from Frank Ramos offering litigation insight on such topics as deposition techniques and expert research.

FindLaw owner Thomson and Reuters should finalize their $17 billion merger early in the second quarter.

$75 million to $100 million of revenues in 2008 and 18 million people with profiles on the site, twice as many as a year ago.

The-Shakespeare-and-More Edition from St. Louis lawyer Evan Shaeffer.

Wonderful.

In 2005, there were 9 million blogs, with about 40 thousand new ones each day. Technorati now indexes 112 million blogs, with 120 thousand new ones appearing each day.

StumbleUpon leads in voting at ProBlogger.

Toronto lawyer Dan Michaluk's employment and labour law blog.

LexBlog clients Kevin Merriman, Sara Thorp, Michael Aylward, Diane Polscer, and Christopher Martin with National Insurance Law Forum, a public service intended to facilitate discussion and an exchange of ideas and information among insurance industry professionals, risk managers, attorneys, policyholders, students, and others.

Lawyer Eric Menhart trademarked 'cyberlaw.' In response, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law is changing its address from cyber.law.harvard.edu to eric.menhart.harvard.edu, will rename its annual conference to the EricMenhart conference, and is petitioning Google to do a search-and-replace on the 75,400 pages containing Harvard berkman cyberlaw.

Balkinization, Althouse, U Chicago, Leiter Law School and The Conglomerate.

During November, 138 million people, or three-quarters of Internet users in the U.S., watched on average 3 hours and 15 minutes of online video, or 45 minutes more than they watched in January.

Will surpass the U.S. online community this year to become the world's largest.

February 1 is the deadline for a $100 early bird discount.

It's complex to fit antiquated fair use legal concepts into the current digital world where so much content is amateur created.

Lawyer makes ridiculous claims based on his trademark of 'cyberlaw.'

With four office locations in the greater Pittsburgh area and with lawyers willing to meet with clients anywhere, that's more than virtual.

Blog devoted to criminal laws regulating and punishing sexual violence by John Marshall Law School Professor Corey Rayburn Yung.

Service providers charging more for increased Internet use can contribute to a tide that lifts all boats, including their own.

Blog by English family lawyer John Bolch of Chatham, Kent.

Conclusion: (a) you already have one in your own trade dress, (b) so don't change it, and (c) don't go any further and embarrass yourself.

Stephen Fairley's The Rainmaker Blog discussing such topics as offline, online and referral-based marketing.

Chicago divorce lawyer with the racy billboards kickoffs her 'Lawyer of Love' column at Playboy with a nude pictorial.

ouTube viewership grew 9% according to Nielsen, Metacafe grew 27% and Yahoo! Video viewership fell 60%.

6 tips from the UK's Kelvin Newman.

Upcoming DC conference with David Lat of Abovethelaw and Mark Britton of Avvo, and Carolyn Elefant.

Surprising that more real estate lawyers are not blogging to strengthen relationships with local referral sources such as banks, realtors, title companies, and the like.

National Public Radio's blog and radio series called 'My Cancer' an amazing portraly of life living, and dying, with cancer.

We have the Internet, wireless, Starbucks and Apple stores.

Burney Consultants' ediscoveryinfo blending coverage of electronic discovery issues and legal technology info.

Letters to a new lawyer from Susan Cartier Liebel.

Steve Matthews is one to be watched. Expect plenty of good stuff.

Posts by future and current law students from divine angst.

Part three from Sam Hasler, a Hoosier divorce & family Lawyer.

Grandfather of online communities doing weekly video documenting the way he uses social media in his personal and professional life.

For bloggers staring at a blank screen searching for inspiration.

American Library Association midwinter conference hears stories of scientific successes.

Family Court judge orders retired minister to stop blog alleging state Department of Children, Youth and Families used 'bogus theory' to take a mother's two daughters from her.

LexBlog client Las Vegas attorney Timothy Titolo's Brain & Spine Injury Law Blog talking about traumatic brain injury (TBI) and its causes, epidemiology, prevention, rehabilitation, and treatment.

Underscores the increasing importance of running a law firm as a global business.

Cathy Yingling, managing director of public relations firm Young & Laramore.

Another terrific niche blog, says Migell, the Asset Search Blog published by LexBlog client, Fred Abrams, a New York attorney who has recovered tens of millions of dollars hidden in offshore tax havens.

Connie Crosby leaving position as library manager at her law firm.

You may make more money because of it than with it.

Former Presidential candidate and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson praises Daily Kos and bloggers involvement in the political process.

LexBlog client Daniel Schwartz' Connecticut Employment Law Blog covering new and noteworthy developments in the labor and employment law field.

Digital Libraries among 10 technologies that will transform your life.

With the S&P down 5% in 2008, it doesn't bode well for M&A deals, which have been a law-firm gravy train these last few years.

Douglas McCollam, most recently a senior editor at Legal Times, former practicing lawyer in his native New Orleans, and American Lawyer veteran.

Arnie Herz has got the coverage and insight.

Laws were written when it was impossible to imagine a day when anyone and everyone could be their own instant publisher.

10 features in FeedDemon that sets it apart from most of the online news readers competition. And it's free now.

From Erica Marie DeWolf's eMarketing & New Media blog.

Anne Skove's new blog pitches itself as the 'least dangerous blog.' As Eric Turkewitz says, 'What fun is that?'

Hoping I don't need to put up one of these web pages in 30 years to remind people.

Only 75 hours till kickoff on the frozen tundra.

From LexBlog client, Steven D. Eversole, the Alabama Divorce and Family Law Attorney Blog.

Legal marketing expert Tom Kane gives marching orders for '08.

Is Eric Goldman infectious?

Doc Searls sees Twitter as a river of Tweets.

As Dave Winer says, if Obama is elected, he will be the first President who is younger than I am.

From the Surya Yalamanchali at the LinkedIn Blog.

Thought I heard Julie Andrews for a second. Nope, Jon Katz' list of mostly criminal defense law blogs.

Robin Sparkman named executive editor of ALM's The American Lawyer. Follows her success at ALM's Corporate Counsel.

An OK by one of the more restrictive jurisdictions on lawyer advertising a good sign for Super Lawyer designation.

Roger Clemens files a defamation action in Houston against trainer who alleged steroid use in Mitchell investigation.

'Our employees possess a wealth of knowledge about every aspect of travel, from where to go, what to do, how to find the best deals and how to make the travel experience more enjoyable.'

LexBlog client and California Attorney Theresa Erickson's Egg Donation and Surrogacy Law Blog.

'And now these people who are supposedly regulating it, tell me it's bad for my heart,' says Roger Clements.

Weekly feauture from Nicole Black.

Enough said.

New addition from Sante Fe Attorney Gini Nelson.

Orlando Sentinel eliminates national NASCAR coverage to focus on more local sports coverage.

Not made a profit. Seeking $100 million. Nuts.

One of the longest ones I've seen. Could we expect any less from Charon QC?

You'll be making a difference in people's lives.

Bring your furry hats.

And I thought I was getting up there at 3,500. Rick Hasen puts me to shame.

Nearly Legal is joined by William Flack.

'Among blogs, I looked often at the authoritative SCOTUS Blog, the encyclopedic How Appealing, and the irresistible, if much diminished Underneath Their Robes.'

From Boston area attorney Steven Ballard, looks to be good read.

Survey says fair use may be far more relevant than has previously been assumed in discussion of user-generated content.

Per Greg Storey, read and learn.

We've got to get these guys as blog clients.

Crazy Canucks, but newspaper editor does hope the project will encourage 50-somethings to blog and also increase computer literacy.

Rees Morrison provides a list of publications that target in-house lawyers.

The company ditches the philosophy of "more features, more better" in favor of simplicity and accessibility: Focus only on the most important features and make things easier to use.

Jeremiah Owyang updates what was one of his top viewed posts for the year, 2007.

'Maybe someone just remembers that odd uncle.'

Cordell Parvin's Law Consulting Blog motivating and inspiring lawyers to identify and achieve their purpose, values and goals.