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

Brown Law Offices' Minnesota Divorce & Family Law Blog, providing information and updates on divorce and family law in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.

From Ernie from Glen Burnie,' a partner at a Washington, DC law firm.

Cooperative blog by Canadian legal folks. Not sure we have anything rivaling it from the States.

Pretty site. Pictures of lawyers. 10 miles wide and 1/8 inch thick. No disclosure of who is behind this wonderful thing which will 'help you maximize your career potential and become more successful in your practice by networking with other attorneys across the nation.' Go back to 1999.

Pics from Tim Stanley's trip to Seattle, Bellingham, and Vancouver, including one from my office where we plotted the takedown of LexisNexis and Thomson-West FindLaw.

Ward Branch's Class Actions in Canada.

Texas lawyers are arguing which is the superior quality to be found in a criminal defense lawyer: empathy or ruthlessness.

Including suggestions to make sure that people nearby will not be able to see employees' laptop screens, such as: 'a nondescript bag will draw less attention than a traditional laptop bag.'

After four months, the Saudi Arabian government has released popular Saudi blogger Fouad Ahmad Al-Farhan without charge. Authorities arrested Fouad in December after warning him about posts supporting an activist group on his blog.

Even some points lawyers may not think of.

From Ken Odza, a principal in Stoel Rives' litigation practice group and chair of product liability initiative, the Food Liability Law Blog providing a discussion of emerging legal threats to the food industry.

Excellent primer from the UK's Business Zone.

Aggregates feeds from your Twitter account, blog, Flickr, LinkedIn, and 31 other types of social services and presents them in a single feed for your friends to read.

In 1978 a marketer at the now-defunct computer firm Digital Equipment Corporation, sent an email to 393 users of Arpanet, the US government-run computer network that eventually became the internet.

4 years ago, 1. Today, 638.

The subject of this week's legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer.

Corporate Attorney Hanna Hasl-Kelchner's Legal Literacy, uses current events and stories to help people learn from the mistakes of others.

Criminal offense for brands to seed positive messages online without making the origin of the message clear.

Unless someone already knows you extremely well, they are going to Google you.

Pick up a few ideas how to use LinkedIn.

It's not as flakey as some may think.

Congrats to Aviva Cuyler and her team.

The American Lawyer's new website includes a legal-news blog.

Austin's Jamie Spencer is tracking what is still a pretty small number.

‘The prosecution sees him only with one eye and it’s the evil eye,’ famed Wyoming defense lawyer Gerry Spence told jurors in his opening statement.

Check number 3 off the list of what's needed.

Tracked by Chicago's Dave Donoghue.

Buy in by lawyers and broad group of skills needed to chose a vendor and implement.

Whether you're on the fence about solo practice or looking to incorporate 21st century trends like technology, outsourcing and alternative billing into your practice or trying to select a practice area, Carolyn Elefant's book is a wealth of information.

#6 on Top Ten List for reasons Brett will return to Green Bay: Fearful the new QB in charge will rename “Titletown” as “Mr. Rodgers’ Neighborhood.

I'll take one World Series in my lifetime boys.

The American Association of Libraries' Washington Blawg covering policy issues, relevant events, news and resources regarding the law library community.

From the firm using Blogger for its blogs.

Please someone. Put these lawyers out of their misery.

A man facing a jail assault charge apparently didn't like the plea offered to him by his lawyer.

Attendees at the American Bar Association's ABA Techshow in Chicago have declared social-networking sites over.

Anonymous blogger gains readers in Connecticut and nationwide.

Scott Riddle has organized for lawyers and others who have a professional interest in Bankruptcy law in Georgia cases.

Legal Services Society of British Columbia's LawLine Journal, created to share some of the solutions to the legal problems of callers to their LawLine and to give some insight into the lives of legal aid lawyers as they serve the public with information and advice.

Gina Passarella of The Legal Intelligencer citing reports from LexBlog.

Slate Magazine's Convictions, with a large number of contributors, largely law professors, but also a few practicing lawyers and journalists.

Images on blog posts can result in marked improvement in readership and social media votes.

Raising money with a presentation of 140 characters or less? Just the type of company I'd love to work for.

Good concept of pulling blogs into central location. User interface and features leaves a lot to be desired.

Things continue to break well for lawyer rating's site.

The great thing about blogging is that establishing yourself as an expert is something within your control.

Spurned wife fights pack with video that is getting wide play on the net.

From Denver Attorney, Jeralyn Merritt, who covers politics with the best of them.

Aggrieved spouses going to court to stop the publication of the blogs run into free speech issues.

A sad commentary on life as a lawyer, that a category devoted to personal lives requires law-related content in order to 'fit' into ABA Journal's directory.

High quality criminals are retiring and the others are ratting out their friends as part of a deal.

Ontario's first independent legal magazine for young lawyers, Precedent, aims to provide 'the new rules of law and style.' You'll get legal news, fashion, and entertainment here -- all with a sense of humor.

When does case and statutory law begin?

Despite 40% of lawyers reporting things were pretty good, morale ranged from 'bad' to 'couldn't be worse' for over 40%. Hard to see the glass as half full as ATL describes results.

In the words of Walter Olson, Scott Greenfield ventilates (in the Warner Bros. sense of 'blasts holes in') an op-ed in today's NYT proposing the unleashing of legal services lawyers to go after mortgage lenders.

People overestimate the value of content and underestimate the value of a service that makes it useful.

From a very trusted guy who started it all.

Law.com and 3 law firms among winners.

90 minutes at $129 may be worthwhile for legal marketing professionals looking for answers.

Second annual mortgage fraud blog conference open for registration.

Besieged by the fallout from unprecedented flight cancellations, American Airlines says it wants to hear from its passengers.

Somehow don't think a blogging lawyer's clients and readers will care.

I too have struggled with these at one point or another.

Aimed at finding people who are tweeting their complaints about Comcast and offering to help.

From Greg May and The California Blog of Appeal.

If you want a law management or marketing seminar in your city, please call or write Ed so he can include you in his plans.

Topics discussed range from day to day use, how media companies are pushing their RSS feeds through them and how marketing and PR firms are using it to measure user feedback.

30 blogs from around the world written by Fulbright Scholars.

Most informative journalism blogs.

Gold as usual Marshall.

It may be a crowded niche, but a voice that's worth hearing will always be heard over ones that aren't.

Kids are perfectly able to handle whatever minor dangers they might face.

Mary Abraham's Above and Beyond KM discussing knowledge management in a way that goes above and beyond technology.

Ventura California lawyer, Greg May, offers a copy of this presentation to a local bar association.

A growing group of women lawyers are using the Internet--and, in particular, blogging-- to resolve their disputes, address their personal grievances, challenge implicit male bias engrained in the profession, and share and obtain the information they need to become stronger bargainers in the workplace.

Denise Howell: 'In 1963, the ABA considered 1,300 billable hours full-time. This Kennedy-era approach and my dad's insistence on being a dad seem far more suited to the mind-set of the twenty-first century legal workforce than today's firms have yet to recognize.'

Inspired by Dean back in days when I read blogs not with a newsreader, but remembering where to browse.

No surprise there.

Stephen Raymond's Perspectives from a Mediator/Arbitrator.

North Carolina lawyer Larry Staton's Scripting for Lawyers, a technology blog, where Larry's showing you how you can use scripts to 'boss around your apps.'

It's where the people you cover are hanging out and communicating and it will help you build sources, promote yourself, get story ideas and keep your finger on the pulse of the community you cover.

LexBlog hiring Ashley See as newest intern.

Business and personal video may have home away from YouTube where everyone seems to be out to find buzzworthy content.

Nice walk through of Flickr's advanced search from Dave Taylor.

Large law firms sponsoring MLB teams kind of cool. Doubt you get your logo on Derek Jeter's uniform though.

At a recent speech at Columbia University, Newsweek editor Jon Meacham asked who reads Newsweek. None of the 100-odd students in attendance raised their hands.

Starting own independent practice to be focused creatively and independently on helping general counsel better manage their departments and outside counsel. Further evidence of Dennis Kennedy's theory that effective blogging brings changes in employment.

From a group of UK lawyers, SOLO Independent IP Practitioners, a community discussion group for sole IP practitioners. See sin # 3 below.

Be mutually interesting. Be useful. Be convenient. People have enough obligations in the circles they currently frequent. Don’t build another damned place for them to go. Build stuff that fits and goes wherever they already are.

At the risk of promoting self serving lists of top blogs, here's Time's top 25.

And LexBlog has it's mark pending on the word 'blog.'

World Health Day edition of Blawg Review from David Harlow's HealthBlawg.

Nicole Black brings you interesting posts from her fellow New York law bloggers on weekly basis.

French Canadian blog, CultureLibre.ca published by Olivier Charbonneau, a professional librarian and researcher at Concordia University, discussing the Internet, intellectual property, digital life, libraries, and more.

David Maister among a growing number in our profession using Amazons' electronic book.

Quite a list from divine angst.

'Twitter sounds idiotic at first. It's true. But it's also true it's changed my life and career a bazillion ways.'

If you’re using Twitter for personal, corporate use, or to manage the brand of a client, you’ll need the right tools to find and engage the discussions.

By doing so you learn how politics really works. You learn that politicians love power above all else and will do anything to keep it.

Great read from Scott Greenfield.

New book just out by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff.

Sunday's NY times.

A journalist-turned-lawyer, who blogs prolifically on media issues, has been particularly scathing of the government's practice.

Where legends are made?

Take it down or else is the word to publisher of blog, using the company's name.

Anonymous blog a violation of state election law.

All manner of unexpectedly harsh critiques denouncing the government of the Islamic Republic, from both reformists who revile it and conservative supporters.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good. --W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

The Flying Pickle had been able to find a major local audience and boost advertising revenue by organizing its best posts each week into a print edition that it delivered via post directly to the homes of local residents.

Responding to yesterday's LA Times story Brett thinks it's kind of funny that even when he's retired, they won't let him stay retired.

LexBlog client Marler Clark -- the Washington state firm that's cornered the blog market on food poisoning is now publishing the Botulism Blog, providing surveillance and analysis on botulism news and outbreaks.

The Borings, a Pittsburgh couple, are suing Google for 'intentional and/or grossly reckless invasion' of privacy because Google's 'Street View' feature has made their home viewable on the Internet.

May be up to four of them.

Puts Newspapers, which are in dire financial straits, at a disadvantage.

From Ontario, Simpson Wigle LLP Tax News dedicated to providing current and relevant tax information business owners and their advisers.

If Beijing wants to improve its human rights image in the run-up to the Olympic Games, it has a funny way of showing it.

Someone believes there is money in a blog network supported by ads.

Employees should be at risk when employee's blogging choices raise serious doubts about ability to perform their job properly.

Lame and childish. With the firm's resources, issue could be resolved more productively.

Will provide daily oversight and creative guidance for Kodak's blogs and serve as the company's eyes and ears online, listening to customer feedback and sharing ideas and tips related to Kodak's products and services.

Canada's premier legal technology conference.

The blog lacks RSS which makes it hard it call a blog.

Well, not exactly. Avvo does have a new member of their team though, and his name is Martin Dale.

From LexBlog client Kevin LaCroix, The D&O Diary, covering items of interest from the world of director and officers liability.

Series of blogs to evangelize services, strengthen brand, and provide company a voice.

Latest in a string of key departures at Microsoft and raises questions about Microsoft's ability to retain talent in the Web 2.0 world.

Who'd have known.

Wake up guys. Firms are doing this because it makes them more effective on the web. If your old website isn't generating 'ROI' it's because its old technology and dead end information.

Boston Herald piece, among others, I'm seeing come out of Massachusetts on Avvo's first day of including that state's lawyers.

LexBlog client Corporate Recovery Associates', The Creditors' Resource, providing useful information for unsecured creditors.

New Jersey Supreme Court relents on its refusal to provide layer ratings website the names and basic information on lawyers licensed in New Jersey.