Real Lawyers Have Blogs : Law Blogs, Blawgs, Law Firm Marketing

Labor Day, end of summer, and start of the football season from Austin's Jamie Spencer.

You could do a lot worse.

Whether by Twitter or social networking websites people are using social media to track Hurricane Gustav and prepare to react to needs generated around the storm.

Most law firm associates, summer associates and law students are on Facebook so currying favor with their own associates and prospective hires makes sense for large law.

If there is a concerned group of folks worried about dangerous chemicals leaking into the drinking water, it could put that story up, and if enough people contribute to the investigation, a reporter can get paid and do the investigation.

I define myself by who I follow, I follow smart people who teach me things and put interesting stuff in my view.

They have a Flickr stream. And a Twitter feed.. 

$10,000 a day per reporter while bloggers spend about $200 to $300 a day. No wonder newspapers are losing their ass.

McGlinchey Stafford post titles a little ahead of those from other large law firm blogs.

Stock car races in 2012 Olympics in Chicago.

And I thought everyone just posted notes to their blog or Twitter.

Save the country. Save the children. Get a chip on your shoulder. Get angry and happy about something. Stretch big. Talk hard. And do something.