Newly unemployed venting their frustrations by blogging their stories and grievances are attracting the wrath of former employers by using or exposing confidential information, violating a non-compete agreement or defaming a former employer.
The ability to use your own voice, talk in the manner you feel most comfortable, and get your point across without digressing too much will do.
$15 million from the man who could be called Mr. Scalability makes this an awesome partnership to tackle Twitter's biggest obstacle.
Added the greatest number of high-tech jobs in 2006, outpacing Boston, San Francisco and more than 50 other U.S. cities. Not sure that's good when LexBlog is in hiring mode.
If you aren't using online social networks in one form or another, you are well behind the productivity curve.
Blogging lawyers from Hawaii featured in Honolulu Star Bulletin.
Plans to use the blog to comment on 'the desultory state of corporate governance in America,' and to comment on his effort to oust Yahoo's current board of directors.
Red Cross is using sites like Utterz, Flickr, YouTube and Twitter.
Registrations of .cn domains surged 23% in the first quarter of this year, and tripled year-over-year. Surpasses .net and now second most popular country-specific domain.
Not advocating doing it every day but there’s something quite special that happens when you do. It humanizes you as a blogger a little, shows a different side of you, makes you more relatable to your readers and gives them another potential connecting point with you.
Sharing a common enemy may be the most powerful strategy for bonding with your blog audience. It kicks in the innate tribal instincts we humans still carry, and provides a voice of opposition that your readers want to join with.
Former UC Berkeley student who was arrested in Egypt and used the micro-messaging service Twitter to get himself out of jail wants to start a Twitter-driven network for emergency situations.
Kindle may make it after all.
There's so much more to the people on Twitter and a ton more to come as Twitter breaks into the masses of mainstream.
Citing short excerpts with attribution and subsequent commentary, as many bloggers do seems perfectly consistent with fair use -- and AP should't have attacked that particular practice.
And we're supposed to buy $30 tickets and $8 beers?
Unless you're drawing huge traffic, it won't have any data for your blog, which is a shame considering the smaller bloggers may be the biggest users of the product.
Published by Androvett media consultant Robert Tharp, a former law and criminal justice reporter at The Dallas Morning News and The Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
A job seeker today who wants to enter a new field, or wants to move up in an existing field, only needs to start writing a blog on that topic.
It's tough evaluating the ROI on building relationships and enhancing your reputation done by networking, speaking, and blogging.
Plaintiff injured when a metal fastener attaching a rhinestone heart to a thong snapped off and hit her in the eye as she was changing clothes.
Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board filed five formal counts of misconduct against Philadelphia Traffic Court Judge Willie F. Singletary.
Member of a campaign to try to gather 1 million signatures in support of greater women's rights in the Islamic Republic.
'Things are moving so fast in race relations a Negro could be president in 40 years. There's no question about it,' Attorney General Robert Kennedy said in an address to Voice of America in 1968.
Anti consumer for Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission to deny Avvo easy access to lawyers' complete record.
You can reach out beyond the boundaries of South Buffalo. There is a bigger world out there.
Lawyer's job is to use past circumstances to predict and minimize the risk in a contingent future; the entrepreneur views that very contingency as stock in trade.
A blog dedicated to the development of Catholic legal theory.
Indymac Bank's corporate blog.
Ran the wrong copy for the firm's ad changing the practice focus of what is currently a litigation boutique and putting the firm in a false light.
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The Cubs win their 11th straight at Wrigley Field and up their home record to 29-8. In 1907—the year before the Cubs won their last World Series— they also started their home schedule 29-8.
TechnoLawyer video features 14 of the bloggers who contributed to the eBook as well as many other legal industry insiders.
5 tips to help you achieve what I preach to a lot of lawyers.
2 top my list. Your blog looks like everyone else’s. Get rid of those useless widgets.
Canucks lead the way again.
Politicians unlikely to succeed in making cyberbullying illegal.
Law firm survival in economic hard times from Brian Ritchey's More Partner Income.
Some speedy post ideas that can help, without compromising your blog too much.
Labor attorney Seth Borden has joined law firm Kilpatrick Stockton of efcaupdates and Workplace Horizons blog fame.
Martindale Hubbell's rating system may be meaningful to other attorneys or corporate counsel, but the average consumer of legal services is unlikely to be persuaded by the arcane system of letter grades even if they know it exists.
Still waiting for a firm to step up and show they can be more than mere window dressing.
Words of wisdom for when I feel I don't have another blog post in me.
Nicole Black's regular offering for NY lawyers.
Compares his starting lawyer salary of $71,000 in 1998 with today’s paychecks and declares that salaries and bonuses have risen 132 percent in a decade.
In a public relations feud with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a company executive secretly posted blogs slamming a farmworker advocacy group.
Part of our American youth passes with the death of sportscaster Jim McKay at 86.
For solos, solos to be or lawyers who want to build business within their law firms, a series of programs that will help you implement these ideas and build relationships with other lawyers at the same time.
$19.95 calendar of 12 beautiful Massachusetts lawyers, both men and women with proceeds going to Greater Boston Legal Services.
Charged in a Singapore court over comments he made on his blog and in an e-mail that were critical of the judge presiding over a defamation case.
Thanks Google.
Whether the topic is layoffs or love affairs, it seems that no subject is too edgy for sites such as Above the Law and the WSJ Law Blog.
Indeed Anthony.
Thanks to Norm Pattis for making this trial come alive for me. Possibly Gerry Spence's last trial.
After discovering (gasp!) images of houses in the town on Google Maps, the town demanded that Google take down the images -- which Google did.
Bridging East and West, enlightening the legal world about China, and enlightening our China readers about the legal world.
Commenting on blogs gives people the sense that you are passionate and knowledgeable about a topic, interested in reaching beyond promoting yourself and your brand/product/company, and genuinely interested in what they have to say.
Chris Brogan opens a floodgate.
