It’s an amazing afternoon out in Missoula, MT as it’s time to do the daily roundup of the best posts from around the LexBlogosphere. There were several posts about the bailout and the ongoing economic turmoil. Most notably: Max Kennerly uses his entertaining writing style in a post on the lesson lawyers should learn from the… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: September 2008
FindLaw scores low on the ‘Truth-O-Meter’
Last month FindLaw Lawyer Marketing was caught selling links to law firm websites, a violation of Google’s guidelines and a practice considered unethical SEO – search engine optimization. Rather than acknowledge its errors, FindLaw responded that it did not sell links to law firm websites. FindLaw said the story of selling links arose out of… Continue Reading
Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 9/29/08
The Dow fell the most points in history and the bailout plan failed. Surprisingly, there were relatively few–but still some–posts on that. Today, a couple of the more interesting posts are on social networks: jobseekers are turning to social networking sites over career sites and attorneys are starting to use them as a tool in jury selection…. Continue Reading
Essential law blog pages needed to promote yourself
Amir Helzer, a blogger and webmaster who runs ICanLocalize, a technology-based translation service, guest posts this morning at Problogger offering some ideas on how a website could be run on blog software. Helzir reviews the specific ‘static pages’ necessary for a business services’ website that would need to be set up with the blog software…. Continue Reading
Blogs in Plain English video
Courtesy of Seattle’s Common Craft.
LinkedIn in Plain English video
With the growing use of LinkedIn by lawyers and legal marketing professionals I thought my friend Lee Lefever’s video, LinkedIn in Plain English, would be of interest. LinkedIn came to Lee’s company Common Craft to help address the question of how to get more from LinkedIn connections in video form. As Lee says, ‘Ultimately, it’s… Continue Reading
Twitter demographics : More business people than kids
Just anecdotal evidence, but I find Twitter users a fairly affluent and upwardly mobile group. They tend toward being business people, as opposed to kids. I’ve been following a TweetDeck RSS feed of a Bainbridge Island Twitter Search and a Seattle Twitter Search for the last month. Bainbridge Island being the 22,000 person Island on… Continue Reading
Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 9/26/08
As with most Fridays, the flow of posts slowed down a bit. Still, there was some quality material: you can add California to the lists of states outlawing texting while driving and Jeff Neuburger discusses cloud computing, something often written about but rarely is it properly explained. Continuing coverage health insurance laws in New Hampshire –… Continue Reading
Legal News : LexBlogosphere:9/25/08
Summer is still putting up a fight out in Missoula but as we roll into fall people get back to business and the posts keep flowing in. The increase in great posts continued today. No commonalities but it’s worth noting that the President has signed ADA Amendments Act of 2008, a topic that’s been mentioned… Continue Reading
Legal News – LexBlogosphere : 9/24/08
Once again, there was no major story dominating the legal conversation. As with most days, we do focus on the best entries on current events and recent legal decisions. Today they range from the fact that you can get a DWI in New Jersey for letting a drunk driver drive your car to Hurricane Ike… Continue Reading
Palm Springs estate planning lawyer gets local news coverage first day blog is live
Palm Springs estate planning lawyer Daryl Binkley launched his Desert Estate Planning Law Blog yesterday afternoon. In less than 24 hours, Binkley’s blog was picked up by the Desert Sun in an announcement headlined ‘New Internet blog covers estate planning law.’ The Desert Sun owned by Gannett Publications is the sole local daily newspaper serving… Continue Reading
Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 9/23/08
Like yesterday, today’s topics run the gamut. Everyone’s tastes and interests are different but my favorite from the crop is Carolyn Elefant’s post on two attorneys who decided to start their own law firms, one by choice and one who had to. Firemen’s Fundraiser May be Victim of E. coli Regulation Loopholes – The blogging… Continue Reading
Large law bozosity? Jones Day is grabbing lots of attention
Preposterous and a candidate for the ‘grossest abuse of trademark law to suppress speech the plaintiff doesn’t like,’ is how Public Citizen lawyer Paul Levy describes Jones Day’s lawsuit against an Internet site for mentioning the Jones Day name without permission. The Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Alison Grant reports on the suit brought by the multi-national… Continue Reading
Law Blogs: ‘The Great Equalizer’ : Wisconsin Bar Magazine
UW Law School’s Bonnie Sucha reports this month’s edition of the Wisconsin Lawyer, the state’s monthly bar magazine, has an excellent article on blogging. And who am I to disagree with Bonnie’s assessment of the article. I wrote it. The essence of the four page article is blogs as a ‘new’ tool advancing an ‘old’… Continue Reading
Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 9/22/08
Where the last few roundups from across the LexBlogosphere have had a bit of reason and categorization to them, this one is completely different. Today’s entries come on as wide a range of topics as we’ve seen with no major event dominating the headlines. Employee Blogs: The Risks and Rewards – Johnette Hassell, founder and… Continue Reading