Meaning no disrespect to those who do it, I find personal injury attorneys sometimes struggle maintaining the appropriate balance between establishing a level of editorial credibility and working to find clients. In their realm, the former should always come first as prominent personal injury stories should be written with a high level of sensitivy. Today,… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Philip Thomas of Mississippi Litigation Review & Commentary: LexBlog Q&A
"If someone is interested in what is going on in civil litigation in Mississippi, they are going to find their way to my blog." Mississippi personal injury attorney Philip Thomas isn’t bragging when he says that. He’s simply stating the facts of how his blog, Mississippi Litigation Review & Commentary, has become a go-to resource… Continue Reading
Best in Law Blogs : LexBlog Network : September 29, 2009
It’s become almost common knowledge in the business and marketing realm that proper use of social media can be very effective for customer service. Even with this knowledge, it’s always interesting to see how it’s applied and in which situations it comes through the strongest. Today, Jim Walker has an interesting post on how cruise lines have… Continue Reading
Quick tips re guest authors on law blogs
I exchanged emails this morning with Nashville IP Attorney Amy Eveehart who is writing an article for the ABA Women’s Advocacy Committee Newsletter on the effectiveness of guest-blogging in rainmaking. She asked me if I had any suggestions or thoughts I’d be willing to share with her readers. Here were my quick thoughts. The key… Continue Reading
Best in Law Blogs : LexBlog Network : September 28, 2009
It’s Monday and it is past 5 o’clock for everyone in the continental US. Kick back, put on Monday Night Football (coming to you tonight from that ridiculous stadium in Dallas) and check out a few of these posts. For the football fans, we even have a post on the NFL’s tampering rule and its application… Continue Reading
Americans use of social networking and blog sites triples in last year
Hat tip to Joe Trippi who turned me onto a new report from The Nielsen Company that Americans have nearly tripled the amount of time they spend at social networking and blog sites from a year ago. Per Jon Gibs, vice president, media and agency insights, Nielsen’s online division: This growth suggests a wholesale change… Continue Reading
Are the good law blog niche subjects already taken?
Earlier this week Steve Rubel appeared on Canadian TV to discuss blogging. In part of his interview Steve maintained it’s “difficult today to build a profitable blog since many of the big niches are taken.” Reminded me of the concern of many LexBlog clients. That being we don’t want to start a niche law blog… Continue Reading
LexBlog Law Network Roundup – 9/25/09
Another week down and while autumn and winter get a little bit closer, it’s still gorgeous out here in Seattle. Today, we have a legal perspective on a story that has made it to the front of the Seattle Times (or at least the online version). Lisa Williams of Williams Kastner has some insight on… Continue Reading
New blogs joining LexBlog Network for the week of 9/21-9/25
Well, week one at the new LexBlog office has been great. The total for launches in week one at LexBlog headquarters 2.0 is seven and one very cool news portal. Of those eight projects, AmLaw 200 firms had a hand in three. Pretty amazing stuff. Much like last week’s launch of Food Safety News, Global… Continue Reading
Mike Danko of Aviation Law Monitor – LexBlog Q&A
We often talk about how a savvy law blogger can be viewed an authority and a thought-leader by smart blogging, using their expertise to share knowledge in a readable, user-friendly way. Aviation attorney Mike Danko, who blogs at Aviation Law Monitor, has done just that. "My phone rings as soon as an aviation accident makes… Continue Reading
LexBlog Law Network Roundup – 9/24/09
The First Amendment has always been an interesting subject. At a majority of journalism schools, students take a class that’s almost entirely devoted to the subject. Yes, "freedom of speech" for everyone sounds easy enough but what if the message and means of spreading that message are so horrendous that something must be done? Well, that would… Continue Reading
Engaging with the media LexBlog client webinar: recording and chart
Thanks to all who attended today’s webinar on Engaging with the Media: How to Become a Go-To Source. We had close to 120 attendees and some action on Twitter under the hashtag #LBSM, which shows the level of interest in this topic. You can view the recording of the webinar, or download the PDF of… Continue Reading
LexBlog Law Network Roundup – 9/23/09
One of the hot legal cases of the past couple months or so has been on allegations of racism at a swim club in Pennsylvania. Max Kennerly has done a good job of covering and providing analsyis on this case; he continues do so with a solid update today. It’s just one of ten interesting… Continue Reading
LexBlog Law Network Roundup – 9/22/09
Something of everything covered in today’s roundup, tons of different practice areas. We have construction law, legal marketing, estate planning, shareholder disputes and food safety. With those and more, there should be something in there more than worth a read for everyone. New Food Safety Legislation is needed – to protect the public and to put a… Continue Reading
Twitter for client development for lawyers : Being an intelligence agent as good as it gets
Imagine 15 years ago as a practicing lawyer taking 30 minutes in the morning to skim news headlines from 400 or 500 reliable news sources you selected because they offered news and commentary related to your work as well as monitoring keywords relevant to your area of law (clients’ names, subjects, cases, and the like)… Continue Reading