This isn't the first time we've chatted with Lori: she discussed the blog legal sanity in our Five Questions with Arnie & Lori Herz last month. But now she's back in the spotlight after launching her blog Write for Clients yesterday.

1. Rob La Gatta: When and how did the development of this blog come about?

Lori Herz: Write for Clients has been in the works for several months. It’s a second-generation LexBlog blog for me. I’m the co-producer of legal sanity, an early LexBlog creation that launched in 2004 and is still going strong today. Although I’ve written professionally for over 15 years, I got my blogging feet wet through legal sanity. As a creator and consumer of online content for service professionals, I’m now hooked on the medium. When I started my own business writing and communications consulting venture a year ago, I knew I wanted to publish a companion blog. Once I was ready to start the design-development process, I contacted LexBlog and off we went. I was very hands-on in the production. The team at LexBlog took all my ideas – from design elements to navigation – and patiently translated my vision into a terrific site.

2. Rob La Gatta: What do you hope to get out of your LexBlog blog?

Lori Herz: I hope that my blog will help service professionals better understand how business writing can be a powerful relationship tool that connects you to people you work with and want to work with. I’ll strive to generate a conversation with my readers about creating clear, compelling and client-focused Web and print content. I subscribe to over 100 blogs that cover a range of topics relevant to business writing for service professionals. From marketing, branding and communication to law firm management and practice, I enjoy culling information from a variety of sources to address my readers’ needs, questions and concerns with regard to content writing and distribution. In addition to offering insights and ideas on business writing for service professionals, my blog also promotes my own business services. I don’t have a traditional business website. From the start, I intended my blog to be the hub of my online presence and marketing initiatives.

3. Rob La Gatta: If you read other blogs, what are some of your favorites?

Lori Herz: I regularly read and enjoy many, many blogs. You can check out the blogroll at Write for Clients. Here’s just a small sampling of my personal feed favorites:

• Real Lawyers Have Blogs (you knew that was coming)
• legal sanity (O.K., that one, too)
• Amazing Firms, Amazing Practices
• Brand Autopsy
• Brazen Careerist
• Build A Solo Practice
• Church of the Customer Blog
• Copyblogger
• Escape from Cubicle Nation
• Golden Practices
• My Shingle
• Passion, People and Principles
• Presentation Zen
• Seth Godin's Blog
• Steve Pavlina’s Personal Development Blog
• Web Ink Now
• What About Clients?

Keep checking back for updates. As more new clients enter the LexBlogosphere, we'll be there to speak with them.

1. Rob La Gatta: When and how did the development of this blog come about?

Daniel A. Schwartz: A perfect storm of events. I've always had this interest in topics in employment law that no one else seemed to be writing about. At the same time, earlier this year I started reading blogs not only on employment law topics, but other topics too. I'm a Senior Director of the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division and we started putting together programming for our Spring meeting. We thought of doing a program on legal blogs and invited Kevin to speak. I thought it would be fun.

When Kevin did a presentation at our Spring Meeting in Montreal, I reached out to him and began talking and thinking seriously about combining my interest in employment law with a blog. Kevin was really terrific about the process and gave me some ideas to think about. From there, its just been figuring out how to make this work. I'm really pleased with where we are today.

2. Rob La Gatta: What do you hope to get out of your LexBlog blog?

Daniel A. Schwartz: I hope to be known as one of the go-to experts in employment law in Connecticut. I know, lofty goal, but in a smaller state like Connecticut, I think it's attainable. I see some other so-called experts in the area and realize that my credentials and qualifications are as good as or exceed them. At the same time, my parents have always emphasized the need to be humble, so I'll just settle with increasing my exposure in the state while providing a place where employment law topics are discussed, evaluated and examined.

3. Rob La Gatta: If you read other blogs, what are some of your favorites?

Daniel A. Schwartz: You know, I really enjoy a mix of blogs. For law-related blogs, I get a kick out of the Wall Street Journal Law Blog and the tabloid blog, Above the Law. Jim Calloway's Law Practice Tips Blog has some great practical tips. For employment law, the Workplace Prof Blog and the new Manpower Employment Blog are two that seem to be putting out some good content lately (as well as Workplace Horizons.) And two of the "big" blogs: George's Employment Blawg and How Appealing have been on my reading list since the start.

But a lot of the legal blogging and marketing sites have been a great resource and inspiration too, including Kevin's blog, Larry Bodine's blog and Micro Persuasion have been a great start. I should also note that Francis Pileggi of the Delaware Corporate and Commercial Litigation Blog was kind enough to give me some pointers before starting and he pointed me to Professor Bainbridge's blog too.

And of course, since I learned how to use RSS feeds, I can browse those in a second.

1. Rob La Gatta: When and how did the development of this blog come about?

Fred Abrams: During this past May and June I had researched the idea of using a blog to promote my law practice. In researching blogs published by different lawyers on the Internet, I came across one hosted/developed by LexBlog. That particular blog had high search engine ranking in Google/good organic search results, so I decided to proceed with LexBlog.

2. Rob La Gatta: What do you hope to get out of your LexBlog blog?

Fred Abrams: I hope to gain exposure on the Internet by making my blog a valuable source of information for those trying to locate hidden assets in: matrimonial; bankruptcy; forced collection; and other legal proceedings.

3. Rob La Gatta: If you read other blogs, what are some of your favorites?

Fred Abrams: As I am brand new to the blog world, I have not had the chance to follow or regularly read blogs.

This time around we spoke with Erich Rapp, a Louisiana attorney with Kean Miller Hawthorne D'Armond McCowan & Jarman LLP,  whose Louisiana Coastal Wetlands Blog went live yesterday.

1. Rob La Gatta: When and how did the development of this blog come about?
 
Erich Rapp: In the summer of 2003, one of my law partners asked if I thought that the federal government was liable for coastal land loss in Louisiana. Anything involving federal liability for any reason is complicated, but I had no idea how complex this claim would be. What started out as a project for a client became far more. My search for legal and factual knowledge about Louisiana coastal land loss began consuming my evenings, weekends and holidays. In the summer of 2004, it consumed most of my three month sabbatical from the law firm.
 
Along the way, my law firm began a blog called Louisiana Law Blog. I began posting about several subjects on this blog. I had wanted to write a book on the loss of the Louisiana coastal wetlands, and I may still. In the meantime, however, posting entries to the law firm's blog sparked an interest in starting my own blog on the topic of Louisiana coastal land loss. Thus, I developed http://www.louisianacoastalwetlands.com.
 
2. Rob La Gatta: What do you hope to get out of your LexBlog blog?
 
Erich Rapp: In the future, I would like to see the federal government take into account the impact of their actions throughout the Mississippi River drainage basin on the coastal wetlands of Louisiana. I would like to see the federal government take responsibility for paying damages to those in Louisiana that have suffered as a result of coastal land loss, and most important, I would like to see the federal government take responsibility for a large scale restoration and preservation program in the coastal wetlands of Louisiana. I don't really think that all of that is coming from publishing a blog, but maybe it will play some small role in advancing national public awareness of the problem.
 
If somewhere along the way, I can find the right plaintiff(s) or defendant(s) in the right place at the right time, perhaps, I will also get to go back to court on this subject.
 
3. Rob La Gatta: If you read other blogs, what are some of your favorites?

Erich Rapp: I am really a novice at this. For me the best way to look at blog entries is by topic with Google News Alert or through a newsreader. Nevertheless, a couple of blogs that I follow are LaPolitics.com and Gizmodo.com.

That's all for now...check back in coming weeks, as more LexBlog clients continue to launch their blogs.

Rob La Gatta: When and how did the development of this blog come about?

Joel Bolstein: I was recently named co-chair of the environmental practice group at Fox Rothschild. I saw that a number of lawyers in our firm had blogs in various specialty areas and I thought that I'd write a blog in my area of expertise -- the redevelopment of brownfield sites. Since leaving my position as Deputy Secretary of the Pennsylvania DEP, I've worked on many brownfield projects, and I keep current with new policies and regulatory developments. When Pennsylvania rolled out its program, I traveled the country promoting brownfields redevelopment. I've testified before the US Congress and the PA General Assembly on matters relating to brownfields redevelopment. Now I think it's time to share some of my experience and hopefully have a dialog with others committed to brownfield redevelopment.

Rob La Gatta: What do you hope to get out of your LexBlog blog?

Joel Bolstein: I'd like to be able to communicate with attorneys, consultants, developers and others in Pennsylvania and around the country who are working on brownfield redevelopment projects and discuss hot topics, think through issues, swap success stories, and share experiences.

Rob La Gatta: If you read other blogs, what are some of your favorites?

Joel Bolstein: I am an avid reader of blogs that cover politics and elections. My favorite is The Fix on the Washington Post's website, especially around election time. I also like Capitol Briefing, another blog on the Washington Post's website.

Keep watching this spot. As more folks like Joel begin developing LexBlog blogs, we hope to continue conducting brief interviews on what turned them into bloggers.