Real Lawyers Have Blogs : Law Blogs, Social Media, Twitter

I'm speaking today in Seattle and Thursday in Portland for the Northwest Chapter of the Legal Marketing Association on the topic, "Working a Room in the Digital Age: Social Networking for Law Firms". 

Much of the presentation will be live navigation of the Internet beyond this Power Point, but the file is here available for download for attendees or anyone else interested.

More information about signing up for events is in this blog post.

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I'll be speaking next week at two events put on by the Northwest Chapter of the Legal Marketing Association. The topic is "Working a Room in the Digital Age: Social Networking for Law Firms".

I'll be in Seattle on Tuesday, May 19, at the Columbia Center, with registration beginning at 11:30 and the program at 12 noon. On Thursday, May 21, I'll be in Portland at the offices of Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, during the same time.

Details and RSVP information are available at the LMA's website.

I presented to the LMA Northwest chapter in both cities last year as well. I enjoyed it and made some good connections.

If you'd like to get together with me to chat about blogs or social media while I'm in Portland on the 21st, either before or after the presentation, feel free to email me or call my cell, 206-321-3627.

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The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) is holding their annual meeting in Seattle this week.

Runs today through Wednesday at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center. The event brings together in-house counsel with lawyers from leading law firms around the world.

Taking advantage of the latest innovation in PR and communications, the ACC is running the Event ACCess Blog in conjunction with the Seattle meeting. In addition to regular blog posts, the blog includes a stream of the ACC Events Twitter posts and ACC event photo's being streamed from Flickr.

In addition to ACC officials' blog posts, I'll be blogging from the event today and Wednesday. Rob La Gatta of LexBlog will blog the event on Tuesday when I travel to Los Angeles.

As way of background, the ACC is the world’s largest organization serving the professional and business interests of attorneys who practice in the legal departments of corporations, associations and other private-sector organizations around the globe.

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We're hiring again at LexBlog. Our growing Internet marketing/new media company is looking for a talented Software Engineer to join our innovative and driven team in our Seattle office.

You will report directly to me as the company founder and work with the executive team to direct feature definition as well as the implementation of LexBlog's products and services.

A competitive salary, participation in ownership of start up company, and full health benefits await you.

A successful candidate will have:

• Experience prototyping, building, and maintaining high availability Web applications.
• Strong Linux System Administration knowledge.
• Experience with server load balancing.
• Strong Perl knowledge and mod_perl web development experience.
• Ruby On Rails experience.
• Knowledge of XHTML, CSS, RSS, Search Engine Optimization.
• Strong communication and organization skills.
• Ability to work with and communicate with both technical and non-technical team members.

The following skills are a plus:

• Experience deploying/managing web applications using Capistrano.
• Knowledge of Movable Type, including:
• Movable Type Template Development.
• Movable Type Plugin Development.
• Multi-blog Movable Type deployments.
• Object Oriented Javascript development with Prototype.

LexBlog is a profitable Internet marketing company in its 5th year with the potential makings of a strong publisher in the new media space. Adding 20 new blogs a month, we’re running over 350 blogs across the country, as well as internationally, with over 850 authors. With a subscription based business model, LexBlog has a 95% client retention rate.

LexBlog will also soon be launching LexMonitor, a daily review of law blogs and journals pulling in content from almost 2,000 sources and 5,000 authors. LexMonitor will highlight prominent legal commentary as well as the contributing professionals for the delivery and display of such content to the legal profession's target audience (clients - current & prospective, the judiciary, law school professors & students, bloggers, traditional media - trade & mass).

If you or someone you know may be interested, please drop me an email or give me a call, 206 340 - 8204.

As always, thanks for the help.

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Rob La Gatta, a paid intern from Seattle University, is working out so well, we're looking to add another intern or two at LexBlog.

If you'd like further exposure to blog publishing, RSS, new media, and entrepreneurism in action, this is an opportunity to learn a ton and have a lot of fun.

You'd help in all aspects of our business:

• Client services - Assist in training and teaching professionals the art of better blogging.
• Editorial management - Blog publishing and syndicating content to our own and third party publishing platforms.
• Client development - Work first hand with me and our VP of Client Development in assisting on our client development processes (excellent entrepreneurial experience).

We're located in Pioneer Square, a great section of Seattle. Ideally, we'd like to locate a student who could start soon.

As way of background, LexBlog, now 4 years old, provides lawyers and other professionals with a turnkey blog solution. By empowering professionals to publish (we don't write content) and join online conversations in their niche areas of expertise our clients further enhance their reputation as trusted and reliable authorities. We're serving clients around this country and internationally.

I welcome talking with any interested students. Passion, drive, and a strong desire to learn and serve others will prove more important working with LexBlog than experience.

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When you live on an Island, the trip to the Apple Store is more of an adventure (well at least a family outing). Here's the view from the ferry deck traveling into Seattle from Bainbridge Island yesterday afternoon after the Packers game.

Two repaired machines, a new iMac, and a dinner out, and we were back on the 9 o'clock boat.

We live in a beautiful place here in Seattle, whose waters, mountains, and cityscapes I have come to take for granted after 8 years. I'll try to share more shots from my iPhone in the coming year.

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