Legal profession has long way to go in understanding value of law blogs

We have the American public increasingly reading lawyers’ blogs for reliable and trustworthy legal information, resources, and insight. We have thousands of leading lawyers across the country blogging for professional and client development.

Then we have Phoenix Attorney Eleanor Miller on the subject of lawyers’ blogs. The following from a comment she made as to law blogs on Scott Greenfield’s blog, Simple Justice.

…I think blogs are ridiculous and extraordinarily egocentric blatherings of people who apparently don’t get enough attention in their day to day lives.

I can’t find much, if anything, on Attorney Miller’s background online (she’s put nothing online I could find). But Miller does disclose in her comment that she is the past president of the Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice and a Certified Criminal Law Specialist by the state bar. Presumably she’s a pretty good lawyer.

What do I take from Attorney Miller’s opinion of law blogs?

• Many very good lawyers across this country understand little when it comes to the subject of law blogs.
• Opportunities abound for lawyers looking to improve themselves as a lawyer and do effective client development through blogs. Much of your competition has not a clue.
• Law blogs are still in their infancy. When leading lawyers feel comfortable calling them egocentric blatherings by lawyers looking for attention, we have a long way to go before the legal blogging community matures.
• Attorney Miller is lagging on an understanding of the Internet. She’s chosen not to use the power of the Internet to learn, network, and help the public we lawyers serve.

I’m interested in what you take from Attorney Miller’s views.

Obviously not her intention, but the single biggest thing I get from her is inspiration. Inspiration to continue the cause of empowering lawyers to network through the net – to help good lawyers and to to help the public we serve.