Migration of Legal Publishing Off of TypePad Underway

A quick update on LexBlog’s work, and the work of others, to migrate legal blogs and their content off of Typepad before its shutdown.

As you probably heard, last week Typepad, once the leading blog publishing platform for lawyers, announced it was shutting down. Come September 30, users would no longer be able to access the platform and all content will be deleted and irreversibly inaccessible.

LexBlog is doing what it it can to support legal professionals affected by the shutdown.

We’ve identified the legal blogs still hosted on Typepad, some still publishing, others holding years of valuable insight, and we’re reaching out directly to the publishers so no credible and citable publishing is lost.

For practicing lawyers who have been publishing on Typepad, we’re helping with migrations to LexBlog’s managed WordPress platform, making sure their writing remains accessible, searchable, and connected to readers.

We’re also in touch with the Law Professor Blogs Network, whose publishers include more than one hundred law professors, deans, and lawyers, many of whom are still publishing on Typepad.

And I am fielding questions directly from legal professionals handling their own migrations.

It’s refreshing, in a time when so much online publishing by lawyers and law firms is reduced to “content marketing” for search performance and analytics, to see legal professionals circle the wagons around publishing for its real value, the law itself.