As painful as it may be, and with the move comes declining ad revenue, eliminating a print edition may be the long term answer for most newspapers.
Today, as reported by the New York Times’ Monica Davey and John Eligon, The Chicago Defender, the newspaper, that told the story of black life in
Reading a post from Ms. JD’s Sonya Rahders announcing the winners of the 2019 Public Interest Scholarship Competition, I wanted to give a shout out to the law student winners and Ms JD for recognizing women in this regard.
After all, the passion and commitment to public interest careers of these four scholarship recipients topped
“You can tell a lot about a person and how they think about their work based on whether or not they use “content” to describe what they do. A photographer who says that he is creating “content” for his YouTube channel is nothing more than a marketer churning out fodder to fill the proverbial Internet
What can legal bloggers and other professionals learn from a 97-year old retired nurse who recently took up blogging? Plenty.
After leaving the UW School of Nursing, Doris Carnevali, wanted to share what she was learning about aging. Rather than aging being a bad thing, she found it to be a learning experience, and a
A number of legal professionals use the on-line publishing platform, Medium, for the publishing of their articles. Many are attracted by the distrubution of their content to other relevant Medium users.
Plus this ditribution and the platform was free. No more.
Medium has shifted from a free and open publishing platform and community, to
A reporter with a state legal publication asked me what I would say to someone who questioned the legitimacy of law bloggers as journalists as they are not beholden to the ethics of journalism and the objectivity that is the hallmark of journalism (or supposed be). A law bloggers first-hand knowledge could include biased views.
Jeffery Zeldman, one one of the country’s leading web designers, wrote this morning about continuing to learn, and in the process nailed what I see blogging as all about.
When I shared what I was learning, by writing about it—when I learned what I was learning by teaching it—I felt euphoric. We were at
My friend and CEO of Clio, Jack Newton put up the above slide in a presentation at the DC Bar’s Practice 360 conference on Friday.
The Bar thought it important enough to capture Newton’s point via Twitter.
LexBlog, with its aggregation of law blog posts, worldwide, and blogger profiles has been described as a legal blogging community.
The Illinois State Bar Association’s Illinois Lawyer Now, launched this week to publish an aggregation of member blog posts and blogger profiles has been described as a community of Illinois legal bloggers – at least those of whom are members of the Illinois State Bar Association.
But the legal blogging community has always been there – whether LexBlog or Illinois Lawyer Now came about or not.
Big kudos to the Illinois State Bar Association for shining a light on their state’s blogging lawyers with the launch this week of Illinois Lawyer Now.
Illinois Lawyer Now aggregates all of the posts on blogs published by members of the Illinois Bar and curates the posts into a constantly updated legal news and commentary publication, which also includes original articles from the Bar and contributors.
Each blog, blogging lawyer and law firm with contributing blogs is profiled in individual pages on the site.