I read, via a blog post from Rick Georges, that a Fastcase 7 update includes what Georges calls a “brief bank” for lawyers.
Got me thinking of a law blog bank.
As way of background, brief banks enable lawyers to get their hands on relevant briefs and memorandums that another lawyer has prepared and filed
I noticed today that veteran legal blogger, Bob Ambrogi added a resource section to his LawSites Blog.
Called, LawSitesResources.com, this resource section is a frequently changing collection of white papers, e-books and other resources, all available at no cost.
The section currently lists twenty different resources, covering topics that range from CCPA compliance to
Thirty some years ago, as a practicing lawyer, I’d receive a carbon copy of a lawyer referral slip from the State Bar of Wisconsin.
Someone from the La Crosse area had contacted the State Bar, via a toll free number displayed in the yellow pages, asking for a referral to a local lawyer.
I was
Getting the influencers to write about you and your newly launched law blog is usually overlooked by lawyers and legal marketing professionals.
Ironically, as I explained to a couple law firms this last week, it needn’t be hard to get the influencers to do so.
Influencers are those people who influence your audience of clients
There’s a lesson to be learned by lawyers from blogging’s beginnings. It’s in not over complicating things.
Blog is an abbreviation of the term, “weblog,” a website where people logged their browsing activity on the web. Almost in a diary like fashion.
Publishers of weblogs logged their activity. Where they want, the url, what they saw
Many of you don’t know Dan Schwartz, a Connecticut lawyer and publisher of the Connecticut Employment Law Blog.
I know Dan as a friend, having first met him in Montreal thirteen years ago. I’ve gotten to know his caring family, and him, mine, through Facebook.
So it gave me goosebumps (I get emotional
Too many blogging lawyers report the law, rather than share an interpretation of the law. At the same time, it’s the interpretation of the law – what the law means to them – that blog readers are looking for.
When it comes down to it, any second year law student can report the law. They’ve
I try my best to share each of my blog posts on LinkedIn.
As Jeff Nowak, publisher of FMLA Insights, shared recently, writing a blog post and not sharing it on LinkedIn is like hitting a home run and stopping at first base.
I don’t just share a link, I share the whole post
It’s regularly said that people and businesses hire lawyers, not law firms.
This played today in an interview of Linda Lu, Senior Vice President & Deputy General Counsel at TransUnion, by Practical Law The Journal: Litigation.
TransUnion’s Legal & Compliance department has approximately 200 associate lawyers. Lu is Senior Vice President and Deputy
Last Thursday, a friend asked me to find a lawyer for them or to get a referral from a lawyer so they could get counsel on a niche legal issue in a large metro area in another state.
No matter what anyone tells you, locating the right lawyer is not easy, and usually comes via
