I shared my thoughts a couple weeks as to how legal bloggers and LexBlog, in combination, could help people facing legal issues arising out of the pandemic.
Our thoughts have jelled into an actionable plan that lawyers, associations, law firms, and LexBlog have put in motion.
Here’s the need, the plan, and the action being
Someone asked me my thoughts on virtual conferences vis a vis typical conferences we’ve always had before March of this year. They were doing an article for a publication. I thought I’d share my thoughts with you.
Those of you that know me know that I am a people person. I enjoy social interaction and
I spoke about the pandemic’s impact on law firm business development with Jack Newton, the co-founder and CEO of Clio, a couple weeks ago.
The emphasis was – at least for me – that this is the time to be as different and unique as possible. Being the same as other lawyers and you
I’ve been noodling on ways that my at LexBlog team and I can help people impacted by the pandemic. That’s most everyone on the world.
You’re getting my thinking out loud on the ways LexBlog can help by quick iteration of our existing technology and harnessing the passion and expertise of legal professionals. It’s the
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s morning briefings have become a staple for many, New Yorkers or not, on the state of the pandemic.
Sunday morning Governor Cuomo ended with a story that he said taught him a lot.
A story that taught him to question why we do what we do. To question the bureaucracy.
The LinkedIn Legal Blogging Group grew by over one hundred members from eighteen different countries in the last day.
Egypt, Poland, India, US, Canada, UK, Australia, United Arab Emirates, Japan, Romania, Belgium, Germany, Turkey, South Africa, Jamaica, Nigeria, Argentina and Columbia. Amazing. 
My teammates and I at LexBlog, moderators of the Legal Blogging Group for
We’re not going to see conferences of legal professionals in the hundreds, let alone thousands, in size yet this year.
You can glean this from the White House guidelines, which the governors apparently approve of (and make the final decision), and the resulting discussion taking place across mainstream and social media. 
Even in stage
The work we’ve been doing at LexBlog on our aggregation and curation software, necessitated by the volume of content published on the pandemic, has me wondering about “aggregated publishing” by law firms and lawyers versus the constant focus on getting eyeballs to to their publications directly.
Leading legal professionals have a ton of niche expertise
I was in Boston on 9/11. Unable to fly home to Seattle, I drove my rental car down through Conneticutt onto Northern Manhattan the afternoon of 9/12 or 9/13, I am not sure which.
As a New York City native and an American, I had this fealing, being on the East Coast, I should try
I am a social creature. I get joy in life doing things with other people, particularly helping people.
Heck, when I stumbled into the net twenty-five years ago in the form of AOL, it was the best of both worlds. Engaging people and helping thousands of people who had questions on personal injury, workers comp,