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
I was on call last week with the marketing director of a midsize law firm which is publishing four legal blogs.
The firm’s CFO questioned the value of the blogs. How much time were the firm’s lawyers putting into the blogs – and in turn, how much business was being generated by the blogging?
Legitimate
I’ve managed the Legal Blogging Group on LinkedIn since the first week LinkedIn created groups.
Regardless of what you think of the value of LinkedIn Groups, they’re gold for reaching out to shake people’s hands. And after all, shaking hands and talking with folks is what networking through the net is all about.
How so?
I just reviewed thirty requests to join LinkedIn’s Legal Blogging Group, approving most of them. The ones not approved were from people with no interest in the law or legal blogging.
As with last week, I was struck by the number of people from countries other than the United States, particularly India, who requested
The State Bar of Wisconsin is the latest bar associaton to partner with LexBlog to bring a legal blogging community to their state or metropolitan area.
The legal blogging community partnerships are twofold. One to create a hub for all things legal blogging in the jurisdiction. And two, to make it easy and low cost
