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Should you self-promote in your blog posts? | Finding a lawyer via Google vs. social media

Real Lawyers Have Blogs’ Kevin O’Keefe noted a post at Business 2 Community titled “10 ways businesses can blog better.” Tip No. 7 was that business blogs should append a “call to action” at the end of every blog post—a “call to action” being a sentence or two describing your…

Apr 11, 2014 1:35 PM CDT

Blog offers immigration help to Nigella Lawson | Celeb podcaster fights patent troll

It was reported by The Daily Mail and other news outlets this week that celebrity chef Nigella Lawson was turned away from boarding a Los Angeles-bound flight from London. A U.S. embassy spokeswoman would not tell CNN why Lawson had been stopped. At Lifted Lamp, the law firm Benach Ragland…

Apr 4, 2014 1:30 PM CDT

Law bloggers sum up their time spent offline and face-to-face at Techshow

As usual, legal bloggers attended and presented at ABA Techshow in force—and often, they shared key information and their own thoughts online after all was said and done. For the fifth year, LexThink.1—which gathers speakers for six-minute presentations around a central law practice theme—took place on the eve of Techshow.…

Mar 31, 2014 6:15 PM CDT

Are parents better off as solos, or at firms? | Why law-app developers are ignoring Android

Washington, D.C., solo Carolyn Elefant—who has one daughter in high school and another “on the cusp of college”—writes at Above the Law that her working for herself rather than for a law firm worked out for her and her family. But is being a solo always the best way to…

Mar 21, 2014 1:45 PM CDT

Should napping at work be encouraged? | Federal judge returns to popular blog with an announcement

U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf announced in January that he would stop posting at Hercules and the Umpire. But the judge logged back on a week ago and told readers that he has been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. “Because I made such a fuss about legal realism and transparency while…

Mar 14, 2014 1:45 PM CDT

SCOTUS reporter notes tighter security after YouTube footage | Copyright and the ‘Oscar selfie’

Last week, footage of a U.S. Supreme Court hearing was posted on YouTube. This week, U.S. Supreme Court reporter Mark Walsh, writing for SCOTUSblog, noticed some “security tweaks” to Supreme Court security procedures. He writes that court observers have speculated that the videos were made with something as small as…

Mar 7, 2014 2:45 PM CST

Generation X’s impact on the legal industry | A blogger shares his wife’s lung cancer struggle

“There is a generational shift taking place, and very few people are talking about it, nor the impact it is having on our sales culture, nor our business culture,” Heather Morse, director of marketing for Barger & Wolen in Los Angeles, writes at The Legal Watercooler. Members of Generation X—like…

Feb 28, 2014 2:50 PM CST

Bloggers find inspiration at #ReInventLaw NYC—but admit some of it was nothing new

Last Friday at Cooper Union in New York City, nearly 40 lawyers gave presentations—many in a six-minute Ignite format—at ReInvent Law NYC. ReInvent Law conferences—the creation of Michigan State University College of Law professors Daniel Martin Katz and Renee Newman Knake— have been held in Dubai, Silicon Valley and London.…

Feb 14, 2014 2:55 PM CST

What law bloggers think of attorney’s Super Bowl ad | A new blog from Above the Law

More than 4 million people have watched Savannah, Ga., personal injury attorney Jamie Casino’s local Super Bowl Ad on YouTube. In the two-minute opus, the onetime criminal defense attorney tells how he no longer represents “villains” since his brother’s fatal shooting two years ago. New York City Personal Injury Law…

Feb 7, 2014 2:45 PM CST

Should law firms give their clients a concierge experience? | Legal tips for the Super Bowl

Is the time our clients might spend waiting for their appointments with lawyers a wasted opportunity? After getting a little inspiration at the Marketing Partner Forum last week, 3 Geeks and a Law Blog’s Greg Lambert wonders. “Imagine having someone in your marketing, business development, or client teams departments greeting…

Jan 31, 2014 2:45 PM CST

Volokh Conspiracy blog now subject to Washington Post’s paywall | Can lawyers use dynamic pricing?

This week, the Volokh Conspiracy (in the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100 Hall of Fame) migrated to the Washington Post. The blog was approached by the newspaper, and they accepted the offer in hopes that their blog will now reach a larger audience, blog founder and University of California-Los Angeles law…

Jan 24, 2014 2:45 PM CST

Don’t talk to police without an attorney? For some, that’s hard advice to take, blogger writes

Popehat blogger Ken White thinks that it is always too risky to talk to police before seeking a lawyer’s counsel. “If you talk to them, it is somewhere between possible and likely that you will incriminate yourself, whether or not you have done anything.” And this week, White was praising…

Jan 17, 2014 2:30 PM CST

Should Web comments be grounds for an ethics probe? | Earning CLE credit through writing blog posts

This week, we reported that University of Denver law professor Nancy Leong has filed a request to the Illinois Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission for an ethics investigation against a lawyer in the state regarding “sexualized comments about [her] appearance and other disparaging remarks made [her] concerned for [her] safety”…

Jan 10, 2014 2:45 PM CST

Law profession needs R&D support, bloggers say | Year-end bonus etiquette

The Make More Rain Blog reached out to legal industry experts to get their predictions about the state of law firms, law firm technology and law firm business development. One prediction of 3 Geeks and a Law Blog’s Ryan McLead: “Firms will begin active research and development programs to improve…

Dec 20, 2013 2:45 PM CST

The 1980s were great years if you were law firm associates—but if you were clients, not so much

Both Indiana University law professor Bill Henderson at the Legal Whiteboard and Ohio State University law professor Deborah Merritt at Law School Cafe examined the state of the legal profession in this country a generation (or more) ago. Henderson crunched some data that he says tells “an absolutely remarkable story.…

Dec 13, 2013 2:49 PM CST