There have been some great reports on law firm blogs recently. Kevin O’Keefe published an update to regular reporting of law firm blogs: State of the AmLaw 200 Blogosphere, November 2008 Greg Lambert put together a list of Large Law Firm Officially Sanctioned Blogs and followed up with a Report Card on Whether The Law [...]
There is a new legal blog aggregator: LexMonitor.com. It was set up by LexBlog, the purveyor of legal blogs. As they describe LexMontor: LexMonitor is a free daily review of law blogs and journals highlighting prominent legal discussion and the lawyers and other professionals participating in this conversation. Pulling from nearly 2,000 sources and 5,000 [...]
The Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly has launched a blog: The Docket. “Breaking stories and noteworthy information from the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly newsroom. If it impacts Massachusetts lawyers, we’ll be blogging about it here.” Disclaimers
Today’s Boston Globe has a Page One article on US district Court Judge Nancy Gertner and her blogging activities: Off the Bench, Judge Blogs Her Mind. To those of you who read Robert Ambrogi’s Law Sites, you have already heard this story about Slate.com’s Convictions Blog. I was surprised to see the Globe put it [...]
The Firm has taken its first steps into Enterprise 2.0. Using SharePoint’s blog platform we launched our first blog today. Mark Puzella, David Hosp and Robert O’Connell started their Trademark, Copyright and Trade Secrets Blog. They put up four posts the first day and a had handful of comments. (The comments were mostly the authors [...]
Kevin O’Keefe of Lex Blog has but together his latest status report on big law firms that blog: State of the AmLaw 200 blogosphere, March 2008. Kevin includes a list of the firms and list of the blogs. Since August of 2007 the number of AmLaw 200 firms with blogs has increased from 39 to [...]
Over at the Drug and Device Law Blog one of the authors stirred the pot by posting: Why Are Blogs Undervalued? The post got picked up by the WSJ.com Law Blog: Law-Firm Blogs: Marketing Device or Mere Diversion? Since, the Drug and Device Law blog called him out, Bruce MacEwen of Adam Smith, Esq. also [...]
As social media is spreading and as I am using more social media tools, I find that the information about me is being spread across more and more sites. Of course one of of the great things about most “2.0 tools” is that they allow you to easily manipulate the information. I created a lifestream [...]
As a blogging lawyer, I tend to keep an eye on Mike Dillon. Mike is the general counsel of Sun Microsystems and writes a blog: The Legal Thing. Mike was interviewed by Real Lawyers Have Blogs. A few things caught my eye in the interview. One, Sun has between 3,000 and 4,000 employees blogging externally, [...]
Lawyers are blogging. Kevin O’Keefe of Real Lawyers Have Blogs noted an article in the Financial Post: Blogging Can Be Useful As a Low-cost Public Relations and Marketing Tool. They cite an American Express Survey that 5% of businesses with 100 or fewer employees have blogs. Kevin goes on to note that law firms adoption [...]