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Law Blog Posts As Statements and Footnotes in Wikipedia

By Kevin O'Keefe on April 13, 2021
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Searching Wikipedia for backgroud information on a B Corporation, a certification of “social and environmental performance” for a for profit companies, I came across a footnote from a statement that such status bring an annul fee. The footnote was to a blog published by the law firm, Bryan Cave.

Got me thinking. Wikipedia could be an excellent place for posts from your blog to be cited.

Wikipedia entries are replete with footnotes documenting the source for a statement. Wikipedia is full of entries relating to the law and social issues, many of which are being being blogged in legal blogs.

Why not add a statement or additional information to an existing Wikipedia entry on an issue you just blogged about. You’re adding greater information and depth to an existing entry on the subject.

Furthermore, you’re backing up what you added with a credible source, if not the most credible source on the subject. Law blogs cover niches, niches not covered by any other learned authority.

With your added information, Wikipedia becomes a richer resource on the subject.

What’s the value to you of doing so?

  • You are contributing to the advancment of the law.
  • Greater access to reliable and credible legal information for legal professions and the public.
  • Wikipedia appears on page one of Google’s seach results forty-six percent of the time.
  • Like others, I use Wikipedia for background information on most everything. Especially so for definitions and descriptions I’ll use when blogging. People searching on the niche will see you.
  • Others are citing legal blogs, and perhaps yours, for Wikipedia entries and footnotes. Law blogs are the leading source on many subjects.
  • Law firms are chasing down Wikipedia entries for their own firm, why not seek entries where they are more substantive – on the law?
  • Increasing your stature as a reliable authority in your niche.
  • Law firms and legal marketing professionals scramble to get their blogs and blogs seen in any number of places. Some worthwhile, some not.
  • Wikpedia is twelve percent of the Internet. It dwarfs any other source.

Maybe others have written on legal blogs being used for Wikipedia entries and footnotes. I don’t recall seeing it.

Make sense?

Photo of Kevin O'Keefe Kevin O'Keefe

I am a trial lawyer, turned legal tech entrepreneur, now leading the largest community of legal publishers in the world at LexBlog, Inc.

I am a lawyer of 39 years. Wanting to be a lawyer since I was a kid, I have loved…

I am a trial lawyer, turned legal tech entrepreneur, now leading the largest community of legal publishers in the world at LexBlog, Inc.

I am a lawyer of 39 years. Wanting to be a lawyer since I was a kid, I have loved almost every minute of it.

I practiced as a trial lawyer in rural Wisconsin for 17 years, representing plaintiffs, whether they were injury victims and their family members or small businesses.

In the mid-nineties, I discovered the Internet in the form of AOL. I began helping people by answering questions on AOL message boards and leading AOL’s legal community.

I later started my own listservs and message boards to help people on personal injury, medical malpractice, workers compensation and plaintiff’s employment law matters. Though we were green to technology and the Internet, USA Today said if my firm “didn’t stop what we were doing, we would give lawyers a good name.”

In 1999, I closed my law firm and we moved, as a family of seven, to Seattle to start my first company. Prairielaw.com was a virtual law community of people helping people, a sort of AOL on the law, featuring message boards, articles, chats, listervs and ask-a-lawyer.

Prairielaw.com was sold to LexisNexis, where it was incorporated into Martindale-Hubbell’s lawyers.com.

After a stint as VP of Business Development at LexisNexis, I founded LexBlog out of my garage in 2004 (no affiliation with LexisNexis).

Knowing lawyers get their best work from relationships and a strong word of mouth reputation, and not promoting themselves, I saw blogging as a perfect way for lawyers to build relationships and a reputation.

When I could not find someone to help me with my own blog, I started a company to provide what I needed. Strategy, professional design, platform, coaching, SEO, marketing and free ongoing support.

As a result of the outstanding work of my team of twenty and my blogging, the LexBlog community has grown to a community of over 30,000 legal professionals, world-wide.

Publishing my blog, Real Lawyers, now in its 18th year, I share information, news, and commentary to help legal professionals looking to network online, whether it be via blogging or other social media.

Blogging also enables me to think through my ideas – out loud and in an engaging fashion.

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