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We Need a Women in Legal Tech Publication

By Kevin O'Keefe on September 20, 2022
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We should have a digital publication covering women, worldwide, in legal tech – if there is not already one out there.

Not a traditional reporter and editor driven site/publication but one driven by the women in legal tech, their companies, their organizations and others covering women in legal tech.

Rather than reporters and editors, we’ll leverage portal technology which aggregates and curates writings and news. More below.

You’d have to be living under a rock to miss the women who are founding legal tech companies in areas where society has a real need.

Whether it’s a legal product development company, a platform for tracking the pro bono efforts of lawyers, or empowering people in small claims courts, women are leaving their mark in legal tech.

And I’m only hitting a few.

I feel a bit chauvinistic to call out women leaders in legal tech. After all, we’re all in this legal tech industry together and I don’t believe women in legal tech are looking for special treatment.

But I have been in the legal profession for a long time.

I’ve seen law school classrooms dominated by men. I’ve seen women treated very poorly by lawyers and judges. Women had to work twice has hard as men in practice. May still be true, look at the number of managing partners who are women.

In legal tech, I’ve heard and read about women unable to raise capital because they were a woman. The number of venture capitalists who would see them was far fewer than in the case of men.

It’s time to shine a light on the women leaving their mark in legal tech. And to inspire women legal tech entrepreneurs who are just getting started and the women law students who aspire to land in legal tech.

We need to give increased visibility to the products, platforms and solutions being developed by women in legal technology.

Coverage would not be limited corporate legal tech. Libraries, knowledge management, law schools, non-profits and more include women doing great work in legal tech.

Traditional digital magazines are apt to die, assuming a publisher is even willing to cover such a niche.

Imagine a publication run on portal technology aggregating and curating existing publishing on women in legal technology – includes the publishing/blogging of the women themselves, the people in their organizations and others, about them.

Would include announcements from the companies as well.

Each contributor – including company founders, other women working in legal tech companies, law students and law professors would have a profile in the publication. As would their organization.

Every day, via the incoming feeds, there would be a steady flow of new contributions, available to users via email or RSS.

I get pumped thinking about it.

Enough so thatLexBlog would be happy to contribute our portal technology and help support the publication’s operation.

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.

In addition to my blog, I liberally share others’ insight on Twitter. Feel free to engage me there as well on LinkedIn and Facebook.

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