Simplified network traffic analytics is something we’ve been working on for a couple months here at LexBlog. While web traffic on its own is one, not that complicated and two, not a meaningful measure of success, we still wanted to be able to see what posts on our platform were outperforming others. And we want the law firms to work with be able to do the same.

When you do that, you can identify potential lessons and formulate certain strategies to repeat going forward. With that in mind, here is a selection some of the most visited posts on the LexBlog Network in March and what my takeaway would be for why they’re here.

I’ll note, these are only from blogs on the LexBlog Platform—so not blogs who joined us via syndication, since we can’t track traffic on those sites.

Let’s get to it.

New Trump 2.0 Travel Ban Expected to Target 40+ Countries: What You Need to Know by Minnie Fu and Porter S Young on Jackson Lewis’s Immigration Blog

Honestly, as corny as this may sound, “what you need to know” is a string of words that almost always gets someone’s attention. You don’t want to overuse it, no, but when big news is breaking and folks want to know quickly what it means, offering to provide that—and executing upon it—is big. Fu and Young execute it well, covering the context, the latest developments, who they impact and the potential legal challenges ahead in a crisp 700 or so words.

Lesson? It’s a good format and title structure to follow.

Over 75,000 bottles of International Delight Coffee Creamer recalled because of spoilage and illness complaints on Food Safety News

As I wrote about not too long ago, Food Safety News is as good of a watchdog publication as you will find not only on the LexBlog Network, but the entire web. They’re on top of all the big developments in food safety—every recall, for sure—and this is one of them. Similar to the post above, they keep it simple and provide the relevant details in a succinct manner.

PLUS D&O Symposium 2025 by Kevin LaCroix on The D&O Diary

I love that this post is in this group. It rocks so much. Why? Because it’s just photos from a conference, the D&O Symposium in New York City. Well, the post is almost literally just that, but it’s so much more—this being one of the most-viewed posts across the network in March is a testament to the community LaCroix has built with The D&O Diary. And it is a community because he’s a blogger at heart and writes posts like this, where it’s just people connecting with people.

CPPA Announces Its First CCPA Non-Data Broker Enforcement Action by David Stauss, Shelby Dolen & Marlaina Pinto on Husch Blackwell’s blog, Byte Back

I can hazard a guess that one of the reasons this is here is that it is, despite being very technical, a major development in the world of data privacy enforcement. Husch Blackwell and Byte Back specifically have always done a good job in making their posts highly scannable and even leading with the primary point right up top. This post is no different. They take a relatively complicated and technical development and walk the audience through what happened and what it means for them going forward.

Two Adult Passengers, One with HIV, Sexually Assault 14 Year-Old Boy in the Sauna of the Royal Caribbean Independence of the Seas by Jim Walker on Cruise Law News

This is, without question, a heinous story. And that’s probably a major factor in why it’s received the attention it has. Jim Walker is another one of the LexBlog Network’s top watchdogs and he covers this situation with his usual fervor, providing readers with the necessary context by engaging with widespread mainstream media coverage of this and other similar crimes aboard cruises.

Law Librarians to Lawyers: Read the Cases. Critically. Carefully by Stephen Embry on his blog, TechLaw Crossroads

This is a real good one from Embry. A big thing I often advocate to legal bloggers: take what you see out in the world, the things that stick with you and make you think—and bring them back to the blog. Here, what he’s “bringing back” is a lesson from a session at LegalWeek 2025, that critically assessing the work LLMs do in assisting legal research doesn’t stop at making sure the cases they cite are real. You have to go beyond that. He takes the lesson, brings it to his audience and expands upon it. Elite blogging right there.

How unconscious bias warps our sense of merit by Peter Sloan on his blog, Belonging at Work

Honestly, this is one of the best and most fascinating posts I’ve read on the LexBlog Network in some time. In it, Sloan dives deep on a study on racial bias within law firms; in it, a groups of partners are given identical research memos drafted by a theoretical associate, but one group is told the author is white and the other is told the author is black. Sloan walks through and reflects the results—his second post on the study—and even reaches out to the author of the original study, relaying her perspective on some questions she had therein. Outstanding stuff.

Trump Administration Imposes Section 232 Steel and Aluminum 25% Tariffs March 12, 2025; EU and Canada Retaliate on Thompson Hine’s blog, SmarTrade

While tariffs are obviously all over the news this week, they started before the so-called “Liberation Day.” Here, Thompson Hine lawyers update their audience on the specifics of tariffs on “steel and aluminum articles and all listed derivatives.” This post being one of the most-trafficked pieces on the network in March probably speaks to how hot a topic tariffs are and will continue to be.

Who will have the first Tariff Law Blog?

Recent Developments Raise Significant Questions about the Future of Regulation and Enforcement of Cryptocurrency by Emily Friedman, Terence M. Grugan and Scott Diamond on Ballard Spahr’s Money Laundering Watch

Don’t just tell me what happened—tell me what it means. The team here at Ballard Spahr takes three different developments in the world of crypto and links them together to identify and relay an important trend. That’s what people go to lawyers for, not just to summarize events, but to work through risks, opportunities and more. Show you can do it in your blogging.

Form I-9s: Navigating Compliance in 2025 by Anthony Zaller of Zaller Law Group on the California Employment Law Report

Anthony Zaller has been good at this for a long, long time. And this is simple blocking and tackling. With the ramp-up in immigration enforcement, his firm has been “inundated” with questions on I-9 compliance. What does he do? Take it to the blog. He has a quick and succinct—but thorough—primer on the essentials of I-9 compliance. Now, when people reach out for guidance, he can supplement a phone call or an email with this readily-available post.