Of course I have a dog in this hunt, and maybe I am being less than creative with a post on this topic, but hear me out on something that seams to be common sense. Lawyers and law firms are not well served in setting up their own blog sites. On Reddit someone asked this week about setting up their own blog. One person responded that they were a software engineer and that they were…

I’ve been on the road interviewing successful law bloggers the last couple weeks and I’ll continue with more at the end of this week. I’ll start to post the interviews on a LexBlog YouTube Channel and here on my blog within the next week. By successful law blogger, I’m referring to lawyers who have built a tremendous reputation as a trusted advisor and thought leader, while at the same time establishing relationships with clients, prospective…

As a managed WordPress platform for legal publishers, LexBlog runs a WordPress development shop. Not as web agencies do with custom web development, which is tough to scale for the developer and the customer, but to perform the WordPress development work for our managed WordPress platform which supports all of our legal bloggers. Plugins, upgrades and features are being worked on and shipped by LexBlog all of the time. Just as any other SaaS (software…

ROSS Intelligence announced last week that it was giving law students and faculty free access to its AI legal research platform. The move was part of the company’s mission to improve the delivery of legal services. In its announcement, ROSS made a couple points that are applicable to technology companies, in general, introducing their solutions at law schools. From Andrew Arruda, CEO and co-founder of ROSS: “The legal profession is changing quickly and clients…

All the talk at conferences, in articles and on websites is on the legal professional getting something from their blogging. Web stats, leads, search engine rankings, increased revenue and what have you. It’s the same old me/me/me approach to publishing. Even when lawyers are told to keep the audience in mind, it’s for their personal gain. A better approach may be to ask “Who am I to committed to making a positive impact on? Who…