“Everyone can use the law library. Our patron usage is split almost in half between members of the legal community—judges, attorneys, paralegals—and everyone else, like students, authors, reporters, self-represented litigants, or anyone with a legal question or issue.”
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We started working with ProVisors in 2020. The ask was simple—syndicate blogs from their 9,000+ members onto a dedicated Thought Leadership site. Today that site has more than 20,000 posts from over 800 contributors, and the way content gets there
Have you ever gotten off the interstate in a small town to take a look at one of the Carnegie libraries?
May sound crazy, but I have. I’ve been a library junkie since I was a kid. Maybe that’s why
If you’ve been following along, LexBlog is building a citable library of legal practitioner publishing. Strange part — some folks can’t see the value of such a library.
Twenty plus years ago, when lawyers started publishing online, nobody called it
Legal citations follow a rigid format that tells you exactly who said what, where it was published, and when.
Without proper citations, neither the court nor lawyers can cite a published work. Big reason that practitioner publishing, whether blogs, white
Case law has a citation system. Statutes have one. Law reviews have one.
But when a practicing lawyer shares insight and commentary on the law, whether it be interpreting primary law or breaking down the law for clients or the
We just shipped two features that work at different layers but serve the same goal: making every piece of content in the LexBlog Library easier to find, easier to reference and correctly attributed—whether the reader is a person, a search
If you’re a lawyer publishing insight and commentary on your niche area of law, where do you want your publishing to live?
Of course, you’ll still want publishing on your website. People who find you by word of mouth, through
It’s hard enough as the leader of a company to keep yourself and your team on vision. It’s harder still to pivot from the original vision to something new. But at some point, you have to. Because of an opportunity,
Who remembers when Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act gave platforms the confidence to host legal communities online?
It was thoughtful of Professor Eric Goldman of Santa Clara University School of Law to mark the 30th anniversary of the
