On my blog, Real Lawyers Have Blogs, now in its 15th year, I share information, news and insight to help legal professionals looking to network online, whether it be via blogging or other social media.
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October 2019
Interesting Tweet Sunday evening from Matt Mullenweg, a co-founder of WordPress.
Per Emma Roth of The Verge,
“Substack, the once buzzy newsletter platform, is losing a new swath of writers to rival platforms most people haven’t heard of. Just
Someone asked me recently what the difference will be between the LexBlog Library and Perma.cc.
Perma.cc and the LexBlog Library are complementary. The purpose of each is to satisfy one fundamental need in legal research and legal citation. That being
Imagine someone copying all of your publishing and the publishing of other authors and publishers like you, and saying they had the right to do so because they were training their AI solution — one that helps people receive the
Building something you believe in that’s never existed before and getting people to follow you, and even getting some to buy what you are building is not an easy chore.
Doing so without typical marketing and sales doesn’t make it
Skimming Google News for articles on AI and law libraries, I came across a white paper published last October: Building the Future of Law Libraries: Artificial Intelligence, Opportunities, and Advancement by Cas Laskowski, Associate Librarian and Head of Research,
“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.”
This from
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
