Case law has a citation system. Statutes have one. Law reviews have one.
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Where Should Your Legal Publishing Live?
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
All the Cosmic Tumblers Have Clicked Into Place
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 Was Something?
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
Why Lawyers Put Their Work in Libraries
Working on the LexBlog Library, a worldwide collection of legal insight and commentary authored by legal practitioners, academics, law students, and other legal professionals contributing to the advancement of the law, the question came up as to why lawyers would
Core Principles of Legal Blogging
In preparation for a consultation with lawyers at a new law firm client of ours, I turned first to my traditional talking points. I then turned to ChatGpt and quiried “You know my teaching of bloggers from days past? What
Lawyer Profiles Aren’t All the Same
I was a VP of Business Development at Martindale-Hubbell of LexisNexis when my previous company was acquired by them. I respected the heck out of Carol Cooper, its EVP and Publisher who was continuing to build a directory of profiles,
AI Isn’t Eliminating Legal Librarians, It’s Expanding Their Role
As reported (password protected) by Amanda Robert of the ABA Journal,
“Law librarians are pushing back on the idea that generative artificial intelligence will eventually replace them. If anything, they have become more relevant as they test and promote new
The End of the Newspaper — and the Beginning of Publishing
I’ve been a newspaper junkie since I was a kid. I used to go to the local library in our town of 45,000 to connect with cities around the world through their newspapers.
I became fond of San Francisco—maybe that’s
How One Lawyer Helped Define What Blogging Could Be
Long before blogs were common in the legal profession, Ernie Svenson, widely known as Ernie the Attorney, was already writing online and figuring things out as he went. Svenson was among the first lawyers to experiment with publishing on