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October 2019
Beyond the successful practice of law, the highest echelon of authority is often reserved for those who contribute to the improvement of the law itself.
Among other contributions is legal scholarship, or publishing. This form of contribution, whether through articles
Not every day do you read a piece from a South Dakota reporter that captures what publishing by lawyers could mean. But Brian Bloom does just that in today’s Brookings Register.
“My name is Brian Bloom and by title
Alan Kaplinsky did not set out to be a media company. He set out to help clients make sense of a fast-changing consumer finance landscape, especially around the creation of the CFPB. Along the way, he helped build one of
Apologies for getting you this week’s Real Lawyers podcast a little later than normal—there’s just so much from our time at ClioCon 2025 to work through.
While we still have a few more episodes to share that were recording at
Clio CEO, Jack Newton’s keynote at ClioCon this year covered a wide range of items, including Clio’s expansion into the enterprise market, the transformative investment in AI through the vLex acquisition, and the convergence of law and the business of
I’ve been doing research lately on which publishing by lawyers carries the greatest authority with large language models such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude.
I’ve found where a lawyer publishes matters as much as what they publish.
In doing my
In the latest Real Lawyers podcast episode, Kevin O’Keefe sits down at ClioCon with Chris Stock, Clio’s VP of Legal Content and Migrations. Stock traces his path from early document automation work in Australia to his current focus at
We were on the ground in Boston for ClioCon 2025, recording new episodes of the Real Lawyers podcast and talking with the people shaping where legal work is headed. In this conversation, Kevin sits down with Clio CEO Jack Newton
Clio has long been known as the go-to technology company for solo and small law firms. At this year’s ClioCon, it announced something new—and big: Clio for Enterprise, a division built for the world’s largest law firms and corporate legal
In this episode, Kevin talks with Ed Walters—Fastcase co-founder and now chief strategy officer at vLex—about how consistent publishing drives referrals in an AI era, why blogs function as secondary law and how Vincent AI keeps answers grounded in
