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 that a researcher can always “find and verify” a cited source.
They tackle digital preservation
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 guidance they would have received from your publishing and the publishing of others like you.
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, Data & Instruction at the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of
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 I’m drawn to the idea of building a library of legal practitioners’ insight and commentary,
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 marketing. It was publishing. The goal was to build a name, build relationships — to
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 public there’s nothing.
No structured way for lawyers or the court to cite it. No
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 engine or an AI system.
Here’s what changed and why it matters.
Addressable Headings and
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 search, or even through an LLM will look you up there. But that audience is
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, an obligation to serve, or a marketplace that’s moving—which isn’t.
Over the last six months
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 are they?”
To which ChatGPT responded, “Here are your teachings.” Twenty-two years of teachings, shared