Listening to former Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden on CBS Sunday Morning, as she discussed with Robert Costa how libraries nationwide are facing pressure over how they operate and what they keep on their shelves, I couldn’t help but think of law firms—facing pressure to move away from true legal publishing toward legal publishing
For over 20 years, Real Lawyers Have Blogs has explored how lawyers use publishing to build relationships, grow their business and share their expertise with the world. In that time, I’ve spoken with thousands of legal professionals, marketers and technologists who care about the same thing I do—how we can help lawyers get better at
As reported Tuesday afternoon by Benjamin Mullin of The New York Times, The Washington Post has announced a major shift in how it sources and shares opinion content.
Through a new initiative called Ripple, the paper will begin aggregating and promoting columns not just from its own contributors, but from journalists at other U.S. newspapers,
I’m thinking of heading back to Chicago in a couple of weeks for Legal Geek North America—a one-day conference on Tuesday, June 17. I’d make a week of it to meet with clients and partners.
Legal Geek has its roots in London, where I first attended back in 2018. Unlike legal conferences in hotels
At LexBlog, we’ve always viewed the author or publisher of a legal blog post as a signal of authority—not just for the individual post, but for the entire publication on which the author publishes.
When a blog post is clearly published by one or two legal professionals, it conveys something vital: expertise, authorship, and a willingness
I mention AI and the law, and I am apt to be jumped by a lawyer telling me that AI is not to be trusted—look at the reports of hallucinations.
Get to legal blogs and things get much scarier. How could one find a legal blog credible? Put thousands of legal blogs together, in the
If you believe what Aneesh Raman, the Chief Economic Opportunity Officer at LinkedIn, has to say, there are some stressful days ahead for law grads—this year and next.
In an op-ed in The New York Times, Raman cited junior tech developers, first-year law associates, junior paralegals, and retail service people as among those most
I’ve run into my fair share of technical snags over the years, but there’s something particularly humbling about being stumped by a script that won’t show up on the homepage. This time, it was a simple countdown widget — a custom integration we added for a specific client. Or at least, it should’ve been simple.
This week, I spoke with a first-year law student about launching a legal blog. The student looked at blogging as helping him build a name, to learn and land a desirable job more than if he did law review.
What started as a conversation about setup and logistics turned into something strategic—about identity, courage to
A particular kind of tension comes with building in a world that won’t hold still. That’s where we find ourselves today. The AI space is equal parts thrilling and disorienting. At LexBlog, as we chart our course forward and rethink the future of publishing, we’re working within a landscape that seems to reshape itself every