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
FixRunner, a company offering WordPress solutions, is launching a “Free AI WordPress Builder,” tool designed to change how websites are created and hosted. The platform eliminates the requirement of paying for hosting before seeing a live website.
Now, anyone can build a professional, AI-powered WordPress site, preview it for 48 hours, and decide where to
Bob Ambrogi has been attending ClioCon since the start and has covered legal tech longer than most of us have been online.
In this episode of the Real Lawyers podcast, he and Kevin talk about why ClioCon’s energy feels different, what Jack Newton brings to the room, and what to watch for in Boston this
As shared by CBS Morning News, ChatGPT now wants to be your personal online shopper. Its new “instant checkout” feature lets buyers pick up products mentioned in the chat without ever leaving the app.
I tested the ChatGPT shopping experience, not the “instant checkout” feature, per se, by asking it to find me a good
For this week’s episode of the Real Lawyers podcast, Kevin spoke with Stephen Rosenberg, one of the country’s top ERISA and insurance litigation attorneys and author of the Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog. With nearly three decades of trial, arbitration and class action experience, Stephen has also built one of the most respected voices
True authority, the kind that earns a lawyer and their commentary citations inside large language models (LLMs) is far deeper than that achieved by a few quick SEO-like steps.
Authority in AI mirrors how people once judged a lawyer’s standing before search engines and SEO existed. It rests on building a verifiable, lasting public record
LexBlog being the largest network of lawyer-authored legal publishing, I am regularly asked about how this publishing should be used by large language models (LLMs).
The questions are understandable. Many people hold the view that legal publishing should not be used by LLMs at all, especially with headlines like the latest gimmick from Perplexity—its Comet
I’ve been a track and field junkie since law school. That’s when I started racing marathons, not anywhere near Olympic level, but enough to qualify for the major marathons and compete in my age group.
I loved the training, competing, and racing marathons despite some of the physical pain and the disappoint that came with
I was talking to a lawyer last week who has made her name through real and authentic publishing over the last two decades.
She now wants to show lawyers how to build a real name for themselves. Not with SEO but by publishing to build authority. Sharing authentic insight on legal matters they know best.
Cyndy McCollough—founder and principal consultant at McCollough Consulting—joins Kevin to talk about moving firm marketing from AI dabbling to an actual roadmap. We get into training first, picking one small pilot, winning buy-in with a middle-out model, and the everyday use cases that free teams to do higher-value work.
Watch the episode below or
Greg Siskind was publishing online before most lawyers had email. In this episode of the Real Lawyers podcast, he retraces grabbing a domain in 1993, launching an immigration bulletin in 1994 and learning netiquette on Usenet.
He walks through early ABA advertising fights, the daily grind of updating a website and how that visibility led