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
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.
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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
Large law firms lagged small firms when it came to the use of the Internet for marketing and after that publishing (particularly blogging) to build authority and business and then SEO for high search rankings.
The problem in the case of many large law firms is that they are lagging again.
Rather than recognizing that
There’s all this hype and discussion going on about AI and legal blogging and publishing. Most is focused on how AI can improve your publishing, enable you to publish faster, proof/edit your copy or even write your publishing for you.
The last one is not a big leap in that marketing companies are already writing
David Lat has shaped modern legal media more than almost anyone. From the pseudonymous blog Underneath Their Robes to launching Above the Law in 2006 and now publishing the reader-funded Substack Original Jurisdiction, he shows how gossip, hustle and independent vision can build a lasting journalism career.
In this episode Kevin digs into that journey,
Hamish McKenzie–a veteran journalist, 21 year publisher and co-founder of Substack–inspired the heck out of me with his post yesterday, “Civilization on the Electronic Frontier.”
I’m not the Chief Writing Officer around here, as he is at Substack, but I’m honored to share the views he expresses about real sharing, real engagement,
The “AI Rat” scandal reported on by The Guardian’s Science editor, Ian Sample is a cautionary tale for online legal publishing and the need for vetting, beginning with an age old concept, legal libraries.The recent uproar in scientific publishing, epitomized by a paper featuring an AI-generated rat with an “unfeasibly large penis” and nonsensical
Carolyn Elefant is a renewable‑energy litigator, founder of MyShingle and longtime advocate for solo and small‑firm lawyers. In this conversation Kevin digs into her idea of “owning your talent,” the 20‑year journey of MyShingle and how generative AI is opening new doors for lawyers who practice on their own terms. They also explore Carolyn’s niche work
Amy Shepherd has spent two decades turning cutting-edge ideas into measurable growth for Am Law firms. Now an advisor at Gladstone Growth Strategies and founder of Amy AI, she’s helping marketing and BD teams see where artificial intelligence fits—and where old-school resilience still wins. In this episode of Real Lawyers, Kevin digs into Amy’s playbook: