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October 2019
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
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
I’m notorious around LexBlog for what happens when you “get Kevin on the road.” I come back energized — even if it means coast-to-coast flights, sketchy sleep, less-than-ideal eating, and being on my feet half the time.
Being here in New York City this week — among friends, new ideas, and good conversations — reminded
Next week in New York City at Legalweek, and the following week at ABA TechShow in Chicago, I’ll sit down with law firms and legal professionals to introduce something we’ve been working on at LexBlog: the LexBlog Blogging Compass—an AI-assisted tool designed to help legal professionals maximize the impact of their blogs.
This isn’t AI
Law firms, especially large law firms, have been blogging blind for too long—hoping blogs by practice area or a lawyer’s hunch without a clear strategy will bring business development success.
That’s voodoo marketing. We’re in the days of AI now. The firms that keep blogging the old way—without data, without a real strategy—will find themselves
Legal blog publications, that is blogs published with their own title and on their own domain, as opposed to legal blogs run inside a law firm marketing website, are going to perform better in AI knowledge systems such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
This, for a lot of reasons, especially being that such blogs are being published