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"Balkinization,[link added] an influential legal blog started by Yale Law School Professor Jack Balkin [link added], turned five years old in mid-January," notes Yale Daily News staff reporter Isaac Arnsdorf in a February 1, 2008, article headlined Balkinization blog turns five. "The legal academy has never been the same," he contends, adding:
Although the blog was not the first online journal devoted to legal issues, it is still widely considered a pioneer in establishing the blogosphere as a serious venue for legal discussion. Balkin’s blog, which has drawn over 3 million visitors since launching on Jan. 13, 2003, helped redefine the information cycle among the legal academy, the government and the media, Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh said.
Arnsdorf quotes Koh as saying in an interview,“Balkinization helped to change the face of legal communication and scholarship. The kind of analysis that policy-makers, scholars and journalists used to wait for in paper publishing cycles now appears overnight in your inbox.”
Kevin O'Keefe at Real Lawyers Have Blogs gives "Kudos to the ABA Journal [link added] for naming blogging lawyers as one their newsmakers of the year for 2007 and 2008. It's the cover story for the Journal's January 2008 edition.," he notes.
To read more, see "ABA Journal names 'Lawyer-Blogger' a 'Newsmaker of the Year'
CHICAGO, USA -- I commend New York-based Vandenberg & Feliu, LLP Attorneys Ty Rogers and Ray Beckerman on the excellent work they are doing at the blog Recording Industry vs The People. If you want an authoritative source on the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) frivolous and unnecessary lawsuits aimed at deterring people from downloading music over peer-to-peer networks, Recording Industry vs The People is that source. The only other source I've found that's as comprehensive is the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
By the way, Roger's and Beckerman's blog is to the RIAA what paralegal Pamela Jones' blog Groklaw is to The SCO Group in (1) SCO v. IBM (2) SCO v. DaimlerChrysler (3) SCO v. Novell and (4) Red Hat v. SCO. It was the go to blog.
Rogers and Beckerman's latest post is "Tanya Andersen's Motion for Attorneys Fees Granted by Magistrate: "these plaintiffs ... should be deterred"
Labor and Employment Lawyer George Lenard, founder of George’s Employment Blawg, has the best employment-related blawg I've encountered so far since I started The Blogging Journalist in December 2005. I wasn't aware of the St. Louis, Missouri, USA "blogger before I was contacted on August 20, 2007, by journalism student Kathleen Rice, one of his interns, who conducted an e-mail interview with me."
Rice was "interviewing various bloggers for a "state of the blogging world" type post," so I was glad to help her out. Besides, she said TBJ "has been a very valuable resource" for her. I don't know if her article has been published or will be.
While Leonard's primary focus is employment-related issues, he also writes about blogging. What struck me is that he claims "an extensive blogroll that lists over 125 blogs covering a wide range of employment and HR-related subjects, organized into several categories." That's impressive by anyone's standards.
I really like Attorney J. Craig Williams' "May it Please the Court." The "weblog of legal news and observations" is beautifully designed and I find the writing interesting.
See his May 15, 2007, post headlined "Is It The Beginning Of The End? Outsourcing Local News To India."
By the way, Williams has one of the best blawg rolls I've ever seen.
KansasCity.com, the online presence of The Kansas City Star, has a February 6, 2007 article on lawyers in the American state of Kansas who are into blogging.
The publication noted that lawyers all over the United States are blogging. "At www.blawg.com alone, there are 1,249 links to blogs devoted to legal issues."
To read the article, please see "Blogging the law has many rewards."
Greg Beck at Public Citizen's Consumer Law & Policy Blog reported in a September 14, 2006 post that, "In the name of protecting consumers from false and misleading lawyer advertising, New York is proposing draconian new restrictions on Internet communications and other forms of attorney advertising that will directly impact attorneys who maintain blogs or websites in New York, or in many cases who simply send an email into the state."
To read the entire post, please see "This Blog Is False and Misleading (in New York).
The Seattle Times has an August 21, 2006 interview with Kevin O'Keefe, founder of LexBlog.com, "which provides blogging tools and support for lawyers and other professionals." He offers some good advice. For example, he was asked: "What makes a good professional blog?"
Answer: "Focus on a niche topic where you are expert, such as a particular area of patent law or a specific jurisdiction, O'Keefe said. "Design and appearance are also important."
For more, see "LexBlog teaches lawyers the basics of blogging."
Former attorney Joshua Fruchter of Marketing the Law Firm Newsletter says “There is no question that blogging is fast becoming a hot trend among lawyers.” For more, see “Best Practices for Legal Blogging.”
"Open source efforts, where many people contribute without compensation to a shared effort, may mark the next decade of collective law department efforts to obtain and disseminate management information," contends former practicing lawyer Rees Morrison in a March 26, 2006 post at Law Department Management. See "Open source respositories for law department managers" for more.
On March 26, 2006, DenverPost.com introduced its readers to law blogging (blawgs), with an emphasis on blogging lawyers in Colorado. For more, please see Greg Griffin's "They blog the law, and the law wins."
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