Lawyer2Lawyer: YouTube and Legal Marketing
This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we look at YouTube as a legal marketing tool. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and me to discuss this are our guests:…
Lawyer Marketing Site Hits Brick Wall
Would someone hire a lawyer based on an ad pasted to a wall? What about a digital ad pasted to a virtual wall on the Web? In either case, the answer seems obvious to me. Thus, I do not understand why any lawyer would shell out good money to purchase advertising space on the new…
What Hath Avvo Wrought?
With all the attention paid to last month’s launch of the lawyer-ranking site Avvo, it was only a matter of time before copycat sites began to appear. One such site, About My Lawyer, launched Friday, and it is so amateurishly executed that I cannot tell whether it is legitimate or a joke. The…
ABA Journal overhauls its Web site
A head-to-toe redesign was revealed today for the Web site of the ABA Journal. Because I am on vacation where I am short on time and reliable Internet access, I will quote from the announcement from Molly McDonough, the magazine’s assistant managing editor/online (and former associate of mine at ALM), in which she describes…
New Blog: ‘Today in Legal History’
FindLaw has teamed with National Public Radio’s Justice Talking program to launch the blog Today in Legal History. As the name suggests, each day the blog highlights a historical event related to law or government. The blog appears on both FindLaw and on JusticeLearning, a Web site produced by Justice…
Idaho State Bar this Week
I will be in Boise this week for the annual meeting of the Idaho State Bar, where the theme is law practice management. I am speaking Thursday on the latest in legal research online and Friday on cutting-edge legal marketing. Here is the meeting brochure and agenda. If you are attending the…
Cooley Godward Opens Boston Office
Silicon Valley law firm Cooley Godward Kronish opened an office in Boston this week, the Boston Business Journal reports. The office is staffed entirely by lawyers who were all once with Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, a Boston technology firm that dissolved in 2005. More details in Cooley’s press release.…
Who Was the First Legal Blogger?
I ask — and answer — this question in a post today at Legal Blog Watch. I’d love to hear from anyone who thinks I might have it wrong.…
Who Was the First Legal Blogger?
Howard Bashman at How Appealing points to Saturday’s Wall Street Journal article noting the 10th anniversary of the birth of blogging:
“We are approaching a decade since the first blogger — regarded by many to be Jorn Barger — began his business of hunting and gathering links to items that tickled his fancy, to which he…
Lawyer2Lawyer: Avvo’s Founders Respond
In today’s edition of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we interview the founders of the controversial lawyer rating site Avvo, President and CEO Mark Britton and VP of Products & Marketing Paul Bloom. The two discuss their reasons for founding the site, their responses to criticisms and their future plans. They…
ABA Picks Boston for 2014 Annual Meeting
Should I still be living in Greater Boston in seven years, I will save greatly on airfare. The American Bar Association has picked Boston as the venue for its 2014 annual meeting, the Boston Business Journal reports. Mark your calendars for Aug. 7 to 12, 2014.…