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No sooner do I publish my review of the best law firm recruiting sites than comes another highly creative recruiting site, this one from the Boston firm Choate Hall & Stewart. (My article looked only at AmLaw 100 firms; Choate is in the second hundred.) Choate announced the site July 25, and…

Earlier this week, I wrote a review here of The Lawyers Wall, concluding, “As a medium for lawyer marketing, this one seems to hit a brick wall.” That brought a response from the site’s founder, Jeffrey D. Brown, on his blog, The LW Blog. Now, Brown has deleted his response from his…

From the University of Minnesota, a collection of state and federal information on the I-35 bridge, including inspection reports.…

The blog Free Government Information points to this page of RSS feeds available from the U.S. Census Bureau. Keep track of Census Bureau general news and releases or follow developments relating to specific topics such as aging, business ownership, health care and insurance, income and wealth, or any of more than three-dozen…

Larry Bodine gives the heads up on a new Web site he is helping to launch, JD Supra. The idea, apparently, is to promote yourself and your law practice by contributing content to the site. Bodine writes that he and Aviva Cuyler, a California lawyer, cofounded the site “to give members of the…

For my Web Watch column this month in Law Technology News, I review the recruiting sites of the nation’s largest law firms. This first of two parts looks at the more innovative efforts. Next month’s column will review the ones that fall flat. Here is the opening:

“It is time for the

For an article I am writing, I am looking to hear from legal professionals about their experiences with LinkedIn. In particular, I would love to hear from anyone whose participation in LinkedIn brought them new business or opened doors to other beneficial opportunities. I also want to hear from any longtime users of LinkedIn…

My posts today at Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch:

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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:…

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…

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…