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• Retired legal blogger talks about blogging

  
  Reading Tea Leaves by Randy Wilson — Authority: 131
  Mark Herrmann, who recently left Jones Day for Aon and also retired from his blog, Drug and Device blog, has left us with great insights into the blogging experience.   Here is my take-aways: 1.  You don’t need a fancy blog platform to be a successful blogger.   Their blog name and look and feel is ...
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• Will 2010 be the year big law crashes?

  
  Reading Tea Leaves by Randy Wilson — Authority: 131
  Susan Liebel Carter who founded the Solo Practitioner University has written: “Opportunity is everywhere because today lawyers have the tools they never did before to go small firm or solo and actively compete with the big boys both in quality and demographic reach. The economy is deconstructing and reconstructing. ...
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• Legal Research and Personal Injury Attorneys

  
  Missouri Injury Law Blog — Authority: 112
  For most attorneys, legal research is a labrynth of databases and special queries. Two behemoth companies have dominated the market for about the past 20 years or so: Westlaw and Lexis. Some have argued they are a duopoloy . It wasnt until a couple years ago with the advent of public.resource.org that there was a ...
  6 days ago

• Effective social networking by an attorney

  
  Reading Tea Leaves by Randy Wilson — Authority: 131
  David Wolf  asked to follow me on Twitter.  I went to his Twitter profile and was immediately impressed by a couple things: he had develop a clear, consistent practice niche that gives him credibility by focusing on child injury law and he keeps his followers current as to changes in that area of laws. Next, when ...
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• Bombay High Court on the Entry of Foreign Law Firms

  
  INDIAN CORPORATE LAW — Authority: 123
  The Bombay High Court (Swatanter Kumar C.J. and J.P. Devdhar J.) has held that foreign law firms are not eligible to practice law in India even in a non-litigation context. Foreign law firms are also not entitled to open liaison offices in India. The case is Lawyers Collective v. Bar Council of India and Others , ...
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• Publicizing Twitter account on professional bios?

  
  Reading Tea Leaves by Randy Wilson — Authority: 131
  This is the recommendation of one SEO company specializing in lawyer marketing.  They recommend attorneys include their Twitter accounts on all their print materials including business cards and the like as a way to increase the number of followers on Twitter. Here are some of the reasons not to do it. *Looks ...
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• Tough times at Cravath, Swaine & Moore

  
  Reading Tea Leaves by Randy Wilson — Authority: 131
  Last week I gave a talk to recent law graduates who were contemplating solo practice.  Not so much because they were excited about going out on their own but  because Big Law and even Not So Big Law isn’t hiring so much. More evidence of that comes from Elizabeth Wurtzel’s  piece in the Wall Street Journal ...
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• Merging the IP ADR Blog with New Commercial ADR Blog

  
  Settle It Now Negotiation Blog — Authority: 460
  I’m migrating the IP ADR Blog to a new Blog Home called Commercial ADR – Business Solutions to Justice Problems .  I’ll continue to post articles to the Settle It Now Negotiation Blog on matters of general interest to negotiators, including litigators who negotiate the settlement of lawsuits. After ...
  2 weeks ago

• Embedding social networking in e-mail blasts

  
  Reading Tea Leaves by Randy Wilson — Authority: 131
  E-mail marketing was around before social networking and has lost its buzz but not its effectiveness.  According a Strongmail survey , business executives are looking increase their spend on email marketing and social networking the most, probably spending to further integrate the two. How?   There are many ways ...
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• Law firms charge more despite poor reviews

  
  Reading Tea Leaves by Randy Wilson — Authority: 131
  The National Law Journal reports that the average rates at the top 250 law firms went up 2.5% in 2009.   Yet, 71% of in-house counsel believe that law firms haven’t done enough to respond to current financial pressures.  This disconnect led Qwest’s GC Richard Baer at a recent panel on the future of law firms ...
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• Top law blog list sparks debate

  
  Reading Tea Leaves by Randy Wilson — Authority: 131
  Mark Herrmann, whose blog Drug and Device Law got selected as a top 100 legal blog in the Third Annual ABA Journal Blaw 100 , wonders why Amlaw 200 firms aren’t well represented on this list.  Read his post here but to summarize, he thinks a key factor is that attorneys have difficulty writing in an engaging ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lawyers using WordPress for websites

  
  Reading Tea Leaves by Randy Wilson — Authority: 131
  Last night at an Alameda County Bar Association function, I talked with an attorney who is using WordPress NOT for blogging as his website platform.  And today I read in Duct Tape Marketing about the same phenomenon .  Why?  In a nutshell because WordPress is a widely supported open source that will allow a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Legal Practice and Legal Scholarship and Law School Reputations: Ships Passing in the Night.

  
  Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity — Authority: 410
  One of the most interesting aspects of the U.S. legal system is that, as a common law system (as opposed to the civil law system prevailing in the vast majority of the non-Anglo-American world), the practice of law and the activities of legal scholars exist in almost entirely separate realms. Having had worked for ...
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• Under Pressure, Law Firm Pulls Down Disgusting Legal Advertising

  
  UsefulArts.us — Authority: 481
  Congratulations, and thanks to you, Lindeman, Alvarado, & Frye, the law firm several hundred of you have helped hector, has pulled down the images we called the worst advertising ever . It was amazing to see some of you commenting them on their site with Google Sidewiki, and advocating in social media for ...
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• ROI for law firm blogging and social media

  
  Reading Tea Leaves by Randy Wilson — Authority: 131
  Kevin O’Keefe in “Real Lawyers have blogs” outlines basic questions for determining whether a law firm or lawyer is getting a return on investment for these efforts.  You can look at the post here . While I think these are good questions to ask, it’s a dangerous proposition to limit social networking ...
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• Free Book Download: Dr. Margaret Hagen’s Whores of the Court

  
  UsefulArts.us — Authority: 481
  Back in the day when I was studying Lay Epistemology , a theory in social psych, Margaret Hagen held a lot of the cool in Boston University’s psychology department. She is the type of researcher who is rigorous, sarcastic, and unafraid to bite the hand that feeds her. Which means she’s fun and a smart read. In ...
  3 weeks ago

• Social networking as just another tool

  
  Reading Tea Leaves by Randy Wilson — Authority: 131
  I find Kevin O’Keefe’s blog, “Real Lawyers Have Blogs” insightful and practical.  I often agree with his take on social networking and blogging.  However, I think this post , sets out the wrong framework for looking at social networking.  Its the gee-whiz approach, the breaking down barriers, taking big ...
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• Law Firm Ads Court Pedophiles, Rapists, and Child Beaters with Ugly Tactics

  
  UsefulArts.us — Authority: 481
  I’ve blogged about firms finding growth by starting innovative gaming practices or going deep into biotech. But not all legal innovation is for the good. The defense firm of Lindeman, Alvarado, & Frye has gone and started a kiddie-porn practice.  And what better choice of imagery for attracting child porn ...
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• Whats Gratitude Got to Do with It?

  
  Settle It Now Negotiation Blog — Authority: 460
  ( may I offer you a second helping of Jimmy Choo shoes with your turkey? ) Before sharing Brian Solis succinct and brilliant post the Benevolent Acts of Reciprocity and Recognition and Highlights from the Research Project on Gratitude and Thankfulness (excerpt below) I want to once again make a few remarks ...
  4 weeks ago

• Think before creating LinkedIn company profiles

  
  Reading Tea Leaves by Randy Wilson — Authority: 131
  What I learned when trying to setup a company profile on LinkedIn: 1.  You can’t use gmail, yahoo or the like as your contact email for a LinkedIn company profile.  While this is probably a vetting tool for LinkedIn to make sure that a company profile is legitimate, for small businesses that haven’t set up such ...
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