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October 2019
AI companies of every kind are looking for data for information and to guide their AI “decision” making process.
This includes legal research and AI solutions envisioned to be used by lawyers, legal academics and the judiciary.
OpenAI, which runs ChatGPT, scrapes the Internet to get a corpus, a metaphysical body, or a collection, of
For nearly two decades, legal blogs have been challenging the conventions of traditional secondary law. A good number of legal blogs disrupted the status quo years ago.
I was curious how Black’s Law Dictionary defined secondary law, and if it included legal blogs in its definition.
Thomson Reuters holds the proprietary rights to Black’s Law
The number of lawyers moving their blogs from Typepad to a WordPress based blogging platform is growing.
I blogged recently about recent Typepad problems and it no longer being a credible platform for blogging lawyers.
As recently as this last week, another law firm decided to move their Typepad law blogs to LexBlog’s managed WordPress
I was talking to a lawyer last week when I asked why he blogged.
His response, “It’s better than being on the 16th hole.” Wild thing is that I was thinking when I asked, “It’s sure beats playing golf.”
As writers write, bloggers blog. It’s what we do.
We find blogging enjoyable and rewarding.
Reading
So much of what LexBlog sees in legal blogging is a reaction to something else—usually litigation, legislation, or regulation.
While that’s important, your content should also include what people want to read – your insight, commentary, and yes, your passion, where appropriate
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The more news coverage changes, the more it remains the same.
I doubt many people remember -or were alive – when you caught far away AM news and sports coverage on those nights when the atmosphere was such that radio waves would bounce back and forth between the atmosphere and earth, enabling signals to reach
Upon the introduction of legal blogs, twenty plus years ago, all blogs were hosted on distinct domains, separate from the primary websites of law firms.
It was a universally accepted principle; no attorney sought to undermine the credibility and authority they were accruing through blogging by housing their blog within a website, which was fundamentally
I saw that Fiona Doherty, a distinguished legal scholar and professor at Yale Law School, has been appointed the Nathan Baker Clinical Professor of Law.
Hey, I am in the legal blog publishing space so the first thing I thought of was how much blogging has Professor Doherty done.
Turns out she has blogged
In the ocean of digital content, how do you ensure that your blog posts and articles reach the shores of those who seek them? Enter the RSS feed, a cornerstone of content distribution that most law firms and many legal website developers are overlooking.
What is an RSS Feed?
An RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed
TypePad is a blogging platform of twenty-three years, currently under the ownership of Endurance International Group. Prior to Endurance, it was held by SAY Media, a product of the merger between Six Apart and Video Egg.
Given TypePad’s present problems, the platform is not a reliable blogging medium for legal practitioners, or indeed, any professionals.
