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Stem Client Roundup for April ’09

Posted by Steve Matthews on April 30th, 2009

April has flown by, but the news & projects continue to come for Stem clients. Here’s our monthly roundup of client successes: New York injury lawyer John Hochfelder hosted Blawg Review #209, and dedicated the legal blogging roundup to his late father. The Blawg Review was enormously well-received, and mentioned by at least a dozen other bloggers,… more »

Better Twitter Practices

Posted by Steve Matthews on April 28th, 2009

My latest Web Law Connected column is now posted on Slaw and on JD Supra. The article is titled Lawyer Twitter Practices: 29 Do’s and Don’ts and offers an intemized list of ways lawyers are currently using Twitter. As the title alludes, some of those practices are helping to support the user’s professional reputation, and some are not.… more »

Blawg Review Still Going Strong

Posted by Steve Matthews on April 27th, 2009

Stem client John Hochfelder is the host of this week’s blawg review, which comes with an interesting personal touch – the review is both dedicated to, and the theme guided by, the life of his late father. The publication date was also timed nicely for today, his father’s birthday. And before anyone guesses wrong, the theme idea and… more »

LexConference Interview

Posted by Steve Matthews on April 17th, 2009

A self-acknowledged vanity item: I was one of the video interviewees (embedded below) on the newly launched LexConference website that was covering ABA Techshow.
ABA TECHSHOW 2009 Interviews: Steve Matthews of Stem Legal from LexConference on Vimeo. more »

Legal Ranks Swell on LinkedIn

Posted by Steve Matthews on April 6th, 2009

One of the groundwork slides in my referral networking session at ABA Techshow with Reid Trautz was Stem’s ongoing tracking of the “law practice industry” category on LinkedIn. The slide quoted the number of profile pages indexed by Google on four different dates over the course of the last year. Those were: April 2008: 118,000 June 2008:… more »