Currently Browsing "Law Blogs"
New Additions to Lawblogs.ca
It’s been a couple months since we posted a selection of the latest blogs to be added to the Canadian Law Blogs List at lawblogs.ca. Without further ado… Injury Law Blog (Roger R. Foisy) OKT Aboriginal Rights Lawyers Blog (Olthuis, Kleer, Townshend LLP) The Trademark Shop Blog Goldstein, Rosen & Rassos… more »
Latest Clawbies Winners & New Blogs at Lawblogs.ca
Every time we post a roundup of new additions to Lawblogs.ca, we wonder if there’s a future Clawbies winner among them. Well, in today’s list, we’ve included several 2012 winners and finalists who were added since our last roundup or who only recently popped up on our radar, thanks to nominations from other Canadian law bloggers. Enjoy… more »
Five Questions Series: Fascinating Insight from Successful Law Bloggers
Over at the companion blog to his new book, Blogging in One Hour for Lawyers, Ernie Svenson has been running a great series called “Five Questions for a Law Blogger“. The standard five questions are: Have there been any unexpected benefits to blogging, and if so, what are they? What unexpected challenges did you find in blogging?… more »
2012 Clawbies Acceptance Speeches
It’s been a couple years since we last posted a roundup of Clawbies “acceptance speeches”, but over the last few days, so many of the winning and finalist blogs in the 7th annual Canadian Law Blog Awards took the time to comment that we thought it would be nice to share them. Check out the responses from some… more »
The 4 Habits of Underachieving Law Blogs
The 2012 Clawbies are now in the books, and if you haven’t yet reviewed our picks for the best of the Canadian legal blawgosphere, now’s your chance. We think you’ll agree that this year’s winners were truly outstanding and that good law blogs are flourishing right across the country. I thought I might also share with you, however, some observations… more »
Happy 2nd Anniversary, Attorney At Work!
A quick post to congratulate Attorney At Work on their second anniversary! (It’s actually on Dec. 9th, but that’s a Sunday, so I’m jumping the gun.) With new posts every single day of the work week, that’s more than 500 “really good ideas” – an outstanding accomplishment. Created by Merrilyn Astin Tarlton, Mark Feldman, and Joan Feldman, Attorney at… more »
2012 Clawbies Now Accepting Nominations
It’s official: the 2012 Clawbies are open for business! From now until Thursday, December 27th, we’re looking for nominations of your favourite Canadian law blogs for the 7th annual Canadian Law Blog Awards (a.k.a. the Clawbies). We’re following the same nomination process as last year: tweet (using the hashtag #clawbies2012), send me an email, or better yet,… more »
More New Canadian Law Blogs at Lawblogs.ca
We’ve added another 16 new and new-to-us blogs to Lawblogs.ca since our last update less than two months ago! Here are the latest additions: Administrative Law Matters (Paul Daly) MackenzieDRS (Ian R. Mackenzie) Mining Prospects (McCarthy Tetrault) researchlawyer (Kirsten Thompson) Sport Law and Strategy Group Succession… more »
Blogging for Lawyers: A Modest Proposal
You might have heard about the newest marketing craze sweeping the legal profession. It’s called a “newsletter” — a funny word, certainly, crammed together from two words (“news” and “letter”) that we’re already familiar with. You might be wondering whether this new fad is the right marketing vehicle for your law practice, or you might have concerns about whether it’s… more »
18 New Additions to Lawblogs.ca
With this round of new additions, we are creeping closer and closer to 400 Canadian law blogs on the Canadian Law Blogs List… pretty amazing when you consider that when Steve started this list in 2005, there were only 43 of them! Will we crack 400 this year? Only time will tell. Take a look at the 18 newest… more »
The Jonah Lehrer Experience: Lessons For Law Bloggers
If you watch much TV or read many magazines, the names Jonah Lehrer, Fareed Zakaria and Niall Ferguson will probably be familiar to you. And if you’re especially up to date on current events, you’ll also know that all three of these distinguished and respected authorities are currently suffering reputation crises, because they published articles that contained… more »
Business Casual Blogging: The Importance of Tone
I’ve just finished giving a presentation to the newest class of articling students at my client Harrison Pensa LLP of London, Ontario. Harrison Pensa is one of only two firms in Canada (so far as I’m aware) with a dedicated articling student blog, which I think is a terrific initiative. Giving articling students the opportunity to… more »
Distributed Publishing Opportunity #1: Blogging
Over the next couple of weeks I’m going to get into the specifics of four different tactics of taking publishing beyond the firm website. As discussed last week, publishing in a variety of online locations can benefit both content distribution and search engine exposure, but it’s important to find the right fit for each lawyer. In today’s post, we’ll… more »
5 Ways to Maximize Your Distributed Publishing Efforts
In my latest Slaw column on distributed publishing, I talked about the benefits of going beyond a solitary law firm website, and using additional narrowly-focused, single-topic sites to create a robust network of firm-owned sites. In this post, I want to share several key things to consider when increasing your firm’s publishing efforts, starting with why it’s so important… more »
Lawblogs.ca Goes Uber-Canadian!
Canada. Our true north strong and free. Home of Kraft Dinner, maple syrup, and Nanaimo Bars. Land of the unnecessary apology and Slurpees when it’s -30 (Celsius, natch). We don’t have attorneys, but we have barristers and solicitors, and as much as we love PBS, NPR, and the Beeb, we’ll always have a soft spot for the CBC. You know… more »
