When Todd Smith launched his first appellate blog in the mid-2000s he wasn’t chasing trends. He was a young lawyer leaving big law with no book of business and needed a way to show trial lawyers who he was and what he knew. Blogging gave him a place to explain appellate issues in plain language and a way for peers
For nearly two decades, Cleveland employment lawyer Jon Hyman has published the Ohio Employer Law Blog with a consistency and clarity few lawyers sustain. His plain-spoken style, encyclopedic command of workplace issues and willingness to show personality have made him one of the most recognizable voices in his field.
In this episode of Real Lawyers, Kevin O’Keefe talks with Jon
Iterative Wonders, a tech and AI publicaton penned last week how simple, yet how impactful an idea can be.
In this case, the launch of WordPress, which today powers 43% of all websites worldwide amd among websites that use a content-management system (CMS) holds about 64% market share.
“The moment of conception for WordPress happened not in a boardroom, but
This week on the Real Lawyers podcast, Kevin O’Keefe talks with Nicole Black of 8am about a career that changed course because she decided to publish. What began as a way to signal she was current on the law led to book deals, speaking work, early recognition in legal tech and a role that now spans product insight, strategy and
Beyond the successful practice of law, the highest echelon of authority is often reserved for those who contribute to the improvement of the law itself.
Among other contributions is legal scholarship, or publishing. This form of contribution, whether through articles in law reviews, the authorship of treatises, or other forms of legal writing, including blog posts, articles and insights establishes
Not every day do you read a piece from a South Dakota reporter that captures what publishing by lawyers could mean. But Brian Bloom does just that in today’s Brookings Register.
“My name is Brian Bloom and by title I am the newly-named publisher of the Brookings Register.
I am a newspaperman by birth, the son of the son
Alan Kaplinsky did not set out to be a media company. He set out to help clients make sense of a fast-changing consumer finance landscape, especially around the creation of the CFPB. Along the way, he helped build one of the most influential voices in consumer financial services and showed what can happen when a practicing lawyer takes ownership of
Apologies for getting you this week’s Real Lawyers podcast a little later than normal—there’s just so much from our time at ClioCon 2025 to work through.
While we still have a few more episodes to share that were recording at Clio, these are the last couple from the company’s fine team and specifically on developments at the conference itself.
Without
Clio CEO, Jack Newton’s keynote at ClioCon this year covered a wide range of items, including Clio’s expansion into the enterprise market, the transformative investment in AI through the vLex acquisition, and the convergence of law and the business of law through Clio Work.
But what hit home for me was Jack’s discussion on unlocking the latent legal market through
I’ve been doing research lately on which publishing by lawyers carries the greatest authority with large language models such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude.
I’ve found where a lawyer publishes matters as much as what they publish.
In doing my research, I came across an article by Dave Maney that makes an important point: in the age of AI, lawyers