I was in LinkedIn comments Monday discussing whether legal research platforms—AI or not—could incorporate legal blog posts and digital publishing by lawyers, much like how ChatGPT is citing journalism from The Washington Post and other major outlets, under a deal OpenAI has with those publishers.
Some questioned whether legal publishing by legal professionals in the form of blogs, articles, alerts,
OpenAI and The Washington Post recently announced a strategic partnership that will “make high-quality news more accessible in ChatGPT.”
The agreement allows ChatGPT to display summaries, quotations, and direct links to original reporting from The Post in response to relevant user queries.
ChatGPT users will encounter Washington Post journalism across major categories such as politics, business, technology, and global affairs—always
In 1938, a writer from Minneapolis named Brenda Ueland published a seminal book on writing. Her message was simple: everyone is creative, everyone has a voice, and everyone should write.
That book, If You Want to Write, has stayed in print for over 80 years—not because it teaches structure or grammar, but because it invites people to be honest,
Google’s AI is going to swallow the legal web—blogs, articles, bulletins, and journals. Every publisher, from solo lawyers to full-fledged law firms, is being told by Google, in effect:
“Today, you’re either in the Google index… or you’re invisible on search. And if you’re in the Google index, we’ll use your content in our AI offerings.”
In coverage of Google’s
I met with law firm business development and AI leader, Guy Alvarez in DC on the last afternoon of the Legal Marketing Association Annual Conference a couple weeks ago. I told him that it was my observation that most of the people at the conference, including the companies selling marketing and business development solutions to law firms, didn’t understand AI
Most legal publishers have never have never heard of a link blog, something keenly popular in the early days of blogging.
Ironically, a link blog may be a simple and effective way to showcase the insight and capabilities of a lawyer—or a group of lawyers.
What makes a link blog?
Pegged the first business day after a run of conference travel as a vacation—my first in too long. Headed to Santa Fe.
Brought a couple books I have started reading. Graydon Carter’s memoir, When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines, offering a nice look into the era of print journalism—strategy and
Will legal blog publications soon find themselves in the crosshairs of the U.S. Attorney’s office? Seems likely all forms of legal commentary will.
Anil Oza of Stat News reports that Last week, at least one scientific journal received a letter asking it to respond to alleged bias. Now, one of the world’s leading medical journals, has received a similar inquiry.
I’m heading East this week—first to New York City for meetings on Wednesday, then on to Washington, D.C. for the Legal Marketing Association’s Annual Conference on Thursday and Friday.
Interesting times in legal. If AI isn’t front and center at LMA—on stage, in the breakout sessions, in the hallways—it’ll be the first legal event I’ve attended this year where that’s
I share the perspective of Elise Jordan—journalist, political analyst, and communications strategist with a background that includes The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, and the White House—on why AI is already making, and will continue to make, a positive impact on legal publishers, including legal bloggers.
Speaking at the Journalism Advocacy and Innovation symposium at the University