Real Lawyers Have Blogs

By Kevin O'Keefe

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Bob Ambrogi has been attending ClioCon since the start and has covered legal tech longer than most of us have been online.

In this episode of the Real Lawyers podcast, he and Kevin talk about why ClioCon’s energy feels different, what Jack Newton brings to the room, and what to watch for in Boston this year. We also get into

I’ve always viewed blogging—or publishing in a real, authentic, and engaging way—as networking through the Internet. The copy, or content, was merely the currency of networking. 

I don’t mean networking in the negative sense, like you’re out trying to sell something or working a room. I mean networking as joining a conversation where you listen, you add something, and in

For this week’s episode of the Real Lawyers podcast, Kevin spoke with Stephen Rosenberg, one of the country’s top ERISA and insurance litigation attorneys and author of the Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog. With nearly three decades of trial, arbitration and class action experience, Stephen has also built one of the most respected voices in his field through consistent

True authority, the kind that earns a lawyer and their commentary citations inside large language models (LLMs) is far deeper than that achieved by a few quick SEO-like steps.

Authority in AI mirrors how people once judged a lawyer’s standing before search engines and SEO existed. It rests on building a verifiable, lasting public record of expertise that both people

Doesn’t seem that long ago that I was reporting that over 60% of millennials were getting news on Facebook. Well it turns out it was ten years go.

Reuters creation of the role of a “social-first video reporter” signals a new day in news reporting and commentary — “vertical video output.” Something that lawyers and law firms need to pay

For this week’s episode of Real Lawyers, Kevin sat down with Matt DeVries, a construction lawyer at Buchalter and longtime author of Best Practices Construction Law.

Matt has been publishing online since the early days of legal blogging—long before “content marketing” was a buzzword. He built his reputation not by covering every corner of construction law but by

Two weeks after Typepad announced it’s shutting down and deleting all publishing on its platform September 30, here’s an update on LexBlog’s work to remove, archive, and republish all credible and citable legal publishing hosted there. Others are contributing to the cause as well.

  • We have identified more than 150 legal blogs still hosted on Typepad.
  • We are working closely

I have been following and engaging Jeff Jarvis, a veteran journalist, blogger and leading commentator on the future of news and digital media for a couple decades.

Being Jarvis was a strong advocate for bloggers, I sat down with Jeff, a journalism professor at City University of New York over five years ago, to discuss LexBlog’s growing network of

LexBlog being the largest network of lawyer-authored legal publishing, I am regularly asked about how this publishing should be used by large language models (LLMs).

The questions are understandable. Many people hold the view that legal publishing should not be used by LLMs at all, especially with headlines like the latest gimmick from Perplexity—its Comet Plus product.

Under this model,