There is no shortage of blogs written by those in the legal profession. Below are thirteen blogs worth checking out either because they provide useful information or because they are entertaining. This is the first part of an ongoing series profiling the many blogs out there written by lawyers and law students. Continue Reading

More and more lawyers are starting to maintain a blog. There are any number of reasons why this makes sense whether it is for marketing purposes, or just educating the world on a particular area of law. While having interesting content is a good start, every legal blog faces the obstacle of attracting readers. There are a variety of sources to help determine who your audience is and general advice on maintaining a good blog. While choking down all of the information out there, a simple and cheap solution to consider is a brand new service called RSS Hugger. The concept is fairly simple: A blogger buys a page at RSS Hugger for $10-$20 which they then “own” for ten years. That page is registered in the site’s directory in up to five categories and receives a feed from the blog. The end result is frequent links back to the actual blog and (hopefully) new readers who find the blog via RSS Hugger. The links back to the blog are important for increasing the blog’s performance in search engine results. It is unclear if RSS Hugger will take off, but it is worth taking a flier on just to see since the better the site does the more valuable the links back will be for your blog.

Technology is just another way to spend money if it does not make life better in someway: more efficient, more fun, less painful, ect. The Jawbone Bluetooth Headset from Aliph is a product that will make lawyers more efficient and possible safer. I will be the first to admit, people who walk around talking on little bluetooth headsets are not only annoying but also ripe for ridicule. However, there is an underlying practical purpose to those devices: in the car. Continue Reading

Rule 1) Declare war on cheap

Explanation: Cheap items are not your friend. In fact they are your enemy and you should declare war on them (or if you prefer an authorization to use force). Cheap items can be both inexpensive or expensive, but they all consist of two components:

• poor materials
• unskilled craftsmanship/design

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