Podcast: Law professor blogs

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The recent Bloggership conference drew attention to the role of blogs in legal scholarship. On this week’s legal-affairs podcast Coast to Coast, we continue the discussion. Joining us to debate law professor blogs as legal scholarship are three highly regarded law professors and bloggers:…

Adapt or die: A lesson for law firm PR

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Public relations dean Richard Edelman has the best statement I’ve ever read on how the PR business must adapt in order to survive and thrive in the new media environment. A key quote:

“[W]e need to amend our work product, to get away from message triangles, hyped up press releases and controlling access to

20 words, tops, on a Web page

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We all know this intuitively, but we don’t all practice it. Web design guru Jakob Nielsen says 20 words is all most Web page visitors read before moving on, according to Leslie Walker in The Washington Post. Three-quarters of visitors don’t scroll down to see what’s below the first screen. On average, visitors spend…

New site targets ‘mystery bills’

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A new Web site is home base to a campaign that asks Congress not to act so hastily on bills that the public has no time to review them. Called ReadtheBill.org, the site has launched a new Mystery Busters initiative urging members of Congress to vote against any legislation or conference report that has…

New blog discusses law firm diversity

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A new blog, Law Firm Diversity, describes its purpose as promoting a rational discussion about the so-called business case for law firm diversity: that “the creativity and problem-solving ability of a group is a function of diversity.”

The blog is written by Mister Thorne, a freelance writer and editor in San Francisco. Although not…