ABA Journal - December 2009

NEW Social Media Law Student is the primary Web home and nickname of Rex Gradeless, who is now a Saint Louis University School of Law graduate with a passion for social media and its applications in the legal industry.

socialmedialawstudent .com

@Rex7

By late October, Gradeless had amassed more than 72,000 followers on Twitter. He had yet to translate that into steady employment. But we’re pulling for him.

NEW Strategic Legal Technology is the blog for Prism Legal. There author Ron Friedmann focuses on posts for law firms and law departments looking for greater efficiency.

prismlegal.com/wordpress

@ronfriedmann

Friedmann is an Arlington, Va.-based nonpracticing lawyer and senior VP of marketing at Integreon.

TechnoLawyer Blog covers the latest technology for law practice management and highlights the best of the legal blogosphere. Many posts are merely teasers for content that is only available on TechnoLawyer’s eight free electronic newsletters, but posts pulled from those electronic publications are thorough and solid.

blog.technolawyer.com/

@technolawyer

The TechnoLawyer site has a search engine to help readers find archived newsletter content—but it’s for members only.

NEW 3 Geeks and a Law Blog is a smartly written, make-technology-fun kind of legal blog. The “dynamic trio” behind it are Houston-based Greg Lambert, a law librarian at King & Spalding; Lisa Salazar, Internet marketing manager at Fulbright & Jaworski; and Toby Brown, Fulbright’s head of marketing and knowledge management.

geeklawblog.com

@glambert @lihsa @gnawledge

This site first caught our attention last December when it posted a list of “officially sanctioned” BigLaw blogs.

NEW 22 Tweets Once or twice a week, Cleveland-based law firm marketing consultant Lance Godard conducts live “Twitterviews” with leading thinkers in law practice management. His blog contains the transcripts of those interviews.

22tweets.com

@22twts

In October, Godard introduced a new Twitter interview feature: the roundtable. Its debut topic was work-life balance.

//Business of Law Lawyers and legal experts who have been there and done that tell war stories and cautionary tales, offering practical advice on the big- and small-picture facets of running a law firm.

adamsmithesq.com

adamsdrafting

.com/system

@AdamsDrafting

@SCartierLiebel

clientrevolution.com

@jayshep

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Adam Smith, Esq. is the blog personality and consulting biz of Manhattanite Bruce MacEwen, whose posts are aimed mainly at large law firms on topics that include compensation, partnership models and practicing in a global marketplace.

The blog’s name pays tribute to the founding father of capitalism and author of The Wealth of Nations.

NEW AdamsDrafting is where blogger and contracts expert Ken Adams trumpets a much-needed change in the way contracts are drafted. Namely, he’d like them to be written in standard English.

Adams is the author of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting.

Build a Solo Practice SPU is the reinvention and expansion of Susan Cartier Liebel’s dream to bring together resources and mentors for lawyers looking to launch and grow their solo practices.

buildasolopractice .solopracticeuniversity .com

In March, Liebel of Northford, Conn., launched Solo Practice University, part online “practice of law school” and part professional networking site.

NEW The Client Revolution by Boston lawyer Jay Shepherd almost missed the cut this year because of fairly infrequent posts. But when he homes in on a client-focused topic, his insight and analysis is well worth the read. Shepherd also runs the employment law blog Gruntled Employees.