Showing posts with label Legal Week. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Legal Week. Show all posts
Monday, 24 January 2011
Legal Village
A quick mention and thank you to Legal Week who are picking up some of my selected blog posts to feature in their Legal Village, an online community of blawgers sharing their random, and sometimes even serious, points of view for the entertainment of lawyers on coffee breaks across the nation.
Image copyright of brewbooks on Flickr, and which features Legal Grind Coffee in Santa Monica.
Twitteratigate:The tide has turned
Following on from my post below, it seems that Twitter is causing a stir amongst lawyers in more ways than one.
It was only October of last year when Legal Week brought social media use amongst lawyers into the mainstream. For more on that, see The next big thing: is the social media tide turning? If you look at the comments against those original Legal Week articles you'll see there was discussion brewing early-doors about who should feature in reviews of the legal social media scene and for what reason.
Fast forward from October to the present day, and a relative social media scandal has exploded. A scandal so deep it's even worthy of the accolade of a gate. Twitteratigate. The whole story of which can be told no better than Brian Inkster in The Time Blawg.
Finally lawyers are getting it. This is what makes social media work: the ability to make it personal, share your perspective, explore what works and what doesn't, mould the message and the media which carries it.
I do indeed believe that the tide has turned.
It was only October of last year when Legal Week brought social media use amongst lawyers into the mainstream. For more on that, see The next big thing: is the social media tide turning? If you look at the comments against those original Legal Week articles you'll see there was discussion brewing early-doors about who should feature in reviews of the legal social media scene and for what reason.
Fast forward from October to the present day, and a relative social media scandal has exploded. A scandal so deep it's even worthy of the accolade of a gate. Twitteratigate. The whole story of which can be told no better than Brian Inkster in The Time Blawg.
Finally lawyers are getting it. This is what makes social media work: the ability to make it personal, share your perspective, explore what works and what doesn't, mould the message and the media which carries it.
I do indeed believe that the tide has turned.
Thursday, 21 October 2010
The Next Big Thing: Is the social media tide turning?
Today's Legal Week has focussed on the use of social media tools by the legal profession. It ran two pieces today:
New ideas in Law: The geek shall inherit... a wonderfully well researched piece of journalism by Alex Aldridge summarising the history of the legal blogging scene at home and abroad and introducing the new, rising talent in the UK blawgosphere. I was thrilled and honoured for this very blog to be included in the article, quote:
Irreverent and candid. Heck, I hadn't realised! But I can roll with that. Alex's article is a suberb blawg round-up, culminating in his blawger roll of honour list. It makes my job of hosting this quarter's ukblawg round-up next week quite a challenge!
Tweet Disposition: the tech-savvy lawyers making social media work for them is written by Sofia Lind and introduces a selection of in-house and private practice tweeting lawyers. I was over the moon to be mentioned in this article along with other tweeting companions I know, and some which I didn't but I no doubt soon will. Sofia's article also takes a look at blogging and Linked-in and interestingly identifies what the Top 10 law firms are doing (or not doing) about social media, confirming what I suspected, i.e. that its the individuals, independents and smaller firms in the UK which are getting to grips with social media a lot more quickly and effectively than the larger firms.
These two articles have brought the UK's legal social media scene to the fore, their angle very much that social media is here to be embraced and not policed, and I predict we'll now see the tide changing with more of our profession surfing the social media waves.
Cartoon courtesy of Geek & Poke
New ideas in Law: The geek shall inherit... a wonderfully well researched piece of journalism by Alex Aldridge summarising the history of the legal blogging scene at home and abroad and introducing the new, rising talent in the UK blawgosphere. I was thrilled and honoured for this very blog to be included in the article, quote:
"Then there's In-House Lawyer, a more serious, non-fictional, yet still distinctly irreverent insider account of life as an in-house lawyer, authored by Melanie Hatton, a former Mayer Brown lawyer who is now head of legal and company secretary at Latitude Digital Marketing. In it, Hatton reflects candidly on issues facing in-house counsel, with recent posts including a piece drawing attention to the friction between in-house legal departments and sales teams in companies and an admission that she always leaves anything litigious to a Friday, the day of the week when "opposing counsel seem much more inclined to strike a deal with less antagonism".
Irreverent and candid. Heck, I hadn't realised! But I can roll with that. Alex's article is a suberb blawg round-up, culminating in his blawger roll of honour list. It makes my job of hosting this quarter's ukblawg round-up next week quite a challenge!
Tweet Disposition: the tech-savvy lawyers making social media work for them is written by Sofia Lind and introduces a selection of in-house and private practice tweeting lawyers. I was over the moon to be mentioned in this article along with other tweeting companions I know, and some which I didn't but I no doubt soon will. Sofia's article also takes a look at blogging and Linked-in and interestingly identifies what the Top 10 law firms are doing (or not doing) about social media, confirming what I suspected, i.e. that its the individuals, independents and smaller firms in the UK which are getting to grips with social media a lot more quickly and effectively than the larger firms.
These two articles have brought the UK's legal social media scene to the fore, their angle very much that social media is here to be embraced and not policed, and I predict we'll now see the tide changing with more of our profession surfing the social media waves.
Thursday, 16 September 2010
Branded Part 4: It's Lawyering, but not as we know it
Well, things are finally starting to move forward on the personal brand quest front. I was delighted to speak with Legal Week recently in relation to a peice which they're writing on Tweeting Lawyers (I'll link to the piece once t goes live); I have an interview lined up for late September with 22Twts (a real time Twitter interview which asks 22 questions of tweeting lawyers, and I have the honour of being their first interview of an in-house lawyer), and finally I have myself a press deadline (scary) as I've been asked to provide an opinion piece for the Solicitors Journal on the recent Akzo Nobel case decison on privilege and the in-house lawyer.
It's lawyering, but not as we know it.
It's lawyering, but not as we know it.
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