LAWYERS VOICES ONLINE . . . . More lawyers online, telling it like it is--

• "Plaintiffs' personal injury lawyers have a truism: You don't make your fortune off the cases you try. You make your fortune off the cases you settle, based on the settlement amounts that are (in significant part) a function of the (vastly smaller) number of cases that you try." [Beldar of BeldarBlog, in a long post about John Edwards]
• "If you are going to start your own law blog, make sure you are committed to the process, which means committed to posting regularly. As you can imagine, I see a lot of law blogs, and I am constantly struck by the number of blogs that lie dormant for long periods of time, or are never updated again by the lawyer-blogger." [Tom Mighell of Inter Alia, in an online interview at Kevin O'Keefe's Real Lawyers Have Blogs]
  
• "It just hit me why my blogging grew stale. I got tired of being nice to people. I became worried about offending hypocrites, charlatans, and other shady characters." [Mike Cernovich at Crime & Federalism, explaining why he decided to return to blogging]
  
• "I recently learned that there is also some extremely valuable information hidden away in the digital version of digital photographs. And Microsoft has a free – that’s free – program that allows you to discover from the digital version such information as the date and time when the photo was taken." [A.J. Levy at Out-of-the-Box Lawyering]

As always, if you have ideas for Lawyers' Voices Online, please send them to LawyersVoicesOnline--at--gmail.com.

Comments

[Kevin O'Keefe]

Good call on being committed to the blog Evan. It's not a passive sport.

Real problem is that lawyers start these babies without having the end in mind. What's the goal? What are you expecting to accomplish? How will you enter into the conversation? Who's going to amplify your message?

With clearly defined plan that allows you to see that you're achieving milestones along the way, momentum builds.

It's like anything, when you do it the right way, it's more fun. And your apt to continue the activity.