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October 9, 2005

I Gotta Wear Shades

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Posted by Tom Mighell

Matt Brodie over at Prawfsblawg asks the question: what is the future of [legal] blogging? He offers three suggestions for where law blogs are headed in the future. Orin Kerr at Volokh offers a fourth future with which I'm more inclined to agree: "A continued increase in the overall amount of law blogging until we reach a natural equilibirum, and then a roughly constant amount of blogging with frequent turnover among active law bloggers."

I've been tracking blawgs over at Inter Alia for over three years now, and if there was a year for a "gold rush" in lawyer blogs, it was 2003 -- by my highly unscientific count, over 260 blawgs were created that year; just over 200 were created in 2004. 2005 stands an excellent chance of beating the 2003 total, however. I suspect that the numbers are increasing for a few reasons: 1) blogs are now considered much more "mainstream," and the average Internet-using lawyer is getting in on the act; and 2) lawyers are realizing (thanks to folks like Kevin O'Keefe) that blogs are good marketing tools.

Here's where I think growth is going to come in law blogging over the next year or so: 1) Law professors. Blogs by law profs have exploded over the past year, and as blogging becomes a tool not only for communication but for scholarship, more professors will look to participate. 2) Group blogs. Lawyers that started out on their own will find blogging partnerships beneficial, leading to virtual collaboration. 3) Solos, small firms and large firms alike who see blogs as a marketing tool will continue to enter the blogosphere. 4) Law student blogs, I think, are a constant -- they are continuously coming and going, and a few of them have made successful transitions to full-fledged lawyer blogs once they graduate.

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1. Kevin O'Keefe on October 10, 2005 1:10 AM writes...

This post has got to fall in the 'I am not worthy category' Tom. You, one of the pioneers in lawyer blogs, singling me out for playing a part in the increasing number of blogs being published by lawyers.

Heck, it wasn't that long ago that I was sitting in my garage between two oil filled radiators trying to figure this lawyer blog thing out. Much of the information I was viewing, including a powerpoint on legal blogs, was produced by you Tom.

In any case, thanks for the kind words.

- Kevin

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