Question of the Week
Would Your Firm Encourage You to Blog?
Posted Mar 13, 2008, 09:33 am CDT
By Molly McDonough
We hear constantly that blogging is the communication, marketing and client development tool of the here and now. Several of the featured bloggers at ABA TechShow this week have successful blogs.
Yet, not everyone has time to dream up an articulate, regularly updated blog.
This made us especially interested in complaints from one of the authors of Drug and Device Law blog. The author notes that while the blog is popular and well-read, his law firm is relatively unimpressed.
So we wondered ...
Why would or wouldn't you consider blogging? Also, if you do blog, what kind of support (or interference) do you get from your firm?
Answer in the comments below.
Read last week's question and handful of answers about hypotheticals.
Our Favorite Answer From Last Week:
Posted by Jim Crockett: "This hypothetical question posed in a deposition of a scientific expert: 'Assume a man. Like you, but not you. Same background. Same training. Same education. Same Facts. But not you. Would he reach the same conclusion as you?'"
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Posted by John Smith - 1 month, 3 weeks, 4 days, 15 hours, 9 minutes ago
I don’t work in a firm, couldn’t you broaden these questions more often to reflect the diversity of legal practice? For all the lip service paid in America to free speech you can bet that people who work in government, especially lawyers, can expect to be disciplined
and even terminated if they say the wrong thing, on any topic, in any forum including a blog. I know because it happened to me.
As a lawyer who works for the feds I know that the promise of free expression in a blog, or any forum is a big lie we all pretend to believe. Happy blogging comrades.
Posted by Law Firm Associate Blogger - 1 month, 2 weeks, 6 days, 13 hours, 50 minutes ago
ATTN: DON’T PUBLISH MY E-MAIL ADDRESS. MUST BE ANONYMOUS!
I write a law blog as a marketing tool, and because I’m interested in the area of law. The reaction from the law firm partners has been generally positive. My direct superior has been enthusiastic and supportive.
However, there is some confusion among the partners about what a blog is, and there was a misguided suggestion by one partner that the firm might appropriate my blog for official law firm use.
Also, it’s been made clear to me that blogging should be done on my own time. What’s less clear is what “my own time” means. We are required to do a certain number of non-billable marketing hours in addition to the billables, so I would hope that blogging counts as marketing.