CPD event - Social Media and Blogging for Barristers and Solicitors

I've been invited to be on a panel to address a group of interested barrister and solicitors over the benefits of social media to the profession. The seminar is on Tuesday 8 November 2011 at 5.15pm at Pitcher Partners in Melbourne.

Here's the flyer...

Here's a link to the RSVP registration

I'll be there with Stephen Warne (www.lawyerslawyer.net) and Elizabeth Boros (corporatelaw.net.au). We'll be speaking about our blogs, including how we set them up, how we maintain them and what benefits we get out of them. 

Hopefully I'll see you there.

New home: the-civil-lawyer.net

I decided to obtain a domain name for the civil lawyer, appropriately entitled the-civil-lawyer.net. I have been informed by the blog gods that apdownie.blogspot.com is diverting traffic to the new site so no need to change your bookmark (at least for now).

I was inspired  to do this by a copyright matter I am involved in which considers the use of domain names with useful terms in them to increase search popularity. With this in mind, the-civil-lawyer.net seemed  more descriptive than apdownie.blogspot.com.

Otherwise nothing has changed here.

Expressing opinions - law blogging and taking a stand

The other day I was reading an article posted by Kevin O'Keefe about expressing opinions in law blogs entitled 'Take a stand on your law blog : Debate can be good'. The article was in response to another blog by Scott Greenfield entitled 'Dead Lawyers Have No Enemies' on the same topic. The timing of these two articles was quite good, as only an hour before reading those blogs I was turning over in my mind the various pros and cons of expressing opinions and views in law blogs (or 'blawgs', as the learned authors note).