I am a trial attorney, turned legal tech business owner, now leading the biggest neighborhood of legal publishers on the planet at LexBlog, Inc.
I am an attorney of 39 years. Wishing to be an attorney considering that I was a kid, I have actually enjoyed practically every minute of it.
I practiced as a trial attorney in rural Wisconsin for 17 years, representing complainants, whether they were injury victims and their member of the family or small companies.
In the mid-nineties, I found the Web in the type of AOL. I started assisting individuals by addressing concerns on AOL message boards and leading AOL’s legal neighborhood.
I later on began my own listservs and message boards to assist individuals on accident, medical malpractice, employees settlement and complainant’s work law matters. Though we were green to innovation and the Web, U.S.A. Today stated if my company “didn’t stop what we were doing, we would offer attorneys a reputation.”
In 1999, I closed my law office and we moved, as a household of 7, to Seattle to begin my very first business. Prairielaw.com was a virtual law neighborhood of individuals assisting individuals, a sort of AOL on the law, including message boards, short articles, talks, listervs and ask-a-lawyer.
Prairielaw.com was offered to LexisNexis, where it was integrated into Martindale-Hubbell’s lawyers.com.
After a stint as VP of Organization Advancement at LexisNexis, I established LexBlog out of my garage in 2004 (no association with LexisNexis).
Understanding attorneys get their finest work from relationships and a strong word of mouth credibility, and not promoting themselves, I saw blogging as an ideal method for attorneys to develop relationships and a credibility.
When I might not discover somebody to assist me with my own blog site, I began a business to supply what I required. Method, expert style, platform, training, SEO, marketing and totally free continuous assistance.
As an outcome of the exceptional work of my group of twenty and my blogging, the LexBlog neighborhood has actually grown to a neighborhood of over 30,000 lawyers, global.
Publishing my blog site, Genuine Attorneys, now in its 18th year, I share info, news, and commentary to assist lawyers seeking to network online, whether it be by means of blogging or other social networks.
Blogging likewise allows me to analyze my concepts– aloud and in an interesting style.
In addition to my blog site, I freely share others’ insight on Twitter Do not hesitate to engage me there too on LinkedIn and Facebook.