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Top 20 Paralegal Blogs, Websites, and Influences of 2021

17 Sunday Jan 2021

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Legal Blogs, Paralegals/Legal Assistants

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(Last Updated Jan 13, 2021), by Feedspot Blogger, https://blog.feedspot.com/paralegal_blogs/

A compilation of twenty paralegal blogs, each with a different focus and content. An excellent resource for beginning or experienced paralegals. I am honored to be listed among them. Each author of these blogs has at least one thing in common – a desire to share their knowledge with others in the profession. Please feel free to write to them to suggest content or ask questions. You will find them happy to help. -CCE

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Your Electronic Communications and Record Keeping Requirements.

21 Monday Sep 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Ethics Opinions, Law Firm Web Sites, Law Office Management, Legal Blogs, Legal Ethics, Legal Technology, Rules of Professional Responsibility, Technology, Technology

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Anna Massoglia, Law Office Management, Lawyerist Blog, Legal Ethics, Record Keeping Requirements, Websites

Deleting Your Website Can Come Back to Bite You in the Assets, by Anna Massoglia, Lawyerist Blog

http://tinyurl.com/nzda7hh

Chances are, you are all too aware that record-keeping is a tedious but necessary evil in the legal profession. There’s also a good chance that you have a website. According to the 2014 ABA Technology Survey Report, 84% of law firms do.

Record-keeping requirements include more than just client files and financial transactions. Many state rules also apply to other electronic communications — including websites.

It is not true that something released to the internet is ‘out there’ forever — especially when it comes to those attempting to comply with record-keeping requirements. . . .

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ABA Journal’s 2014 Top Ranked Law Blogs.

27 Saturday Dec 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Blogs, Law Office Management, Legal Blogs, Legal Technology

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ABA Journal's Blawg 100, Jane Navarre, Law Blogs, LawSites Blog, Robert Ambrogi, Virtual Marketing Officer

Comparing The Top-Ranked Law Blogs To The ABA Blawg 100, by Robert Ambrogi, LawSites Blog

http://tinyurl.com/m72nj4p

Includes the ABA Journal’s Law Blawg Hall of Fame, which are no longer listed in its top 100 legal blawgs. Don’t worry. They’re not gone. They’ve just moved to a higher plane. -CCE

Jayne Navarre has an interesting post at her Virtual Marketing Officer blog in which she looks at how the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100 list lines up with the top-ranked law blogs generally. Her post underscores the vagaries in “top” lists of any kind. But her primary premise seems to be that the Blawg 100 list omits several outstanding law blogs, and that those blogs’ high rankings using other metrics validates her position that they should be included in the Blawg 100.

Sadly though, this year I note that a number of really outstanding law blogs, which had made prior years top 100, are now off the list. Out with the old, in with the new. Got me thinking. Have these once power house blogs been diminished? To cure my intellectual curiosity, I set off to find out: Does the Blawg 100 stack up to the top ranked law blogs?

To make her comparison, Jayne turns to the BlogRank list of the top 50 law blogs. This list ranks blogs using more than 20 different factors, including RSS subscribers; incoming links; Compete, Alexa and Technorati ranking; and popularity on social networking sites. . . .

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Dennis Kennedy Announces His 2014 Blawggies!

27 Saturday Dec 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Law Office Management, Legal Blogs

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Blawggie Awards, Dennis Kennedy, Jim Calloway, Jim Calloway Law Practice Tips Blog, Podcasts

Drum Roll, please…The 2014 Blawggies are Announced, by Jim Calloway, Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog

http://www.lawpracticetipsblog.com/2014/12/2014-blawggies.html

Dennis Kennedy, legal technology guru and former technology columnist for the ABA Journal, has announced his Blawggie Awards for 2014 — the 11th edition of the honor. In much the same way that prestigious art exhibits often have a single judge, Dennis relies on his own expertise alone for the Blawggies. The competition is limited to blawgs Dennis actually reads and podcasts he has on his listening schedule.

Some readers may already suspect I am reminded to mention the Blawggies this year because, yes, I am a winner!! Dennis picked Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog as Best Law Practice Management Blog for 2014. I’d like to thank the Academy, well, OK, I’d like to thank Dennis. I also want to make special note of his choice for Best New Blawg of the year, John Simek’s Your IT Consultant. If you were not aware of that new blawg, check it out.

Our Digital Edge podcast was also a runner up for Best Legal Podcast. it was a particular honor because we were second behind The Kennedy-Mighell Report. For those of you who still haven’t made listening to podcasts a habit, let me point out an earlier edition of their podcast titled “The Fundamentals of Podcasts: Listening and Subscribing.” Podcasts can be a great way to make productive use of time driving or exercising, but only if you know how to subscribe to them so they are ready when you have a spare moment. This podcast tells you how to set everything up to listen and learn.

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Social Media in Law Office Marketing.

21 Sunday Sep 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Law Firm Web Sites, Law Office Management, Legal Blogs, Marketing, Technology, Using Social Media

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Legal Productivity Blog, Lisa Pansini, Marketing, SEO, Social media

SEO and Social Media, by Lisa Pansini, Legal Productivity Blog

http://tinyurl.com/nuj2nwp

SEO has always been about one thing: publishing high-quality content that gets seen and linked to by as many people as possible. For years, the foundation of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) has been dominated by two key elements: content and links.

Today’s online society has given rise to a third: social media. It wasn’t around during the dawn of the SEO industry, but it’s difficult to ignore the power and importance that social media has in any marketing strategy.

Social Media does more than allow companies to keep up with their competition. It allows them to reach out and interact with their customers while building their brand, creating a sense of community, and driving traffic to their website.

When it comes to social media, however, there is no ‘one size fits all’ rule. . . .

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Is It Time For A “Bring Your Own Device” Policy for Your Law Office?

01 Tuesday Jul 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Android Phones, Apple, Blackberry Phones, Cell Phones, Clouds, Computer Forensics, Confidentiality, Cybersecurity, Disaster Preparedness, Emails, Encryption, Google, Intellectual Property, iPad, iPhones, Law Office Management, Legal Blogs, Legal Ethics, Legal Technology, Mac, Management, Marketing, Passwords, PC Computers, Social Media, Supervising Support Staff, Tablets, Technology, Using Social Media

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Apple, Blackberry Phone, Cell Phones, Confidentiality, Curo Legal Blog, Cybersecurity, iPads, iPhones, Legal Ethics, Mobile Device Policy, Passwords, Tablets, Will Harrelson

Mobile Device Security for Lawyers: How Solos and Small Firms can Ethically Allow Bring Your Own Device, by Will Harrelson, Curo Legal Blog (with hat tip to Jeff Richardson, iPhone J.D. Blog!)

http://tinyurl.com/lrrnp7g

The Start of Bring Your Own Device Policies

It really is the iPhone’s fault. Yes, Apple is to blame for designing the most desirable piece of technology of the last decade. So desirable, in fact, that employees of all stripes requested (and, often, begged) their IT departments to toss the increasingly-‘corporate’ Blackberry out the window and allow the use of their personal iPhones for corporate emails and calls. As a result, we have been living in the age of ‘Bring Your Own Device’ where employees use a single personal mobile phone (or tablet) for both their personal email, texting, and social media while also using it for work email, word processing, and other enterprise applications.

Before the Bring Your Own Device era, a company’s greatest out-of-office security concern was an employee who left a briefcase in a taxi. Today, the worry is an employee misplacing a device the size of wallet containing almost limitless amounts of data that criminals or hackers would easily and quickly exploit if given the chance. Clearly, there is an obvious financial motivation for all businesses to protect their own or customer’s sensitive data.

However, lawyers face particular ethical consequences if they fail to take reasonable efforts to either investigate the technologies that they implement or protect their client’s confidential information. . . .

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ClearView Social App – Sharing Social Media or Spam?

24 Saturday May 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Advertising, Law Firm Web Sites, Law Office Management, Legal Blogs, Technology

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ClearView Social, Law Office Management, LinkedIn, Robert Ambrogi, Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites Blog, Social media, Spam, Twitter

Pseudo Social Sharing Isn’t Smart, It’s Spam, by Robert Ambrogi, Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites Blog

http://tinyurl.com/mkqjkpu

I have to admit I was taken aback by the premise of ClearView Social, the new app being developed by social marketing consultant Adrian Dayton. Targeted at medium and large firms, the app ‘helps attorneys more easily share content with their professional networks through LinkedIn, Twitter and other platforms,’ according to the press release last February.

That sounds harmless enough. But further reading reveals more about what the app does:

ClearView Social allows one person in the firm – for example, a designated marketer – to create a queue of content to be shared in an email template. When attorneys receive the email, they can click a link, which launches the application for sharing the content via various social media platforms, including LinkedIn and Twitter, which are integrated in the tool. This allows attorneys to share on those networks without leaving ClearView Social. It’s as easy as responding to an email.

So the app doesn’t actually help attorneys share content they find worthwhile. Rather, it makes the attorneys the conduits or redistributors of content someone else chooses to share. . . .

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The Mashable Hit List.

13 Sunday Apr 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Android Phones, Apps, Cell Phones, Clouds, Computer Virus, Disaster Preparedness, Dropbox, Emails, Encryption, Google, Heartbleed, Identity Theft, Law Firm Web Sites, Law Office Management, Legal Blogs, Legal Technology, Malware, Office Procedures, Passwords, PC Computers, Search Enginges, Technology, Using Social Media

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Computer Bugs, Computer Fraud, Heartbleed, Identity Theft, Law Office Management, Password Managers, Passwords, Social media, The Mashable Team

The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now, The Mashable Team

http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-bug-websites-affected/

If you wondered whether any main specific websites are affected, such as Yahoo, this list will help you.  It will also help explain the Heartbleed bug,  and why you should pay attention to what it is. If you want to know whether your specific bank was compromised, this list may not answer all your questions. So, if you’re not sure whether you should change your password, go ahead and do it.

Even better, find a password manager in this list of the best of the best from PC Magazine by Neil J. Rubenking — http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2407168,00.asp. If you use one password for more than one website — and lots of people do — this is a good solution and a wise move regardless of the Heartbleed bug. -CCE

 

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Jim Calloway And The ABA TECHSHOW.

05 Saturday Apr 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Law Office Management, Legal Blogs, Legal Technology, Management, Marketing, Technology, Time Management, Using Social Media

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60 Sites In 60 Minutes, ABA Journal, American Bar Association, Jim Calloway, Jim Calloway's Law Practice Tips Blog, Natalie R. Kelly, Oklahoma Bar Association, Sharon Nelson, The Digital Edge: Lawyers and Technology

ABA TECHSHOW 2014 – Interview with The TECHSHOW Chair, by Jim Calloway, Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog

http://tinyurl.com/khy3wwj

If you are interested in legal technology and law office management and you don’t know about Jim, it’s time to get acquainted. Jim Calloway is the Director of the Management Assistance Program of the Oklahoma Bar Association.  He is a nationally recognized expert, and the recognition is well deserved. Among other things, he produces, with Sharon Nelson, The Digital Edge: Lawyers and Technology, a monthly podcast. You will also find his articles on the ABA’s and Oklahoma Bar Association’s websites.

In this post, he shares an interview with Techshow Chair, Natalie R. Kelly, 60 Sites in 60 Minutes lineup, the ABA Journal article on the program, and 60 sites list. Really good stuff. -CCE

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Rules for Clip Art – When and How You Can Use It And When You Can’t.

12 Sunday Jan 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Law Office Management, Legal Blogs, Recent Links and Articles

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Blogs, Clip Art, Jared Page, Presentations, Top Ten Reviews

Clip Art – When It‘s Illegal, by Jared Page, Top Ten Reviews

http://tinyurl.com/oda6f4c

It’s a dilemma that small business owners face daily. Where do you find quality clip art images licensed for business use? How can you tell if an image is legal to use in a given situation? Which laws apply to which clip art images?

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Recommended Law Practice Resolutions for 2014

02 Thursday Jan 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Law Firm Web Sites, Law Office Management, Legal Blogs, Management, Marketing

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Adopt These Resolutions For Your Law Practice In 2014, Lawyerist Insider

http://tinyurl.com/lcsckk3

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What Is The Difference Between Good and Really Awful Lawyer Advertising?

27 Friday Dec 2013

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Law Firm Web Sites, Law Office Management, Legal Blogs, Marketing

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Advertising, Foshe & Yaffe, Gregory H. Haubrick, John Edwards, John Edwards scandal, Legal Blogs, Marketing, Mass Lawyer Advertising

How Bad Lawyer Advertising Hurts Our Legal System, by Gregory H. Haubrich, The Haubrich Law Firm, P.C., Butter’s Blog

http://greghaubrich.com/2013/12/17/how-bad-lawyer-advertising-hurts-our-legal-system/

I was talking to my friend Bobbie a few years ago when John Edwards was running for President — and before it was known that he was not just a pretty boy, but a lying pretty boy who cheated on his wife. I had met Senator Edwards and was one of many who were more than disappointed when he imploded. Bobbie said: ‘Greg, I could never vote for him.’

I asked why? ‘Because he’s a trial lawyer.’

‘Well, shoot, Sis, I’m a trial lawyer. What’s the problem with that?’

It turned out that what Bobbie really hated was the mass media lawyer advertising that encourages people to call lawyers and file lawsuits when they would not even know they had a claim unless they saw the idea on television.

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Named “The Best Legal Blogs of 2013” – so far. . . .

26 Saturday Oct 2013

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Law Office Management, Legal Blogs

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ABA, Andrew Cabasso, Jim Calloway, Law Office Management, Legal Blogs, Robert Ambrogi

Although I think it is too soon to call it, these blogs have been named, to date, the top legal blogs for 2013. Some great blogs may be missing, but everything here deserves the title. There are many top-notch regional or special legal area blogs deserving of high recognition regardless of whether they make a national list. Even though the ABA will not announce its list of the top 100 blogs until later this year, my guess is that the majority listed below will no doubt will make the cut.

Best Law Blogs of 2013, by Andrew Cabasso, JurisPage Blog
http://bit.ly/1cjRpkz

Top 30 Law Blogs of 2013, By Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog
http://bit.ly/1hjv0Uj

BlawgWorld Rounds Up the Best of Legal Blogs, by Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites
http://bit.ly/1dWBxoQ

If you are interested, the ABA’s choice picks for 2012, posted December 1, 2012, were:

6th Annual ABA Journal Blawg 100 (a correction has been made to this story), by Molly McDonough, Sarah Randag, and Lee Rawles
http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/6th_annual_blawg_100

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Which Do You Quote – Law Reviews or Legal Blogs?

22 Tuesday Oct 2013

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Law Reviews, Legal Blogs, Legal Writing, Quotations, Research, Trust Accounts

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Law Review, Legal Blogs, Legal Research, Legal Writing, Quotations

Have law blogs surpassed law reviews?, by Kevin O’Keefe’s Real Lawyers Have Blogs (quoting Adam Liptak from Supreme Court Reporter for the New Times)
http://kevin.lexblog.com/2013/10/21/law-blogs-surpassed-law-reviews/#!

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