Blogging
Blogging law updates
There are now several hundred legal blogs in the UK, covering every shade of legal writing. A relatively small number seek to provide a high level of ongoing commentary and analysis of developments in the law. We’re asking the founders to profile their blogs. View all blog profiles.
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Nearly Legal
Nearly Legal started life as a personal, anonymous blog when I was a paralegal in 2006. It had posts on my experience, opinions on recent events and anything law-related that interested me. As I was working in a housing law department, this included reports and views on housing cases, then more and more housing cases. […]
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UK Criminal Law Blog
Sara Williams, Lyndon Harris and I decided to start the UK Criminal Law Blog in the early autumn of 2012. I have been a barrister in chambers for 10 years, Sara is a practising barrister, just out of pupillage, and Lyndon a BVC graduate who is currently the editor of Banks on Sentence. Whilst this […]
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Free Movement
Free Movement began in 2007. The strapline is that it offers updates and commentary on immigration and asylum law but it also includes a lot of editorial, policy and media comment and has a definite campaigning feel to it. I wrote anonymously for the first few years. Word got around the immigration law sector that […]
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News v blogs – which is best?
Keeping the content on your website up to date is essential if you wish to be ranked well by Google. Not only does material need to be fresh, but it needs to be original. Whether you do this via a news section or a blog depends on your communications strategy, internal resources and the commitment […]
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Blogging – been there, done that?
All the talk these days is about social networking. Have you got a Facebook page? Do you Tweet? Are you LinkedIn? But we should not forget that the granddaddy of the so-called social media is blogging and that’s been around for a long time; so long, in fact, that blogging is now unremarkable; blogging is […]
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Blogging for law firms
In all the recent excitement over the three famous brand options, we sometimes forget that blogs started it all; equally, we can confidently predict that if unforeseen disasters were to befall social networking, blogs would be the last ones standing. As before, this post will look at the use of blogs in the enterprise context, […]
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Social software at Addleshaw Goddard
Blog beginnings Addleshaw Goddard started using social software over three years ago by using WordPress to run two blogs for a couple of our business services teams. The IT team replaced a traditional weekly email newsletter with a blog. This covered reports on the various activities they were engaged in, together with more informal posts […]
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Current Awareness from the Inner Temple Library
The Inner Temple is one of the four historic Inns of Court. They are unincorporated associations which have existed since the 14th Century and play a central role in the recruitment of student barristers, as well the training and continued professional development of established barristers. The Inns of Court hold the exclusive rights to call […]
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Why should lawyers blog?
One of the most marked developments heralded in by Web 2.0 technology has been the rapid blossoming in popularity of the blog – the abbreviation of weblog, a web-based journal – as a means of communication. You’ll no doubt be familiar with the concept and you may well have a few among your bookmarks, but […]
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Barristers writing blogs
Most legal blogs in the UK are written by solicitors – perhaps this is just because there are more solicitors than barristers or perhaps also there are particular personality traits required to be a blogger! However, there is still a good variety of blogs from barristers available, described below, and probably there will be quite […]
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Law blogs the family way
There are now six blogs on family law in the UK, one from a barrister and five from individual solicitors. All the bloggers obviously love their blogs and have become fascinated by the whole process. Here are brief summaries of the blogs, in no particular order. Divorce Solicitor Blog is a very lively blog from […]
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