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If you were a lawyer selecting a juror wouldn’t you want to have a look at jurors’ Social Network (web 2.0) sites, such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.?

See David’s Blog post from 8/19/08, In trial and on the net, how lawyers use the web

The post talks about the press of time during voir dire, but I’ve been a potential juror many (many! – can’t they have a random AND a non-repetitive selection process?) times and on very few of those occasions did the judge insist the lawyers move it along. I can remember a couple of occasions where opposing counsel could have Googled the jurors names AND blogged about the trial (and written home about how the day was going), with time to spare. (Always, always, always carry lots of reading material when on jury duty. I love jury duty, but Move It Along, counsel. A bored juror, while not worse than an angry one, is not a good juror.)

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I found this post about blog bullying (inter alia) interesting, primarily because it addresses some tough issues that need to be discussed among bloggers, who are becoming better and better at their craft: A Kierkegaardian Leap of Faith in Social Media: Does a Critical Remark About Opinions Expressed By a Commenter or Blogger On Another Blog Constitute Bullying (posted 8/18/08 on the Law Librarian blog).

I am often asked by new (and potentially new) bloggers to talk about blogging and this is a useful blog post to have them read before (homework!) we have that Talking Seriously About Blogging meeting. Most of what I talk, and am asked, about during these meetings are those Blog Housekeeping issues (hosting, domains, design, layout, etc.).

But there are also Blog Ethics, Blog Etiquette, Blog Protocol, and related issues that are equally important. For the sake of brevity, and the What Were You Thinking?! factor that is sometimes forgotten, I will call these the Grown-up Blogger Issues, for those of us who blog seriously or simply with an eye to staying on the side of the angels.

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The body of literature (scholarly, practical, and popular) on private investigators (and their lawyer clients – or is it the other way around?) is a fairly large one, but it doesn’t hurt to add blog posts to that bibliography: From the always interesting PI Buzz’s Tamara Thompson comes this, “The Conversation Between Attorneys and Investigators.”

The Comment that begins thus, “[t]he point is that a PI should not rely on the attorney to set any objective ethical standards,” pretty much sums up a lot of what personal ethics decisions (and verdicts) are all about. “He made me do it” just doesn’t cut it for most of us. “I was following orders” is much more complicated, but then, so is life.

In my own Law Library, we have the Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (OCDLA) publication, The Investigator’s Manual, by David Audet and Wendy Kunkel.

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If you ever thought working for Big Bucks in Big Law was Nirvana, think again:

From Fastcase blog: Legal Tabloids Creating Headaches for Firms

‘“Blogs have democratized the means of production for publishers, leading to a fast proliferation of new media. Several of the most prominent legal blogs, including Above the Law and Greedy Associates, began as niche publishing outlets for salary information and legal gossip — but since have become genuine new media phenomena in their own right – to the chagrin of some law firms, which provide seemingly constant fodder. This week, the National Law Journal outlines some of the steps that firms have taken to prevent their associates from leaking information to these popular internet hubs….
As David Lat, editor of Above the Law, has mused: “Anything that is visible with the human eye can be leaked.”’ (read full post)

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There’s a blog for everyone (said with the deepest and the sincerest apologies to Ranganathan*), whether you have one of your own, contribute to a group blog, think about writing one, or just read one:

Blogs are for use.
Every reader his/her blog.
Every blog its reader.
Every blog its writer.
Save the time of the reader.
The blogosphere is a growing organism.

What set me off on this post was another request to “talk about blogging” from someone who I hope will give blogging a whirl and think creatively and realistically about how s/he wants to blog:

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Whenever lawyers ask my advice on blogging, I usually refer them to what I call “real lawyer blogs” (and real lawyer web pages – yes, “real lawyers do have web feet” – uh, especially here in Oregon :-).

There are a lot of them and many are excellent. (And I’ve blogged about them here and here.) But you do need to find the ones who “speak to you.”

One blawger always on my list of lawyer-blogger referrals is Jim Calloway. See his recent post on “Your Website: Getting the Attention of the Search Engines.” But put Jim’s blog on your own Check Regularly (or RSS) blog list. (And see his post on RSS feeds if you are feeling peckish and want to put on a newsfeed-bag but aren’t sure where to begin.)

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1) I missed this local event. Beer and Blog’s: Sifting through your traffic stats for value (but I have been to the Green Dragon (half a block away from the Belmont 15 bus stop) :-). The topic is a great idea for an Oregon lawyer blogger gathering.

2) Lawyers blogging and marketing … LawyerCasting™ including articles like these:

a) How to Avoid Weird Characters in Email Subject Lines,
b) Lawyer White Papers: The Top 10 Best Practices,
c) and this one, Lawyer Blog Directories

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