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Jennifer Murphy Romig on Legal Blogging

Here is the abstract:

This article brings scholarly attention to the blog posts, tweets, updates and other writing on social media that many lawyers generate and many others would consider generating, if they had the time and skill to do so. In the broadest terms, this genre of writing is “public legal writing”: writing by lawyers not for any specific client but for dissemination to the public or through wide distribution channels, particularly the Internet. Legal blogging is a good entry point into public legal writing because legalblog posts often share some analytical features of longer articles alongside conversational conventions typical of writing on social media. Legal blogging is certainly not new, but this article brings new attention to it.

The article begins by reviewing helpful (non-legal) advice from two recent writing guidebooks, Christopher Johnson’s Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little and Roy Peter Clark’s How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times. Primed by the ideas in these books, the article explores the genre of legal blogging through two case studies of legal blog posts in 2014. Finally, the article puts legal blogging into context by addressing its similarities to and differences from traditional legal writing. Legal blogging offers a respite from the formalities of traditional legal writing, but it also brings its own set of expectations and constraints that define the evolving boundaries of this genre.

Pew Research Report on Tech and Workers

December 31st, 2014 by Eric E. Johnson

The first-listed key finding of the report is this: Email and the internet are deemed the most important communications and information tools among online workers.

Two comments: First, I would say that the importance of the internet is not very surprising, particularly considering this survey finding was limited to online workers. Second, it needs to be pointed out that e-mail is one application of the internet. So saying E-mail and internet is kind of like saying driving automobiles to work and driving automobiles.

The report s summary says:

What is potentially surprising is that even in the face of constantly evolving forms of digital communication, potential threats like phishing, hacking and spam, and dire warnings about lost productivity and email overuse, email continues to be the main digital artery that workers believe is important to their jobs. Since taking hold a generation ago, email has not loosened its grip on the American workplace.

To me what s surprising is that after all these years we still don t have more effective ways to deal with spam.

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