Blog Law and Blogging for Lawyers Conference
Please join us if you can here in San Francisco April 20-21 at Blog Law and Blogging for Lawyers Conference, which is being put on by Law Seminars International.
I am co-chairing along with Dennis Crouch of the Patently-O Law Blog, who is more organized than I am and has already blogged this. Dennis is a terrific example of how a substantive law blog can serve as a top-notch legal resource and showcase his talent and law firm McDonnell Boehnen at the same time.
What I really like about LSI conferences is they are designed for interacting and connecting, as opposed to just message broadcasting --isn't that the point of taking the time to attend in person? So we hope everyone who comes will participate and leave with new friends and ideas.
Kevin Heller at Techlawadvisor has also been very kind to post about the conference. He notes the influx of lawyers from big firms into the blogosphere, like myself and the bloggers at Davis Wright Tremaine and McGlinchey Stafford, which must be a sign of the mainstream trend to a veteran like Kevin.
Also Kevin O'Keefe of LexBlog, who is speaking about the business of legal blogging, has posted about the conference. If it weren't for Kevin, I would probably still just be thinking about having a blog in my copious free time.
We are hoping to have a lively mix of perspectives at the conference, and we are very lucky that top bloggers Denise Howell of Bag and Baggage, who has posted about the conference on Between Lawyers, and Mary Hodder of Napsterization have agreed to speak. They are both prime examples of how generous and welcoming the blogosphere and its so-called A-List crowd can be.
On the academic side, we have Lauren Gelman of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, Ray Nimmer of University of Houston Law Center, Rory Little of UC Hastings Law School, and David Hricik of Mercer Law School.
On the public interest side, we have Kurt Opsahl of the EFF, Mia Garlick of Creative Commons, and Terry Gross of Gross & Belsky.
On the corporate media side we have Jennifer Collins of American Lawyer Media's Law.com, Glenn Otis Brown of Google, Rick Danis of Yahoo!, and Jodi Baumann of Network Appliance's PR.
On the law firm side, we have Raymond Hixson of Heller Ehrman, Bruce Johnson and Greg Kopta of Davis Wright Tremaine, Bennett Koren of McGlinchey Stafford, Page Mailliard of Wilson Sonsini, Marc Martin of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, and Uli Widmaier of Pattishall McAuliffe.
So hopefully this mix will result in a good discussion about where the blogosphere is coming from and where it is going, and a chance to meet other birds of a feather!
We also think this roster reflects a nice cross-section of speakers, in reference toLisa Stone's Surfette classic post on the subject. Lisa, along with Elisa Camahort and Jori Des Jardins, founded BlogHerCon, which is being held again this July.
