Blog law conference recap
Joe Gratz has a nice recap of the Law Seminars International blog law conference that we co-chaired with Dennis Crouch. Joe live-blogged the event, as did David Maizenberg of the effervescent Decisis blog.
Our goals for the conference were three-fold: (1) to cover what blogs mean to clients and their legal issues; (2) to discuss what blogs mean to the legal profession; and (3) to create dynamic linkages among attendees. We covered a lot of ground in two days and feel our speakers, including the likes of Mary Hodder and Denise Howell, made a substantial contribution to clarifying the state of the law in the blogosphere.
Kevin O'Keefe of Lexblog, who also spoke at the conference, has posted this recap, in which he says:
"Came out of the Blogging and the Law Conference yesterday knowing more than ever something big was afoot. This conference represented a meeting of the law with the Internet media on the subject of blogs. It's never happened before."
Back to the live-bloggers. Joe's ability in live-blogging to document and synthesize the event in real-time was almost uncanny. Joe summed it up when he said:
"I got to meet dozens of really interesting people engaging with blogging and social media from many different angles. (So few of us, for example, think about the securities law problems posed by executive blogging!)"
That's a nod to my partner Page Mailliard, who spoke about securities law issues and blogging. See Joe's live-blog summary of her talk.
As Joe puts it, Dave was the color commentary in live-blogging the event, and Dave said in this post:
"[I]t gives me hope when I meet a smart and successful attorney who is also very much a soulful human being, with wide-ranging interests and a real passion for living."
"I met more people who fit that description at the Blog Law and Legal Blogging Conference these past two days than at any other law-related conference I've ever attended. I won't try to analyze it, but obviously there is something about blogging/writing that brings such people together; perhaps the freedom of expression, or the independence of mind and self-confidence it takes to stake out an imperfect and non-corporate public identity."
What a fresh viewpoint on why we came away with such a positive feeling about the conference! We learned a lot and connected with a lot of great people. Hope to see you at the next one if you missed it. Here are my posts for day 1 and day 2. Thanks again to Dennis and the folks at LSI.
