Oh, this is bad: the lawyers reached the Blogosphere. I received an invitation to the “The First Comprehensive Conference On Blog Law & Blogging for Lawyers”.
Is it time to look for “malblogging insurance”? 
Update (3/30): Vinnie coined the term of Blawging 
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Blog Law !?!
Recently I stumbled across a conference titled 'Blog Law & Blogging for Lawyers' going to be held in San Francisco on April 20th & 21st.
Why is there a conference on this issue? Here's an excerpt from their page:
Blogs (short for &q…
Hi Zoli
Vinnie is a creative guy, but blawging isnt one of his…
the term has been around for a while, and some of the best blogs around are law related. see http://geeklawyer.org/blog/ for instance.
more seriously though, I’m not sure this is a bad thing. Check out my post on this.
Thomas, agreed, not necessarily all bad – in fact your post provides several good examples of how lawyers put blogging to good use. I’ve heard of cases where individual bloggers were threatened by corporate lawyers, and decided to take down their posts, not having the resources to spend on defence – that’s the bad part. But that part is not specific to blogging, it’s a fact of life in general 🙁
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