Law.com Blog Network
Bruce MacEwen
- Bruce MacEwen is a lawyer and consultant to law firms on strategic and economic issues. During his career, Bruce has been CEO of a dot-com; practiced securities law in-house for nearly 10 years at Morgan Stanley/Dean Witter; and was an associate with Shea & Gould and with Breed, Abbott & Morgan in New York. Bruce has written for or been quoted in: Fortune; The Wall Street Journal; The New York Times; Bloomberg News; Business 2.0; The National Law Journal; Law Firm, Inc. and Law Technology News, and frequently appears as a speaker or panelist at legal industry conferences nationally and internationally. He received his BA magna cum laude in economics from Princeton University and his JD from the Stanford Law School. A native New Yorker, he lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side with his wife and dog.
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- We cover law, lobbying, politics, crime, courts, business and culture in the nation’s capital and beyond.
Monica Bay
- Monica Bay is editor-in-chief of Law Technology News, author of The Common Scold blog, and a podcaster on Law Technology Now. She also co-manages the EDD Update blog and is active on Twitter (@commonscold, @eddupdate and @lawtechnews.) A member of the California bar, Ms. Bay spent 13 years in Incisive Media's San Francisco office, where she was a senior editor at The Recorder and Counsel Connect (Law.com's predecessor). She helped the "Late Show with David Letterman" set up its first Web site on America Online before moving to New York City in 1998 to oversee LTN. She writes about legal technology, "green law," law firm management and culture, and has been known to pay a little bit of attention on her blog to the New York Yankees.
Stephen Seckler
- Stephen Seckler is president of Seckler Legal Consulting. A graduate of Northeastern University School of Law, he has devoted his career to helping lawyers manage their careers. He created Counsel to Counsel in 2005 to provide a forum for lawyers who want to increase their overall career satisfaction. He writes frequently on career and marketing issues facing the legal community and is interested in law office technology, management and entrepreneurship. Currently, he coaches lawyers on marketing and consults for IPEngine, a patent services company that provides cost-effective IP solutions to law firms and corporate law departments. In early 2009 he launched the IPEngine blog, The Middle Office, to address the emerging use of professional talent in India and how American lawyers can effectively tap this resource. Previously, Stephen served as Managing Director of the Boston office of BCG Attorney Search.
Andy Peters
- Deal Watch reporter Andy Peters integrates his beat coverage of transaction law with coverage of the Georgia State Legislature. He has also reported on the U.S. semiconductor industry, the Alabama-Florida-Georgia "water wars" litigation, the 1999 American Airlines pilots strike, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo’s battle to acquire the Gatorade sports-drink brand, indie rock music and high school football. A graduate of Furman University, Andy has written for Bloomberg News, the New York Times Web site, the Macon Telegraph, the Spartanburg (S.C.) Herald-Journal and the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Currently he is a reporter at the Daily Report in Atlanta, the host of the Deal Watch Blog.
- EDD Update is a collaborative blog authored by more than 20 attorneys, consultants and editors, many of whom are also on the editorial boards of Law Technology News and Law.com's Legal Technology section. The blog covers all things e-discovery, from news of legal developments and product releases to industry analysis and events. Co-managed by editors Monica Bay and Sean Doherty, regular authors include practitioners Robert Ambrogi, George Rudoy (Shearman & Sterling), Matt Kesner (Fenwick & West) and consultants Craig Ball, Michael Arkfeld, Tom Gelbman, Tom O'Connor and George Socha. Submit news items to us at eddupdate@incisivemedia.com.
Chere Estrin
- Chere Estrin is the CEO of Apple Pie Media, a legal publishing house, and produces two blogs, The Estrin Report, for paralegals, and BlawgBlawgBlawg, for female litigators. Ms. Estrin publishes several publications for the legal field including KNOW, a magazine for paralegals, and SUE Magazine, for women in litigation. Ms. Estrin has written eight books in the legal field and is the founder of the Paralegal SuperConferences. She is an Inc. Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year finalist, recipient of the Los Angeles/Century City Chamber of Commerce Women of Achievement award, and is a co-founding member of the International Paralegal Management Association. A lively and much sought-after national seminar leader, Chere's speaking engagements frequently sell out early.
Rick Georges
- Rick Georges is a solo practitioner based in St. Petersburg, Florida. He is active in the St. Petersburg and American Bar Associations, and presents seminars and programs on the use of computers in the practice of law. In addition to authoring blog posts for FutureLawyer and articles for a number of other publications, Georges he has taught law office management and computer-assisted legal research at the college and law school level.
Howard Bashman
- Howard J. Bashman, a nationally recognized attorney, operates his own appellate litigation boutique in Willow Grove, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia. Howard appears regularly before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Pennsylvania’s state appellate courts. In 2003, American Lawyer Media named Bashman one of Pennsylvania’s top 40 lawyers under age 40 on the strength of his appellate litigation practice…more
Geoffrey G. Gussis
- Geoffrey G. Gussis created Inhouse Blog - News for InHouse Counsel to collect news and job postings relevant to in-house counsel. A former general counsel of an advertising and marketing services provider, Geoff is an attorney with Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti, LLP, in Morristown, N.J., where his practice focuses on corporate and technology transactions. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995, and went on to receive his J.D. from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis in 1998, where he was an associate editor of the law review.
William F. ("Bill") Heinze
- Bill Heinze, the author of I/P Updates, is a former Investigative Attorney for the U.S. International Trade Commission. Mr. Heinze is an alumnus of the University of Texas (B.S.M.E., M.B.A.) and George Washington University Law School. He is currnyl in-house with one of the world's leading suppliers of power generation and energy delivery technologies.
Michael Fox
- Michael Fox, who specializes in labor and employment law, is a litigator with Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. He is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law…more
- The National Law Journal's LA Legal Pad is a new daily blog for the Los Angeles area that covers law firm news and local legal developments. We are interested in hearing from lawyers and law firms in the Los Angeles and surrounding communities about who's moving where and why, who's getting the business and who's not, who's won and who's lost, and what's going on in the courts. Please contact blog editor Elizabeth Amon at eamon@alm.com with your stories, tips and suggestions.
Rees Morrison
- Rees Morrison has been consulting to law departments for more than 22 years to help them better manage themselves and their outside counsel. A former practicing lawyer, author of six books on legal department operations and more than 130 articles, Rees is the president of Rees Morrison Associates, based in Princeton, NJ. His blog has more than 4,300 posts and he welcomes your comments and material. Rees is also on Twitter [@reesmorrison], Legal OnRamp and LinkedIn, where he hosts groups. Visit his Web site for more, www.reesmorrison.com.
Larry Bodine
- Larry Bodine is a strategic marketing consultant who helps law firms generate revenue and get new business by developing business development strategies, coaching lawyers to develop their personal marketing plans and using technology to market the firm. He practiced law in Madison, Wisconsin and is a cum laude graduate of both Seton Hall University (J.D., 1981) and Amherst College (B.A., 1972).
Joshua Fruchter
- The editor of LawyerCasting is Joshua Fruchter, a graduate of New York University School of Law and an attorney admitted in New York. Joshua practiced bankruptcy law at Kaye Scholer from 1993 to 1999 before embarking on an Internet marketing career. In 2002, Joshua founded eLawMarketing, which now provides online marketing services to over 100 law firms and law-related organizations in the United States and abroad. Joshua lectures and writes regularly on Internet marketing for law firms, and currently sits on the editorial board of Marketing the Law Firm, a newsletter published by Incisive Media. Joshua launched the LawyerCasting blog to share Internet marketing "best practices" with the legal community based on his experience working with over 100 law firm clients and his ongoing review of research and studies in this area.
Mark Beese
- Mark Beese's blog, Leadership for Lawyers, focuses on issues of leadership, management and marketing for law firms. Mark is a consultant to law firms focusing on marketing, business development and leadership development. He is the former "Marketing Guy" at Holland & Hart. He holds an MBA in Marketing and is the former president of the Legal Marketing Association in Colorado. He currently serves on the International Board of Directors of the Legal Marketing Association.
Carolyn Elefant
Robert Ambrogi
- Carolyn Elefant tracks and analyzes the postings of Law.com bloggers and others for Legal Blog Watch. She is also the writer of My Shingle, a blog to give solos and small firms a comprehensive online guide for starting and running a firm, and trading advice and accomplishments. In doing so, Ms. Elefant occasionally offers up tales of her own private practice, a blend of energy regulatory work, renewable project development and permitting, litigation and appellate practice.
Robert Ambrogi is a lawyer, writer and media consultant, and he tracks new and intriguing Web sites of interest to the legal profession through his blog LawSites. A longtime legal journalist, Bob has been editor of the National Law Journal, director of the ALM News Service, publisher of The Connecticut Law Tribune, editor of Lawyers Weekly USA and editor of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. More recently, he was vice president of the legal consulting firm Jaffe Associates. He writes the Web Watch column for Law Technology News and is author of the book, The Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web.
- Legal Pad is the blog of The Recorder and Cal Law, a daily newspaper and Web site covering the legal industry in California. They are the pre-eminent publications for the California legal community, with a daily e-mail alert for the latest legal news, plus another for case decisions from all California appellate courts, as well as award-winning news coverage and insightful commentary. When its reporters and editors are not producing all that, they drop by Legal Pad to blog about the stuff that might otherwise fall through the cracks.
Arnie Herz
- Legal Sanity aims to help lawyers get unstuck so they can work smart and live fully. Culling ideas and insights from thinkers in different fields, Arnie Herz engages readers in a dialogue on (re)designing the lawyer and client experience. A graduate of the University of Michigan (BA 1984) and Fordham Law School (JD 1991), Arnie began his career as a big firm litigator and then moved to a successful Wall Street partnership. In 2000, he started his own firm and now handles a range of matters for a diverse group of clients in addition to serving as a mediator. Arnie launched Legal Sanity Programs in 2004, offering workshops, seminars and keynotes to lawyers and other service professionals. His signature approach to client relationships and counseling has been featured in a number of distinguished publications, including the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, the ABA Journal, The Complete Lawyer and The New York Law Journal. In 2006, legal sanity won a Blawg Review Award for Best Mentoring Law Blog.
- The Legal Technology Blog will be a collaborative effort between the Law.com’s Legal Technology Editor and Associate Editor, members of the Board including Ari Kaplan, and freelance writers Brett Burney and C.C. Holland.
J. Craig Williams
- J. Craig Williams writes daily observations on law and legal news for May it Please the Court. Before founding the WLF | The Williams Law Firm and beginning his career as a business litigator, Mr. Williams was a broadcaster and a journalist. He obtained his law degree, with distinction, from the University of Iowa College of Law… more
Carolyn Elefant
- Carolyn Elefant’s blog gives solos and small firms a comprehensive guide for starting and running a firm, and trading advice and accomplishments. In doing so, Ms. Elefant occasionally offers up tales of her own private practice, a blend of energy regulatory work, renewable project development and permitting, litigation and appellate practice.
Eric Turkewitz
- Eric Turkewitz litigates and tries medical malpractice and personal injury cases in New York, and has had many results of one million dollars and up. He has also argued appeals in New York’s First and Second appellate Departments, as well as the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. He is the founder of The Turkewitz Law Firm, located in Manhattan, and author of the New York Personal Injury Law Blog.
Joe Mullin
- Joe Mullin is a San Francisco-based reporter at IP Law and Business magazine. The magazine is a sister publication of The American Lawyer.
Online and in print, he writes about the people, politics, and controversies of intellectual property law.
Before joining the legal press in July 2007, Joe wrote for The Seattle Times and covered the Nevada legislature for The Associated Press. His freelance work has been featured in San Francisco Magazine, The San Jose Mercury News, The Sacramento Bee, and other publications. In his pre-journalism life, he rode around San Francisco as a bike messenger, waited tables in a Jerusalem steakhouse, and grew dates in the desert.
Robert Ambrogi
- Robert Ambrogi is a lawyer, writer and media consultant, and he tracks new and intriguing Web sites of interest to the legal profession through his blog LawSites. A longtime legal journalist, Bob has been editor of the National Law Journal, director of the ALM News Service, publisher of The Connecticut Law Tribune, editor of Lawyers Weekly USA and editor of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. More recently, he was vice president of the legal consulting firm Jaffe Associates. He writes the Web Watch column for Law Technology News and is author of the book, The Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web.
- The Shark is a Cal Law blog written by and for California law school students. The Shark covers news and culture directly relating to the experience of being a law school student.
- Tex Parte is a daily blog from the award-winning editors and reporters of Texas Lawyer. It provides inside information on law firms, courts, in-house counsel and legal developments from across the state that readers won’t find anywhere else. Contact editor in chief Colleen McGushin at cmcgushin@alm.com with stories, tips and suggestions.
John Wallbillich
- John Wallbillich writes about the role of the general counsel and corporate law from the inside out at Wired GC. John was general counsel for an energy company in the Midwest for over 12 years and a corporate lawyer (in-house and in private practice) before that. In late 2006, John launched Lexvista Partners, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based legal advisory and development firm.
- Mike P. Maslanka is the managing partner of Ford & Harrison in Dallas. Mike has more than 20 years of experience in litigation and trial of employment law cases, including defending several multi-party cases under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1991. He has served as Adjunct Counsel to a Fortune 10 company where he provided multi-state counseling on employment matters. His e-mail address is mmaslanka@fordharrison.com.