Why Lawyers Will Share Their Publishing With AI
Yesterday I shared why legal practitioner-generated secondary law—blogs, alerts, newsletters and email newsletters—is essential to legal AI. When AI…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs by Kevin O'Keefe
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Why Practitioner Generated Secondary Law Matters With AI
For years, legal research has been built around primary law—cases, statutes, code, regulations—and traditional secondary sources such as law reviews a…
How One Lawyer Used Early Blogging to Build a Career in Appellate Law
When Todd Smith launched his first appellate blog in the mid-2000s he wasn’t chasing trends. He was a young lawyer leaving big law with no book of bus…
Why Jon Hyman’s Straightforward Voice Still Cuts Through in Employment Law
For nearly two decades, Cleveland employment lawyer Jon Hyman has published the Ohio Employer Law Blog with a consistency and clarity few lawyers sust…
Big Things Start Small
Iterative Wonders, a tech and AI publicaton penned last week how simple, yet how impactful an idea can be. In this case, the launch of WordPress, whi…
From Lawyer to Legal Tech Leader: The Publishing Path of Nicole Black
This week on the Real Lawyers podcast, Kevin O’Keefe talks with Nicole Black of 8am about a career that changed course because she decided to publish.…
The Enduring Power of Legal Scholarship in the Age of AI
Beyond the successful practice of law, the highest echelon of authority is often reserved for those who contribute to the improvement of the law itsel…
What Lawyers Can Learn from a Small-Town Newspaper Publisher
Not every day do you read a piece from a South Dakota reporter that captures what publishing by lawyers could mean. But Brian Bloom does just that in…
How Alan Kaplinsky and Ballard Spahr Turned Niche Consumer Finance Insight into a Must-Read Publication
Alan Kaplinsky did not set out to be a media company. He set out to help clients make sense of a fast-changing consumer finance landscape, especially…
Clio's Joshua Lenon and A.J. Axelrod Join Us on the Real Lawyers Podcast
Apologies for getting you this week's Real Lawyers podcast a little later than normal—there's just so much from our time at ClioCon 2025 to wo…
Jack Newton on AI and the Latent Legal Market At ClioCon Hit Home
Clio CEO, Jack Newton’s keynote at ClioCon this year covered a wide range of items, including Clio’s expansion into the enterprise market, the transfo…
Establishing Legal Authority in the Age of AI May Require Publishing
I’ve been doing research lately on which publishing by lawyers carries the greatest authority with large language models such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and…
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