It’s been an unusual week this one. I have spent most of it in seminars and conferences, finishing with the #lawblogs seminar/tweet-up/workshop last night. #Lawblogs was the second legal blogger event hosted by the Law Society, compered by Catrin Griffiths of The Lawyer and organised (and lubricated) by 1 Crown Office Row. Adam Wagner [...]
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Would you Pay Someone to Write Your Blog?
More and more lawyers are getting involved in social media and blogging – see Brian Inkster’s Blawg round up last month. The benefits of writing and engaging via blogs are many and varied: demonstrating expertise, reinforcing one’s own knowledge, improving your visibility in search engine rankings, and enjoying the sound of one’s own voice [...]
What is a blawg?
To help answer this beguilingly difficult question I asked Nick Holmes, Managing Director of Infolaw, host of the Binary Law blog and the co-editor with Delia Venables of the excellent Internet Newsletter for Lawyers to write a blog post on that very topic. Nick takes a look at the history of blogging and what a [...]
UKBR#5: Deep and Crisp and Even More
There were two reasons for me to celebrate this morning. Firstly, England finally wrapped up the Ashes with a first series win in 24 years. Secondly, and only marginally less important, the UK Blawg RoundUp celebrates its first anniversary with Paul Hajek’s review of the UK blogging scene in 2011: Deep and Crisp and Even [...]
State of the UK Blawgosphere
I set UKBR up to promote the burgeoning UK “blawging” (blogging by lawyers) and with the next edition in January it will celebrate its First birthday. Time flies when you’re trying to do a hundred and one things. The host of UKBR#4, Melanie Hatton of In House Lawyer, wrote in her “Halloween Hoot” of an [...]
In-House Lawyer to host UK Blawg RoundUp #4
I am delighted to announce that the next edition of the Round Up will be hosted by In-House Lawyer (Melanie Hatton) to coincide with Halloween, October 31st. Be afraid, be very afraid … If you’re blogging about the UK legal scene, or on any subjects that would be of interest to UK legal bloggers please [...]
UK BlawgRoundUp Easter 2010
The Easter edition of the RoundUp was published yesterday by Peninsulawyer and you can read it by clicking here. Already it has attracted favourable reviews, so please do go and have a read. Jon Bloor dragged himself away from scoffing Creme Eggs (as he reminds us, now made by Kraft – doesn’t sound right at [...]
Last Up
The first edition of this blog carnival was called “It’s Not Blawg Review” by Michael Scutt and published on 4th January this year. You can view it by clicking here. Michael’s idea was to write a more UK-centric review of the legal blogging scene this side of the pond. The mighty and esteemed “Blawg Review”, [...]
Welcome to the UK Lawyers’ Blog Carnival
This is the blog carnival of the UK Lawyers Network blawg of blogs. A Blawg is a blog about law and the intention of this blawg is to focus on the UK legal blogging scene. The UK Lawyers Network is an online forum, created by Tessa Shepperson. It can be found at www.uklawyersnetwork.co.uk. The carnivals [...]
