It’s inevitable. A new trend comes along, and someone has to then quantify it and analyze it. We love that tendency. Blogging has definitely caught on among The Am Law 200, according to Kevin O’Keefe of Real Lawyers Have Blogs. And in a recent post, O’Keefe presented an analysis of the trend. In State of the AmLaw Blogosphere, August 2007, he writes that “of the firms on the 2006 AmLaw list (the number was a few below 200, as mergers have consolidated firms since the list first published), 39 firms were blogging. From those 39 firms, we found a total of 74 blogs. 56 of these blogs were firm branded (meaning they had the firm's logo prominently displayed on the page). 18 were not branded, indicating that the lawyer was operating their blog independently of or at a distance from their firm.” Blog topics include a huge range of practice areas. A list of firms with blogs, and links to those blogs, are provided in this post.
Thanks for mentioning my post Chuck.
My reason for pulling together that study was to demonstrate that large law should not be afraid of blogging - that other firms just like them had found a way to use blogs. Also am asked all the time for examples of large law firm blogs.
Posted by: Kevin OKeefe | September 06, 2007 at 10:20 AM