Die "Macht" der virtuellen Gerüchteküchen

With the rapid posting of innuendo, internal documents and reader comments, gossip blogs have empowered associates in an "information revolution," said David Lat, editor in chief of Above The Law. His blog gets more than 100,000 hits per day, he said. The rise of legal-gossip blogs coincided with a great demand for associate help at large law firms beginning about three years ago, he said. "How much of that empowerment is due to blogs is not clear, but I'm happy to take whatever credit I can," he said. Above The Law's popularity mushroomed with its obsessive attention to associate pay hikes, when attorneys could not post fast enough the news of their firms' raises. Big law firms that had not increased associate pay were included on the Web site's "List of Shame." Dieser Artikel in "The National Law Journal" beleuchtet einen Markt für Informationen, den es hierzulande praktisch nicht gibt. Das liegt nicht nur daran, dass hierzulande die Bekanntheit des Phänomens "Blogs"/"Blawgs" und all…