FindLaw Linkgate: Former FindLaw sales rep blows whistle
am 07.09.2008 von http://log.handakte.de/Things are getting interesting in what’s best called the ‘FindLaw selling links scandal’ or Linkgate that’s been widely discussed across the net - in legal and SEO blog posts, comments on blogs, on Twitter and …
Wall Street Journal starts running your syndicated law blog posts
Handakte WebLAWg / If you haven’t started noticing traffic coming to your law blog from the Wall Street Journal already, you soon may. I’m already seeing traffic from the WSJ and so are a number of LexBlog clients. How? The Wall Street Journal is now runnin…
FindLaw
Handakte WebLAWg / FindLaw.com is the nation’s leading provider of online legal information and solutions for the legal community, businesses and individuals. According to comScore Media Metrix, a leading independent Web usage reporting service, the FindLaw.com I…
UK legal weblogs / Blogs von Juristen in England
Transblawg / Delia Venables has a page summarizing legal weblogs. There may be several I haven’t mentioned. I certainly haven’t mentioned the latest, John Bolch’s weblog on family law, Family Lore - Random thoughts of a family lawyer. A sample…
Spelling book aims for high sales
Transblawg / Lynne Truss’ publishers have now published Vivian Cook’s ‘Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary or why can’t anybody spell?’ (I pasted that. I can’t be bothered to misspell). Amazon.co.uk already has a five-star re…
FindLaw scores low on the ‘Truth-O-Meter’
Handakte WebLAWg / Last month FindLaw Lawyer Marketing was caught selling links to law firm websites, a violation of Google’s guidelines and a practice considered unethical SEO - search engine optimization. (…) Quelle: LexBlog vom 29.09.2008 …
Doug Berman of Sentencing Law & Policy Blog [LexBlog Q & A]
Handakte WebLAWg / Doug Berman, professor at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, is today’s LexBlog Q & A guest. Doug’s Sentencing Law & Policy Blog is part of the Law Professor Blogs network. In 2004, the SL&P blog received nati…
Who are the U.S. Supreme Court justices? / Wer sind denn die Richter im höchsten Gerichts Amerikas?
Legalesed / According to a recent survey conducted by FindLaw, more than half of all Americans are unable to name even one of the justices serving on the U.S. Supreme Court. Well, here’s a list: Sandra Day O’Connor Clarence Thomas John Roberts Anto…
Links roundup
Transblawg / While I’m busy elsewhere, here are some more parasitical offerings: Babelport: There’s a new translation portal out, Babelport. I didn’t bother to look at it at first because these things are springing up like nobody’s busines…
Never write a law blog for the search engines
Handakte WebLAWg / A lot of lawyers publish blogs for the sole reason of achieving high search engine rankings. Their blogs show it. You’ve seen these blogs - or maybe you haven’t as word of such tasteless marketing doesn’t spread across the net or ge…
Internet directories/Internet-Adressendatenbänke
Transblawg / I have just phoned Kelly in London, since they ignore my emails and I don’t want to get a ‘personal login’. Now they may understand that I don’t sell curtains or tables. The woman promised me that my address will be removed -…
The 2007 Blawggies: Dennis Kennedy’s Best Law-related Blogging Awards
Handakte WebLAWg / Once again Dennis Kennedy has recognized the importance of law librarian blogs with the 2007 Blawggie Award in “Best Legal Blog Category” (tied with Non-US Legal Blogs and Solo Lawyer Blogs). Dennis writes: I have to be one of the bigges…
Anus motion/Übersetzungsprobleme
Transblawg / Matthew Baldwin of The Morning News reports - or reported - that Spanish-speaking drivers have been getting out of drunk driving cases because of a deficiency in Spanish-language cards used by traffic cops: “But the defense somehow got a copy…
