More Law Firms Launching Blogs

There’s a nice roundup of which law firms are blogging on page 50 of the November/December issue of Law Firm Inc. (unfortunately it’s not online).  The article interviews the people behind five leading law firm blogs, and mentions a few others to boot:

• Davis Wright Tremaine: Privacy and Security Law Blog, interview with Associate Lance Koonce in New York.
• Holland & Hart: Health Care Law Blog, interview with Gregory Piche, Partner
• McGlinchy Stafford: CAFA Law Blog (Class Action Fairness Act), interview with Anthony Rollo, Partner
• Stark & Stark: The New Jersey Law Blog, interview with Richard DeLuca, Director of Business Development. The firm also publishes the Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog.
• Preston Gates & Ellis, Electronic Discovery Law, interview with David Bowerman, Senior Business Development Manager  (for an in-depth story on this blog, read “How a Blog Changed the Way Preston Gates Communicates” online at http://www.pmforumusa.com/pages/magazine.asp?Action=DrawArticle&ArticleID=184.
• Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, 6 blogs including the Antitrust Law blog.
• Kean Miller Hawthorn D’Armond, McCowan & Jarman, Louisiana State Law blog.
• McNees Wallace & Nurick, Pennsylvania Health Law blog.

These precedents can be persuasive with reluctant partners when you’re trying to get your firm to launch a blog.  According to Blawg.org there are 1,144 law firm or lawyer blogs in 199 categories.