Big Legal Brain Wins International Blawg Award

Top 25 Blawg Award from the Minnesota State Bar Association

Big Legal Brain is pleased to announce that it has been chosen as one of the world’s Top 25 Blawgs, as adjusted by Central Daylight Time and other regional limitations. In a gala announcement through its own RSS feed, the Minnesota State Bar Association chose Big Legal Brain—and twenty-four other similarly inspired blogs—as one of the Top 25 Minnesota Blawgs in 2011.
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Big Legal Brain’s Holiday Gift Guide for Lawyers

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We’ve been in the business for a number of months now, which makes us experts on what lawyers need and want. And experts on what people should give lawyers besides a large flaming bag of whoopass. That’s why we’ve put together the first annual Holiday Gift Guide for Lawyers.

Holiday Gift Guide

Whether it’s a Comfy Spiderman Throw Blanket with Sleeves or a Ms. Legal Wig Sexy Lawyer Costume Accessory, we’ve done a lot of research to come up with our definitive list of gifts for modern lawyers. If you have a suggested gift, let us know.

We nearly called it an Advent Calendar but there’s apparently a trademark on that. Or something the legal people said about religion. So, instead we’ve got a countdown from 24 to 1, with suggested gifts now listed through Day 15. We’ll keep adding them as the days get closer to whatever holiday you are managing to work through again this year. So, happy holidays from us. It’s been a good and productive year.

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Where to Find Chank and Big Legal Brain

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Like most marketing and law practice gurus, when I’m out of blogging ideas I highlight any remotely interesting upcoming speaking engagements and mall appearances.  Luckily, I’ve started to line up quite a few things, including appearances involving tattoos, progressive rock, and creative financing with your IOLTA. Here are the upcoming highlights. [Read more...]

Thursdays: Chank Day at Bitter Lawyer

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In case you were wondering about my drastic reduction in posts in recent weeks, it’s because of the big firm legal humor site Bitter Lawyer. I write a column for Bitter Lawyer every other Thursday and, because of intense quality control there, it takes me a lot of time to get those posts done and approved. How did I get roped into that deal? Well, the swell guys over at Lawyerist Media, the outfit that now owns Bitter Lawyer and half of all of the legal blogs in Nebraska and North Dakota, showed me the analytics: 3.7 million hits per day, all unique, with 2.1 million of those hits from big firm partners. I wanted in on that action and, on top of that, they promised free booze, my own vending machine, and a pair of Allen Edmonds every time someone clicked on an affiliate ad. Not bad. I took them up on the offer. [Read more...]

Big Legal Brain Acquires Latvian Humor Site

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Big Legal Brain, a global leader in cloud-based legal humor, has acquired the Latvian site of lielaslikumusmadzeņu.eu, adding to its brand one of the leading legal humor sites in the Baltic region.

The site is the thirteenth top trafficked Latvian-language legal humor site south of Estonia, excluding the Riga region. Smadzeņu, as it is more popularly known, represents a growing international demand for American-style legal humor. [Read more...]

Chank Submits His Application for Thought Leader Status

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C. Hank (“Chank”) Peters, BLB’s founder, has submitted his application to become a thought leader among legal professionals and social media consultants. In a letter to fellow thought leaders Kevin O’Keefe, Chris Brogan, and Ashton Kutcher, Chank outlined his experience and his unwavering dedication to the skill of thinking. The text of Chank’s hand-written submission follows. [Read more...]

The Crapfest We Call Our Top 10 Posts

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Big Legal Brain is all about providing attorneys with cutting-edge practice management tips and resources, such as our paperweight total practice management solution. As we like to put it, we provide big-brain ideas for small-brain clients. Thus, when the rest of the world is in the middle of recounting all of the best blog posts of the prior year, we instead look ahead to our top 10 posts for the coming year, 2011. We expect these posts to deliver. And we mean big time, as in:
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