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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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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...]
Blawgging and trolling are similar to war and warfare, though without weapons, combat, battleships, air strikes, refugees, camouflauge, injuries, and casualties. Often, on account of the need to maintain a degree of anonymity and intimidation, blawggers adopt a nom de guerre, a clever French phrase that looks sophisticated when italicized but generally means “war name.” Great blawgging nom de guerres have burnished reputations (Chank Peters is a prime example). But others have ruined careers. Here are five nom de guerres to avoid. [Read more...]
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...]
First off, no. It’s not dead. I just want to get that out of the way. In fact, I’m writing this no-good-for-nothing blog coming off a FOUR martini lunch. No, Dewar’s. And I’m fine. EXCEPT THE COCKTAIL LADY CUT ME OFF. My God, man. I gotta take a whiz. Hold on. [Read more...]
Lawyers do a lot of uncompensated thinking. Besides creating a wasteland of unbilled time, uncompensated thinking demonstrates how lawyers fail to share their thoughts and opinions with enough frequency and vigor. To counter that, we recommend that lawyers participate more fully in social media by ignoring any reasonable filters and sharing whatever comes to mind. While many lawyers may already be doing this successfully, there are many others who continue to restrain their thoughts. Luckily, Big Legal Brain founder C. Hank Peters sat down with a budding blogger to lay out all that he has learned. Enjoy.
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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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C. Hank Peters is Big Legal Brain's SuperMayor and a world-renowned legal marketing guru. Raised in the era of IBM mainframes and staplers, he knows how to make your firm efficient and completely awesome. He does not speak or write Chinese.
You’re My Huckleberry, I’m Your Jim
You probably have not been following the dustup between male and female attorneys about who does what better, who works harder, and how each prefers to be insulted or ignored. It started with a blog post on Crime and Federalism, written by a guy, and it grew from there. Carolyn Elefant asked a series of questions about what it means to be a lawyer mom, which prompted a Huckleberry reply from a lawyer dad, which prompted more comments, which prompted a bunch of tweets. Prompted by this, I thought I’d lay out the challenges I face as a lawyer dad, contrasting the other lawyer dad’s experience for continued one-upmanship. [Read more...]