Legal gossip blogs appeal to a nation of associates hungry for the local scoop
Heard the one about the seemingly mild-mannered summer associate who, after a few drinks at a reception, hit on a lawyer’s wife, then threatened violence after getting rebuffed?
If not, you probably have not been following the legal gossip sites online. A growing presence, they have taken regional-lawyers-behaving-badly stories to a national audience.
Most readers are younger lawyers, says Memphis, Tenn., attorney Lucian T. Pera. Older lawyers often dismiss the sites as unbecoming, or they may be less comfortable posting comments, says Pera, who chairs the ABA Standing Committee on Technology and Information Systems.
The sites are similar to what takes place at traditional lawyer meeting places, he says. “You can deride it as gossip if you want, but I can tell you that the guys and gals who sit around a table at some diner near the courthouse are gossiping just as much as some associate posting anonymously on a blog,” Pera says.
“People want to talk,” he adds. “And the Internet is the perfect place to build that community.”
Details here from Stephanie Francis Ward of the ABA Journal. The article mentions this web site at the end. Thanks, ABA Journal!
Legal gossip blogs appeal to a nation of associates hungry for the local scoop
Heard the one about the seemingly mild-mannered summer associate who, after a few drinks at a reception, hit on a lawyer’s wife, then threatened violence after getting rebuffed?
If not, you probably have not been following the legal gossip sites online. A growing presence, they have taken regional-lawyers-behaving-badly stories to a national audience.
Most readers are younger lawyers, says Memphis, Tenn., attorney Lucian T. Pera. Older lawyers often dismiss the sites as unbecoming, or they may be less comfortable posting comments, says Pera, who chairs the ABA Standing Committee on Technology and Information Systems.
The sites are similar to what takes place at traditional lawyer meeting places, he says. “You can deride it as gossip if you want, but I can tell you that the guys and gals who sit around a table at some diner near the courthouse are gossiping just as much as some associate posting anonymously on a blog,” Pera says.
“People want to talk,” he adds. “And the Internet is the perfect place to build that community.”
Details here from Stephanie Francis Ward of the ABA Journal. The article mentions this web site at the end. Thanks, ABA Journal!
Legal gossip blogs appeal to a nation of associates hungry for the local scoop
Heard the one about the seemingly mild-mannered summer associate who, after a few drinks at a reception, hit on a lawyer’s wife, then threatened violence after getting rebuffed?
If not, you probably have not been following the legal gossip sites online. A growing presence, they have taken regional-lawyers-behaving-badly stories to a national audience.
Most readers are younger lawyers, says Memphis, Tenn., attorney Lucian T. Pera. Older lawyers often dismiss the sites as unbecoming, or they may be less comfortable posting comments, says Pera, who chairs the ABA Standing Committee on Technology and Information Systems.
The sites are similar to what takes place at traditional lawyer meeting places, he says. “You can deride it as gossip if you want, but I can tell you that the guys and gals who sit around a table at some diner near the courthouse are gossiping just as much as some associate posting anonymously on a blog,” Pera says.
“People want to talk,” he adds. “And the Internet is the perfect place to build that community.”
Details here from Stephanie Francis Ward of the ABA Journal. The article mentions this web site at the end. Thanks, ABA Journal!
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