Personal Injury Law

The State of Law Blogging in Oklahoma, 2008: Part Four

By Terry Hull

? Part One
? Part Two
? Part Three

Terra Extraneus happily adds seven more entries to our list of Oklahoma Law Blogs. Six are based in Tulsa, which had been poorly represented on our Oklahoma Law Blogs directory. We now list 19 blogs: 9 in OKC, 8 in Tulsa, and 1 each in Paul?s Valley and Pine Ridge.

The newest additions come thanks to some help from a few friends. Michael Bates at the popular BatesLine blog was the first to join us in sounding the call for Sooner State blawgs. J.M. Branum of JMBzine.com also mentioned our quest. Bates and Branum were also kind enough to point us in the direction of law blogs they knew about. Thanks also to Jim Calloway at the OBA, who mentioned our directory on the OBA.net forum, which brought us a few more responses.

Here are the seven Oklahoma law blogs newly added to our list:

? Reinsurance Law Blog: Jody R. Nathan is a Tulsa attorney at Stauffer, Graves & Nathan. The firm works in insurance-related cases. Nathan has been writing the blog since Feb. 2006.

? Oklahoma Criminal Defense: Tulsa defense attorney Glen R. Graham has also been writing his blog since 2006. Graham is a frequent blogger on a variety of legal topics.

? Tulsa attorney Dan Nunley reports that he is now writing four law blogs. I mentioned Nunley?s Oklahoma Family Law blog in Part Two of this series. Nunley followed up in an email to tell us that he recently started three more blogs to promote his other practice areas: Personal Injury Lawyer Blog, Social Security Disability Blog and Workers’ Compensation Blog.

It will be interesting to see if Nunley can write quality posts for four blogs and keep them all up-to-date. He has been posting once or twice a month with consistency for almost two years. If he follows that pace on all four blogs, he will still be writing less than 10 posts a month, which is certainly doable.

? Jeffrey Taylor is an Oklahoma City University Law School grad who just took his bar exam last week. Taylor plans to enter private practice, and he has gotten a jump on his law marketing by beginning a blog, Legally Easy, at the beginning of this year. Taylor plans to practice in personal injury, business development and protection, and family law.

? Last by hardly least in today?s batch of law blogs is the Bill Kumpe Blog. Bill Kumpe is a Tulsa attorney who has been blogging since July 2006. Kumpe?s blog is by far the most interesting of the bunch. Kumpe passes along his strong opinions about the law, politics and the Christian faith. He brags, ?My redneck Okie credentials are impeccable.? I?m not sure, but I think the very use of a four-syllable word like ?impeccable? may disqualify you as a redneck, Bill. Kumpe and his blog are interesting enough that I believe I will review it further in a separate post.

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If you know of any Oklahoma law blogs, please tell us about them in the comments section. Our goal is to assemble the most complete list possible of active Okie law blogs.

Full post as published by Terra Extraneus on August 05, 2008 (boomark / email).