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Two Rebels of Legal Journalism Have a Chat

By Robert J. Ambrogi

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What happens when the original rebel of legal journalism, Steve Brill, sits down for a chat with today's best-known rebel of legal journalism, David Lat? Well, if you happen to have a camera present, you get the fascinating three-part interview posted this week as part of the ABA Journal's Legal Rebels project. In 1979, Brill launched the magazine The American Lawyer. As I recounted in a recent post, that magazine grew into the company that now produces an array of print and electronic publications, conferences and research products and that owns this very blog. In those early days, Brill, a lawyer and journalist, was seen as a rabble-rouser. The magazine's reporting on the business-side of law forever changed the nature of legal journalism. Brill sold the magazine a dozen years ago, but his influence can still be felt. Lat, by contrast, is the founder of the blog Above the Law. What was originally dismissed as a gossip blog has evolved into an enormously popular blog that regularly breaks news about law firms and the business of law. Even those who once dismissed it now begrudgingly respect it as a leading and -- dare I say it -- mainstream source of...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on September 23, 2009 (boomark / email).