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Law firms adoption of blogs on pace with other businesses : First technology to happen?

By Kevin OKeefe

The legal industry notoriously lags other industries when it comes to innovative use of technology. Not with blogs. Blogs may just be the first innovative technology that law firms have adopted at the same pace as other American businesses. 5% of businesses with fewer than 100 employees have blogs (American Express survey). With about 40,000 small law firms and 2,000 lawyer blogs, our profession is right on pace. Don't look at the 5% figure as evidence of slow uptake for blogs as some in the media have done. Blogs have only been used by businesses since 2004. One in twenty businesses already blogging is tremendous growth. Websites were first used in 1991. When I launched a law firm website in 1996, I don't think there were 500 law firm websites...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on February 24, 2008 (boomark / email).