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"Rethinking the Case Law Update: Who Are You Talking To?"

This post was written by Jordan Furlong: "Take a moment to consider that staple of law firm newsletters (and now blogs) everywhere: the case law update. You know it well -- chances are you've written and published at least one during your career.

The purpose of the case law update, I think you'd agree, is to notify readers that a new court decision affects the law in some way relevant to those readers. It follows from that premise that what readers most want to know is how the decision changes the law in ways that affect them, n'est-ce pas? Yet, as we all know, your average case law update spends maybe two paragraphs describing the impact of the ruling and close to 10 or 12 paragraphs setting out the background facts, the arguments by counsel, the findings of the trial judge (with quotes) and the conclusions of any appellate decisions (also with quotes)..."

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Source: Law Firm Web Strategy, 27 July 2010. Copyright © 2007 - 2010 Stem Legal Web Enterprises Inc.  Reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on July 28, 2010 (boomark / email).