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"Lawyer Profiles: Dropping the Middle Initials"

This post was written by Steve Matthews: "I'm impressed with a recent post by Bob Ambrogi titled The Art & Science of Lawyer Profiles.  If you haven't seen it already, do yourself a favour and take a look. Whether you're in the process of drafting your own profile, or helping someone else, it's solid advice.

I'm now going to use Bob's post to go off on a tangent, and talk about something that appears deceptively mundane: the use of middle initials by lawyers, and the fallout it causes online.

Part of the professional status associated with being a lawyer includes maintaining a sense of formality. When it comes to the use of initials on websites, and in particular for lawyer profiles, this formality seems to have carried forward. Think about, for example, the three-letter monikers lawyers use in most law firms..."

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Source: Law Firm Web Strategy, 8 September 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 September 13, 2010 (boomark / email).