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"Legal Blog and Journalism Leaders Discuss 'New Media & the Law'"

Posted by Bruce Carton: "Last night at Georgetown University Law Center, several leaders in the legal blogging and journalism world met to discuss "New Media & The Law." The panel featured David Lat (center in the lousy photo from my camera phone below) from Above the Law, Tony Mauro (right) from the National Law Journal and the Blog of the Legal Times), and Matt Welch (left) from Reason Magazine. Eileen O'Connor, adjunct professor at Georgetown and a former reporter and bureau chief at CNN, moderated. The audience included ABA Journal editor and publisher Ed Adams and his Legal Rebels crew, who recently featured Lat as a "Legal Rebel" and arranged for him to interview American Lawyer-founder Steve Brill.

Mauro, a veteran journalist with 30 years of experience covering the Supreme Court, offered several observations on the changes he has seen in legal journalism. He said that for many years the lawyers he covered simply would not speak with reporters. That changed in the 1980s thanks to publications like The American Lawyer. Today, when important Supreme Court decisions come down, Mauro receives no fewer than 10 to 30 pitches from lawyers (and lawyer marketers) vying to provide him with their comments on the case..."

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Source: Legal Blog Watch, 24 September 2009

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on September 25, 2009 (boomark / email).