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"Social Media for Women Lawyers"

This post was written by Nicole Black: "Social media can be a powerful rainmaking tool for women lawyers because social media plays to their professional strengths.

Studies have shown that women lawyers are reluctant to promote their accomplishments and for that reason, social media is a great fit for women attorneys. It allows them to demonstrate their substantive knowledge without having to brazenly promote themselves. Women also excel at communicating and collaborating, traits that social networking facilitates and rewards.Likewise, social media provides women attorneys with much-needed flexibility, allowing them to network and showcase their expertise on their own time.

Women lawyers can use social media platforms from the convenience of their own home or office, expand their immediate circle of contacts and initiate online mentoring and business relationships with lawyers at other firms and with successful professionals from all over the world.

Social media can also benefit women lawyers who are working part-time or seeking reentry to legal practice. For example, many job-seeking lawyers tend to overlook one of the most obvious ways to use social media to stand out from the crowd: Start a law blog..."

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Source: Sui Generis--a New York law blog, 16 November 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on November 18, 2010 (boomark / email).