Legal Writing

To Blog, Or Golf?

More interesting reading from Mark Hermann – Blogging About Blogging:

Zach Lowe, over at AmLawDaily, did the kind of thing that reporters do: He called the managing partners of the high profits-per-partner firms and asked why they didn’t sponsor blogs. Jonathan Schiller, managing partner of Boies Schiller, was blunt:“I think the lawyers here are just too busy,” he says. “I’m too old to blog. I’d rather play golf if I have a bit of free time.”

It’s a shame that Zach didn’t ask the follow-up question: Does that go for all business development efforts, or just for blogging?

That is: “Jonathan, you’ve been solicited to write a by-lined piece in the Wall Street Journal. Do you accept, or shall we tell the Journal that you’d rather golf than write?” Or: “Jonathan, you’ve been invited to give the keynote address at the annual meeting of the Association of Corporate Counsel on Saturday morning. Do you accept, or will you be keeping your tee time?”

Full post as published by Set in Style on July 09, 2009 (boomark / email).