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Dennis Kennedy is a well-known legal technology expert, educator, author, and keynote speaker with a focus on transformative innovation for law departments. He is the Executive Director of the Kennedy Idea Propulsion Laboratory, a legal technology and innovation think tank. He is also the Director of the Center for Law, Technology & Innovation at Michigan State University College of Law and teaches cutting-edge courses on technology law and innovation at both the Michigan State University College of Law and the University of Michigan Law School. His books include “Successful Innovation Outcomes in Law” and, with Tom Mighell “The Lawyer’s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies” (Work from Home Edition, 2022). Dennis and Tom have co-hosted The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast on legal technology since 2006 and he has been blogging at www.denniskennedy.com/blog/ for more than 20 years. Dennis retired after serving as Senior Counsel for Digital Payments and Labs at Mastercard. Learn more about Dennis and get contact info at www.denniskennedy.com or www.linkedin.com/in/dennismkennedy.

The Internet Roundtable #36 – A Continuing Discussion of Law Firm Marketing On the Internet – What Are Blogs and Why Is Everyone So Excited About Them?

Dennis Kennedy (DK): When I notice that both Jerry Lawson and I have commented publicly that the energy and excitement around blogging remind us of 1995 and the early days of creating web pages, it’s clear that blogging is a topic that deserves some attention, especially because of the ways lawyers are already beginning to use blogs for marketing their practices. Not only do we have an exciting topic, we also have two great special guests for this edition of Internet Roundtable. Our first special guest is a celebrity among lawyers who blog, one of the early pioneers among legal bloggers, Ernest Svenson is the technology partner at the New Orleans firm of Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan. He’s far better known as “Ernie the Attorney,” which is the name of his blog. Because it has been so successful, it was recently in an LLRX.com article called Web Logs for Lawyers: Lessons from Ernie the Attorney that attracted a lot of attention.

Subjects: Blogs, Internet Roundtable

Internet Roundtable #22: A Continuing Discussion of Law Firm Marketing on the Internet – What Choices Can I Make Now That Will Save Me Money Later? (Planning for the Future: Databases, XML, Cascading Style Sheets and More)

Jerry Lawson is a lawyer and author of The Complete Internet Handbook for Lawyers (ABA LPMS 1999). Mr. Lawson operates the Internet Tools for Lawyers Web site.

Subjects: Internet Roundtable, Law Firm Marketing