Law Seminars International is sponsoring a blog conference called The First Comprehensive Conference On Blog Law & Blogging for Lawyers, scheduled for April 20 & 21, 2006 at the Pan Pacific Hotel in San Francisco, California.
On the agenda: Blog Technology, Blogging in the Corporate World, Blogging’s Relationship with the Broader Cyber World, Real-World Report from Some Leading Blawgers, etc. From the site:
Blogs (short for “Web logs”) are fomenting a wide variety of legal issues. Legal blogging, also known as “blawging,” has become fully mainstream. No longer just for a few hip IP lawyers or a forum for law firm gossip, blogs are quickly replacing conventional Web sites as the key marketing tool for large and small firms alike to increase their visibility via the Internet. At the same time, a growing number of attorneys are being engaged to represent clients with problems arising from blogs. From employment issues to disputes over who owns the content, the legal consequences of blogging are expanding proportionately with the number of blogs — which by one estimate are increasing at a rate of 70,000 per day. As the first comprehensive CLE conference to look at blogging both as a marketing tool for attorneys and as a legal gray area, this program offers attendees an extraordinary opportunity to get tips from the nation’s top experts on starting a legal blog for their firms and making their existing blogs more effective, to hear the current status of case law directly from those who are involved, and to gain the insights of pioneers in the evolving world of blogging.
