I am a fan of Legal Week and did some writing for their Legal Village section last year. Now Alex Novarese, the editor, is inviting law bloggers to participate (and get a wider audience for their writing) by getting involved in Legal Village. I think this is great – we are not in competition with each other as bloggers and we are certainly not in competition with the major legal news journals like Legal Week.
I did like this… from Alex Novarese…
For me it started in a waiting room at Kingston Crown Court. Having been called up for jury service just before Christmas last year, I was forced to spend nine days in wintry February shuttling between a room that looked like a small airport departure lounge and a courtroom. I know a lot of people see the idea of jury service as fascinating, but personally I found being lawfully detained at Her Majesty’s pleasure as a captive audience for a bunch of lawyers about as welcome as a root canal procedure. The court stuff is fine, but all that hanging around…
Anyway, as the mind-numbing boredom set in, I started whiling away the hours reading legal blogs on a BlackBerry, while also discovering the weird and compulsive world of the Twitterverse. That starting point led to a growing interest in legal bloggers, not to mention an unhealthy obsession with what Charon QC was doing at three in the morning.
Say what you like about bloggers, but to a world-weary journalist, they sound fresh in comparison to the bland diction of traditional media.
Alex Novarese is looking for bloggers… read the article in Legal Week and get in touch with him.
Like. Still with the pressing button problems.
Many thanks for this Charon. I’m over the moon – they took me on board !!