Kevin O'Keefe

MARCH 6, 2024

The passion behind a blog development and publishing company like LexBlog is its key to success. And with it, passion will drive LexBlog’s new blog product, Stoddard. What I did have was an uncanny belief that I could help lawyers grow their business – with a blog and personal couching by me.

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Kevin O'Keefe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Education and working with a trusted partner may be the best answer in assuring you as a lawyer or law firm are acting in an ethical and secure fashion when using AI in legal blogging. Large law firms began blogging twenty years ago, not without ethical and security concerns. They would not do so in blogging – and they did not. “We

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Kevin O'Keefe

MARCH 15, 2024

Give them each a blog and aggregate and curate the content so everyone can see what each other are doing. I am obviously partial to blogs, but they work well for the sharing of information and building networks. Each group or individual that wants, gets a free blog. A blog post takes less than thirty minutes.

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Kevin O'Keefe

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Join me Thursday at 11 AM PT for a Webinar on Blogging With AI. More than a prompt or two, integrating AI into your blogging is an art. Not to create an “artificial blog post,” but to amplify your insight, experience and care. I am hoping to do monthly webinars on blogging with AI. AI is changing blogging, forever.

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Kevin O'Keefe

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

I’m in the law, where I’d guess the majority of blogging and digital publishing lawyers have thrown ethics out the window already by paying others to write content for them and publishing the content in their own name. s blogging platform. AI amplifies the passion, experience and care of the blogging lawyer.

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Kevin O'Keefe

MAY 22, 2023

As with a lot of law firm websites and blogs, the inauthentic content is often produced to drive clicks. When I started using the Internet in 1996 and later, blogs, in 2003, I couldn’t have imagined lawyers screwing these mediums up. Lawyers would need to write and communicate in a real and authenticate way to standout on the Internet.

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Kevin O'Keefe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Blogging with an AI powered publishing assistant may best be done as a conversation. As Lou, the AI-powered publishing assistant for blogging professionals, takes root on LexBlog, I’ll be doing the same here. Over the last few month, I have been doing more and more of my thinking and writing in the ChatGPT app on my iPad.

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Kevin O'Keefe

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

More commentary of use to legal bloggers and legal marketing professionals on the AI in legal blogging front. We’ve not been down the legal blogging with AI road before. I think there is a moment where you have a blank page, and you think you have a topic, and the process of refining that involves research.

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Kevin O'Keefe

MARCH 8, 2024

To which Chmielewski responded, not boasting, but sharing that his blogging did enable him to achieve his dream of going out on his own to start something different. Chmielewski: The truth is that I actually started my first legal blog in 2008 (it’s still on the web today). I started a tax blog. Then soon a second one.

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Kevin O'Keefe

JANUARY 29, 2024

kicked off legal blogging, twenty years ago, there were few, if any “group blogs.” Lawyers in large law firms published their own individual blogs as part of their effort to generate work for themselves and their firm. Not only via the blog, but via engagement that ensues on LinkedIn from the blog post being shared.

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Kevin O'Keefe

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I talked to a solo practitioner, today, who is going to publish his second blog on the LexBlog Network. He shared that he wasn’t looking to generate any work from the blog. His second blog will focus on an ultra niche from which all of his work would come from referrals – presumably from other lawyers.

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Kevin O'Keefe

JANUARY 21, 2024

This gap doesn’t have to persist; legal blogging is an underutilized strategy for solos. Through enhanced visibility and established expertise, a legal blog becomes more than just a marketing tool; it’s a direct catalyst for business growth and increased revenue. Marketing at Low Cost : Blogging is a cost-effective marketing strategy.

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Kevin O'Keefe

MARCH 4, 2024

In the crowded world of legal blogging, how do you stand out? You’re either remarkable or invisible For legal professionals, this means not just sharing information and insight on your blog but doing so in a unique and specialized manner – in a niche. Seth Godin’s “ Purple Cow ” philosophy suggests that being remarkable is key.

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Kevin O'Keefe

JANUARY 2, 2024

Kickoff the New Year on Thursday with my webinar on “Legal Blogging With AI.” Gain insights into how AI can ethically and effectively enhance your legal blogging efforts, improve your outreach, and better serve your firm’s clients. Your voice matters. Join me on Thursday at 11 am PST / 2 pm EST.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

LexBlog is holding a free webinar on Wednesday afternoon, 2 ET / 11AM PT on “How Lawyers Bring in Work from Blogging” Colin O’Keefe will review how everyone has a bit of a different perspective on someone going from blog reader to client—or if that’s a journey one might take.

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Kevin O'Keefe

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

have come together to launch The American Legal Blogger , a brand-new publication aimed at spotlighting your legal insightful blogs, the dedication of lawyer authors, and the distinction of the firms publishing the blogs. Have a legal blog not in the publication? Go to the American Legal Blogger and submit your blog.

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Kevin O'Keefe

JANUARY 22, 2024

I have been working on blog posts about subjects I have written about long ago. I have been writing about legal blogging for twenty years. A blog about legal blogging when there were about ten lawyers who were blogging was a pretty tight niche, afterall. I probably even wrote about the subject more than one time.

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Kevin O'Keefe

MARCH 10, 2024

Got me to thinking of legal blogging, not that we have had an academy awards for legal blogs and legal bloggers, yet. But put legal blogs in perspective, as Nolan did with movies with theatre and painting. Law reviews and journals, a type of legal periodical, as are legal blogs, are approximately two hundred years old.

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Kevin O'Keefe

APRIL 19, 2023

I thought I’d ask our AI machines, Bing, ChatGPT, and Bard, what are the benefits of blogging to lawyers. The answer from Bing, running OpenAI’s ChatGPT across its search data: “Blogging can be beneficial for lawyers in many ways. In addition, blogging can bring in opportunities such as book assignments¹.

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Kevin O'Keefe

JUNE 12, 2023

Will AI be writing a lawyer’s blog posts? I’ve always looked at blogging as a way for lawyers to connect with people through real and authentic writing. AI serves as a blogging assistant. AI serves as a blogging assistant. Moon goes on to a better use of AI in blogging. AI written posts would take that away.

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Kevin O'Keefe

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Have any of you done collaborative blogging or writing with AI? This is where AI is used as a collaborative tool, where it writes a part of your blog post o article based on your initial input, creating a unique human-AI collaborative piece. AI also knows who I am and what I blog on.

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Kevin O'Keefe

JANUARY 18, 2024

The importance of focusing on a tight niche in legal blogging cannot be overstated, especially when it comes to building a name and fostering professional relationships. Targeted Audience Engagement: A niche blog attracts a more defined, interested audience – especially when shared on LinkedIn.

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Kevin O'Keefe

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Talking to teammates today in preparation for my webinar on blogging with AI on Thursday, I discovered something pretty cool. Assuming I want to blog about the case which was dismissed on the insurance company’s appeal, I need a summary of the appellate court’s decision. So much to imagine here.

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Kevin O'Keefe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

We catalogue and syndicate a heck of lot of legal blog content on and through the LexBlog and Open Legal Blog Archive sites and systems. Blog content from LexBlog customers, with a page created for each the blog, the author and the publishing organization. LexBlog does not index the blog content. Customer or not.

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Above the Law - Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I will confess that when my long-time friend Kevin O’Keefe told me that his legal blogging company LexBlog was developing a generative AI integration, I was not expecting much. Illustrating How It Works Probably the best way to illustrate how it works is to walk through a typical blogging scenario.

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Clio

JANUARY 17, 2024

Regularly engaging with informative, thought-provoking legal blogs is one of the most effective ways to stay on top of industry news, emerging legal trends, innovations in technology, and more. As a lawyer, you have a lot of choices when it comes to law blogs. What is a legal blog? We’re here to help.

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Future Lawyer

MARCH 7, 2023

Kevin O'Keefe, the Godfather of blogging, has a new blog about the use of generative AI in blogging and other professions that deserves attention. Kevin introduced the FutureLawyer to blogging in 2005, and has been a leading light in technology for many years. I plan to follow Kevin's blog. AIInPublishing.

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Kevin O'Keefe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

LexBlog has been in the business of large law firm blogging platforms, strategic consulting, coaching and support for twenty years. In 2004, we explained to large law firms why having their lawyers blog did not pose an ethics or security risk to the firm – or at least posed a minimum risk. LexBlog needs to do the same as to AI.

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Kevin O'Keefe

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Twenty years ago I started building and selling blogs for lawyers as LexBlog, Inc. Knowing blogs were the perfect fit for lawyers to grow their business and that lawyers wouldn’t touch something (blogs) they had never heard of without a turnkey solution, I crafted a soup to nuts, fully guaranteed blog solution.

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Kevin O'Keefe

JULY 20, 2023

How far will AI go in impacting journalism and blogging? Google is giving us a clue. The New York Times’ Benjamin Mullin and Nico Grant reported this morning that Google is testing a product that uses AI to produce news stories, pitching it to news organizations including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.

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Kevin O'Keefe

OCTOBER 23, 2023

What questions do you have regarding the application of Artificial Intelligence in the field of legal publishing, including legal blogs and other materials written by legal professionals? Join me for the Legal Marketing Association Southwest Region’s online presentation, titled “Decoding AI: The Future of Publishing and Blogging in Law.”

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Kevin O'Keefe

OCTOBER 31, 2023

These criteria align perfectly with lawyers looking to make a name for themselves as a trusted, experienced and caring lawyer through blogging and other writing. AI can be a powerful tool for assisting in content creation, per Miller, but it shouldn’t replace the human element of expertise and experience.

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Kevin O'Keefe

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I asked Lou , LexBlog’s AI powered publishing assistant, how it would explain to a kindergarten class why lawyers blog. They write blogs, which are like online diaries or storybooks, to share what they know about these rules. Superheroes it is for lawyers who blog. To which Lou responded.

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Kevin O'Keefe

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Running with Farone’s take, legal blogging on a niche is as powerful a tool to amplify your presence within your chosen niche, as any. Regularly sharing insights, updates, and commentary on niche-specific topics through blogging rapidly establishes you as a thought leader.

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Kevin O'Keefe

MAY 24, 2023

Hundreds – yes, only hundreds – of lawyers have published legal blogs on niches by following recent developments in primary law, providing a summary of the case, code or reg and then providing analysis. Analysis they’re best equipped to provide because of their passion and expertise in the niche.

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Kevin O'Keefe

JANUARY 18, 2023

consider blogging. Blogging is an incredibly effective and low cost way for lawyers to gain exposure. Blogging also allows lawyers to demonstrate their knowledge and expertise as well as provides a platform to share case studies and recent legal developments.

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Future Lawyer

MARCH 7, 2023

Can you write a blog post for the FutureLawyer blog? While pretty bland, I could probably have passed its answer off as a blog post, without anyone being the wiser.     Related Stories A New Blog By Kevin O'Keefe - AIInPublishing. It knows a lot, and, for fun, I asked it a simple question.

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