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Sixteen Rules for Lawyers Who (Think They) Want to Market Online

Mark Bennett | November 16, 2009

1. If you’re looking for The Promised Land, you’re in the wrong place. This is the Wild West, Pilgrim.
2. There are clients online—sophisticated, moneyed clients—but they don’t find lawyers the way you think they do. That is, they don’t find lawyers the way the marketers want you to think they do. Clients—sophisticated clients, clients with [...]

Information Wants to Be Free

Mark Bennett | February 22, 2008

In his lone post this morning, Scott Greenfield writes about a federal judge’s attempt to shut down Wikileaks by “directing the Web site’s Internet domain registrar to disable the wikileaks.org domain”. The order came in suit filed by a Swiss bank complaining that Wikileaks had published confidential bank records.
The problem, as Mark Draughn (Windypundit.com) points [...]