Brilliant Blawgs

Great content drives business, and consistent content drives traffic. The challenge in law is creating unique content that is well managed, and that isn't lost among "business as usual". Law has until now been unprepared to manage firms as publishing houses. Brilliant Blawgs shows you how to manage the publishing side of continuous content.A simple, direct, and resource-filled book, Brilliant Blawgs takes you right to the beginning. It shows you how to establish the strategic importance of the blog, how to manage the editorial strategy, and how to put the business systems in place to manage it.You will wonder how your law firm ever managed without it.

This book gives you a step-by-step method of setting up and maintaining your law firm's blog. It gives you a complete framework with all techniques to use, structured as an easy-to-follow sequence. Inside these pages you will discover exercises, templates, and problem-solving activities that will help to make your first year of blogging a runaway success. Content is King, but only when it's done for the right reasons, in the right way. This book is your secret weapon: Create a blog that fits your firm, helps your prospects, and makes you stand out from the competition.

100 years after Karel Capek coined the word, “robots” are an everyday idea, and the inspiration for countless stories in books, film, TV and games. They are often among the least privileged, most unfairly used of us, and the more robots are like humans, the more interesting they become. This collection of stories is where robots stand in for us, where both we and they are disadvantaged, and where hope and optimism shines through. INCLUDING STORIES BY: BROOKE BOLANDER · JOHN CHU · DARYL GREGORY · PETER F. HAMILTON · SAAD Z. HOSSAIN · RICH LARSON · KEN LIU · IAN R. MACLEOD · ANNALEE NEWITZ · TOCHI ONYEBUCHI · SUZANNE PALMER · SARAH PINSKER · VINA JIE-MIN PRASAD · ALASTAIR REYNOLDS · SOFIA SAMATAR · PETER WATTS

Places the idea of jury duty into perspective, noting its importance as a constitutional responsibility, and describes ways in which the experience may be enriched.

“Mitch Kowalski has translated his considerable understanding of tomorrow’s legal profession into an original, provocative and entertaining narrative.” —Professor Richard Susskind, author of The End of Lawyers? “This is the most innovative law practice management book I’ve ever seen. Mitch has deftly combined an engaging novel about the lives of working lawyers with an illuminating treatise on how law firms must respond to extraordinary change in the legal marketplace. Avoiding Extinction is as entertaining as it is instructive -- and it couldn’t be more timely.” —Jordan Furlong, Partner, Edge International “This is a must read for managing partners, and for all lawyers under the age of 50. Written as a parable, once you pick it up it’s difficult to put down. And it literally screams relevance to the lives of those lawyers today who worry about the sustainability of the current model of legal practice. Big firm or small. City or rural – no matter, this book is for you. Can the law be both a profession and a business? Is it possible to escape the tyranny of the billable hour? Is it realistic to imagine being a truly happy lawyer in private practice in the twenty-first century? You bet – and Mitch Kowalski shows us how! —Ian Holloway QC, Dean of Law, The University of Calgary “Avoiding Extinction is the most original, far-thinking and innovative book on transforming the way that law is practised that I have ever read. Mitch has taken the traditional law firm and turned it upside down. In the process he has reworked the law firm model and given us an insight into how a firm could be structured and run. If you are looking for a creative vision into what a new, truly different law firm could look like, then this book is manna from heaven.” —David J. Bilinsky, Practice Management Advisor, lawyer and writer on law practice management and technology. Creator of the law blog, Thoughtful Legal Management.

This work on the mechanics of rock music criticism acutely defines the major areas of criticism, from release reviews, live shows and the coveted rock star interview. No other book covers this topic with the same depth and probity.

An eye-opening look at the influential Supreme Court justice who disrupted American jurisprudence in order to delegitimize opponents and establish a conservative legal order

From start to finish the naked lawyer will provide you with a complete strategy and skills toolkit for brand, career and business development.