This study looks closely at which lawyers read and post in law blogs, and how much they use them. The study gives detailed distinct data sets on blog readers and posters, as well as data on their evaluation of the effectiveness of blog posting. Respondents list their favorite law blogs and their feelings about their firm’s strategies in legal blogging.
Just a few of this report’s many findings are:
- The mean time spent by lawyers in the sample on reading blogs is 24.48 minutes per day.
- By age group, the highest percentage of respondents who have written a blog post for a legal blog were in the 40-49 age range.
- Above the Law was the most-read law blog for the lawyers in the sample.
- Female respondents were generally less enthusiastic than males about the effectiveness of blog posting but females nonetheless posted more often than males.
Data in the reports is based on a survey of 261 lawyers from major law firms in the United States, predominantly firms with more than 500 lawyers. Data in the report is broken down by legal field or specialty, gender, work title, ranking of law school attended, and size of the law firm.
Table of Contents
THE QUESTIONNAIRE
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SAMPLE
- Participant list
List of Tables
- Table 1.1 How much time. on average, in minutes per day, do you spend reading law or law-related blogs?
- Table 1.2 How much time. on average, in minutes per day, do you spend reading law or law-related blogs? Broken out by predominant legal field
- Table 1.3 How much time. on average, in minutes per day, do you spend reading law or law-related blogs? Broken out by age of respondent
- Table 1.4 How much time. on average, in minutes per day, do you spend reading law or law-related blogs? Broken out by gender of respondent
- Table 1.5 How much time. on average, in minutes per day, do you spend reading law or law-related blogs? Broken out by size of law firm
- Table 1.6 How much time. on average, in minutes per day, do you spend reading law or law-related blogs? Broken out by work title
- Table 1.7 How much time. on average, in minutes per day, do you spend reading law or law-related blogs? Broken out by political views
- Table 1.8 How much time, on average, in minutes per day, do you spend reading law or law-related blogs? Broken out by assessment of law school
- Table 2.1 Have you ever written a blog post for a legal blog?
- Table 2.2 Have you ever written a blog post for a legal blog? Broken out by predominant legal field
- Table 2.3 Have you ever written a blog post for a legal blog? Broken out by age of respondent
- Table 2.4 Have you ever written a blog post for a legal blog? Broken out by gender of respondent
- Table 2.5 Have you ever written a blog post for a legal blog? Broken out by size of law firm
- Table 2.6 Have you ever written a blog post for a legal blog? Broken out by work title
- Table 2.7 Have you ever written a blog post for a legal blog? Broken out by political views
- Table 2.8 Have you ever written a blog post for a legal blog? Broken out by assessment of law school
- Table 3.1 Approximately how many total blog posts have you made in legal blogs in the past year?
- Table 3.2 Approximately how many total blog posts have you made in legal blogs in the past year? Broken out by predominant legal field
- Table 3.3 Approximately how many total blog posts have you made in legal blogs in the past year? Broken out by age of respondent
- Table 3.4 Approximately how many total blog posts have you made in legal blogs in the past year? Broken out by gender of respondent
- Table 3.5 Approximately how many total blog posts have you made in legal blogs in the past year? Broken out by size of law firm
- Table 3.6 Approximately how many total blog posts have you made in legal blogs in the past year? Broken out by work title
- Table 3.7 Approximately how many total blog posts have you made in legal blogs in the past year? Broken out by political views
- Table 3.8 Approximately how many total blog posts have you made in legal blogs in the past year? Broken out by assessment of law school
- Table 4.1 How effective would you say have your blog posts been in advancing your career goals?
- Table 4.2 How effective would you say have your blog posts been in advancing your career goals? Broken out by predominant legal field
- Table 4.3 How effective would you say have your blog posts been in advancing your career goals? Broken out by age of respondent
- Table 4.4 How effective would you say have your blog posts been in advancing your career goals? Broken out by gender of respondent
- Table 4.5 How effective would you say have your blog posts been in advancing your career goals? Broken out by size of law firm
- Table 4.6 How effective would you say have your blog posts been in advancing your career goals? Broken out by work title
- Table 4.7 How effective would you say have your blog posts been in advancing your career goals? Broken out by political views
- Table 4.8 How effective would you say have your blog posts been in advancing your career goals? Broken out by assessment of law school
- Please list a few of your favorite law blogs.
- Table 5.1 How satisfied are you with your firm or other employer's efforts to promote the firm (or other organization) through blog posts?
- Table 5.2 How satisfied are you with your firm or other employer's efforts to promote the firm (or other organization) through blog posts? Broken out by predominant legal field
- Table 5.3 How satisfied are you with your firm or other employer's efforts to promote the firm (or other organization) through blog posts? Broken out by age of respondent
- Table 5.4 How satisfied are you with your firm or other employer's efforts to promote the firm (or other organization) through blog posts? Broken out by gender of respondent
- Table 5.5 How satisfied are you with your firm or other employer's efforts to promote the firm (or other organization) through blog posts? Broken out by size of law firm
- Table 5.6 How satisfied are you with your firm or other employer's efforts to promote the firm (or other organization) through blog posts? Broken out by work title
- Table 5.7 How satisfied are you with your firm or other employer's efforts to promote the firm (or other organization) through blog posts? Broken out by political views
- Table 5.8 How satisfied are you with your firm or other employer's efforts to promote the firm (or other organization) through blog posts? Broken out by assessment of law school
Methodology
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