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Method of searching for and retrieving law blog posts needs to change

By Kevin OKeefe

That from Denver University Law Professor Jay Brown writing at The Race to the Bottom about the increasing number of law blog citations in federal and state court opinions. ...[B]log posts are notoriously difficult to find.  A good number of the current set of citations probably occur because particular judges read particular blogs and occasionally cite them.  The number will increase exponentially, however, when judges who do not read the blogs regularly can nonetheless find posts that support statements or propositions that they want to make in an opinion.  For this to occur, there will need to be significant changes in the method of searching for and retrieving law blog posts.  We will talk about that in a later post. Don't expect LexisNexis or Thomson/West/FindLaw to bring us the needed technology...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on February 24, 2008 (boomark / email).