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Trendspotting: Associating Random Things to Lawyering

By Bruce Carton

On the SpamNotes blog, Venkat Balasubramani makes an excellent observation about an "unfortunate" legal blogging trend. In his post this week entitled, "What Tibetan Goatherders Can Teach us About Lawyering," Balasubramani notes that bloggers increasingly "associate two totally random things that have no connection at all, and ask what one can teach the other (or what one can learn from the other)." LBW readers have probably seen recent examples of this trend in your own legal blog watching, and Balasubramani provides links to a handful that he has encountered, as well: Martindale.com: "What the NFL Playoffs Can Teach us About a Lawyer's Social Media Efforts" ABA Journal: "What Susan Boyle Can Teach Trial Lawyers" Larry Bodine: "What Law Firms Can Learn From Airlines" Jay Shepherd "Why Law Firms Should be Treated Like Pizza Joints" Arnie Herz "What President Obama can Teach us About Client Relationships" Balasubramani says that while this tactic may appeal to some, it doesn't work for him at all, and reminds him of a line in one of Justice Scalia's opinions: Applying the 'relate to' provision according to its terms was a project doomed to failure, since, as many a curbstone philosopher has observed, everything is related...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on January 13, 2010 (boomark / email).