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Every Law School Needs An Official Blog

searchme-results.jpgSo, I’ve been toying around with SearchMe today. It’s a cool visual search engine (click on the screenshot to the right to see it). Still in beta form, but it’s open registration to try it out. I think it’s pretty cool. The whole premise is that you see the pages that come back in a search. They’re categorized and easy to scroll through. You can choose to see text results as well.

My search for “law school blog” yielded some interesting results. It also brought me back to a question I’ve had for a while but haven’t yet asked here: Can someone please point me to a good law school blog written by a member of the school’s administration or that is otherwise quasi-official? Our school has two that I know of (Admissions and Financial Aid).

(Incidentally, kudos to Catholic Law on the site redesign. I’m sure you’ve been working on it for a while. Well done!)

The trouble is there aren’t many. Those that exist seem to be, like Catholic’s or this one, updated sparingly and with information that is not totally useful or just downright uninteresting. Continue reading ‘Every Law School Needs An Official Blog’

Law Firm Harassment Flash Card

Ford and Harrison Sexual Harassment Ad

Copyranter points us to this priceless ad on sexual harrassment that ran in the Chicago area. It’s the case study method of print advertising which can sometimes be quite effective.

This ad is brilliant! Sort of. Okay not really. Kind of disturbing actually and far from effective. Look at the guy in image #2 looking at the alleged harasser over his glasses!! Hilarious.

(And more on law firm marketing and advertising soon. Did you know local Bar Associations often screen and reject law firms’ ads?)