A lot of these CLEs are really going to be applicable and useful to my small business practice.
Attorney-Client Privilege and the Suicidal Client
An Overview of H-1 Visas
Legal Issues Relating to the Purchase and Sale of Art
Oh well, I guess it won't hurt to broaden my horizons.
One of the first webinars I watched was called Legal Aspects of Blogging presented by Ronald Coleman, an attorney blogger and legal counsel for the Media Bloggers Association (whatever that is).
He spent the first 10 minutes or so explaining what a blog is and explaining how great his blog is and explaining how everyone else's blog pretty much sucks ass. Yuk-- Attitudes like that are the reason I despise most attorneys and refused to go to my 15 year law school reunion last month. I explained to Lorraine that most of those people were all a bunch of arrogant twats back in law school and I can't imagine what supreme douche bags they are after practicing law for 15 years. And don't even get me started on our local bar association meetings.
Back to the webinar: Here is what Mr. Coleman had to say about bloggers (these are direct quotes).
"The vast majority of blogs, blogging and bloggers are of no interest to anyone."
"Most blogs don't deserve to be read. Most people are not good writers and don't necessarily have something to say"
and then he went on to say that most blogs "stink" and most bloggers are "unremarkable" and the only reason that anyone reads a blog is because they have a blog and they are part of a "mutual admiration society." HA! Has he ever been to a bar association meeting???
Typical lawyer. I think his point was that most blogs are not read by very many people. However, he could not resist the urge to inflate his own ego in making the point. He also mentioned (at least three times) that his blog is one of the ABA top 100 blogs. In fact he started the hour long session with that point and ended it with that point.
If I could do it all over, I would be a florist.
