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To close out our series of interviews from the Practising Law Institute's seminar on social media, we have an excellent recap from Kevin O'Keefe and Robert Ambrogi, each of whom chaired multiple panels during the event.

O'Keefe is, of course, CEO at LexBlog while Ambrogi is a lawyer and legal media consultant, also authoring the excellent LawSites blog "tracking new and intriguing websites for the legal profession."

In our recap, Ambrogi and O'Keefe comment on the free-flowing discussion that took place throughout the day, PLI's approach to focusing on opportunities instead of pitfalls and also what advice they would give to attorneys looking to get started with social media.

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While a majority of the Practising Law Institute's seminar on social media honed in on the technology's impact on client development for lawyers and law firms, we had one session take a step away from that—and it may have been the best of the day. Legal blogging expert Bob Ambrogi was tabbed to lead the session titled "Social Media’s Impact on the Advancement of Law & Publishing" but instead Ed Walters, CEO of Fastcase, took the reins and fueled much of the discussion.

During the session, topics mentioned include how now is a renaissance era for big data, the relationship between primary law and secondary law and the "unbundling" of legal publishing. He discusses those subjects in our interview below.

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Within every group of friends, it seems as though there's one individual who, wherever you go, will always know someone. It wouldn't surprise me if Kelly Hoey were one of those people. At the the Practising Law Institute's seminar on social media, it seemed as though the former President of 85 Broads, LLC knew everyone there.

In my short interview with the strategic networking expert, we discuss how she uses social media to manage and foster relationships, what advice she'd give to professionals looking to get started and the subject of how to decide which social media outlets to pursue.

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As we said when we first introduced the Practising Law Institute's seminar as social media, the event presented a rare and unique collection of talent. We have yet another interview from one of those talented individuals: Broc Romanek, Editor of TheCorporateCounsel.Net.

TheCorporateCounsel.Net is one of the legal blogosphere's most authoritative publications on corporate and securities law. Also, it's more than just one blog as Romanek actually manages five different blogs on the site.

In our interview, we discuss including personal details on a legal blog, the relationships he's built through social media, his unique approach to blog comments and how he manages time effectively. 

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As we continue our series of interviews from the Practising Law Institue seminar on social media for lawyers and law firms, it only makes sense that we actually speak with someone from PLI. Today, we have my interview with Guy Alvarez, the Director of Research & Development at the Practising Law Institute.

In the brief interview, we discuss PLI's own use of social media, how they curate and aggregate different information, his views on social media's role in 'secondary law' and the increase in interest in learning social media from PLI's faculty.

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For Peter Mahler and his New York Business Divorce blog, things really couldn't have gone any better. Not only has he seen the publication enhance his reputation as a business dissolution expert, but it's also responsible for a significant amount of work.

In our interview from the Practising Law Institute seminar on social media for lawyers, the Farrell Fritz attorney and I discuss his approach to blogging and how he finds time to post.

Also, we got a chance to speak with Lorraine Sullivan, the Director of Marketing at Farrell Fritz. She discusses how the firm got blogging, the impact of Mahler's success internally and what advice she'd give to other firms looking to utilize social media.

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Today, our series of interviews from the Practising Law Institute seminar on social media best practices for lawyers and law firms features R. David Donoghue. A partner at Holland & Knight, Donoghue authors the authoritative Chicago IP Litigation Blog.

Donoghue's blog, which he started way back in 2006, is a major source of work for the young attorney. Not only does the publication drive his reputation as a skilled lawyer—he was featured in Chicago Lawyer's 40 Under Forty list for Illinois attorneys—but is also a reputed source of news as Donoghue recently received the Chicago Bar Association's Herman Kogan Media Award for work on his publication.

In this interview, we discuss how he finds time to post, the relationships he's developed through his blog and the concern many attorneys have about giving too much information away for free.

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We continue our video interview series from the Practising Law Institute's seminar on how lawyers can use social media for professional and client development with Nithya Das, an Associate at Goodwin Procter. Das serves as an author on the firm's Founder's Workbench site, working on the Founder's Toolbox blog and Twitter feed.

During our short interview, we discuss some of the points she touched on during her session—her own social media monitoring practices, the Founder Fridays interviews on the blog and, of course, conveying personality through social media.

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Last week, LexBlog had the privilege of participating in the Practising Law Institute's seminar on how lawyers can use social media for professional and client development. As the post linked to there details, the faculty we were able to have on hand presented a unique and extremely knowledgeable collection of talent.

Because this seminar presented such a rare opportunity to gather the viewpoints of experienced professionals in the social media space, we decided to conduct a series of short interviews with the event's panelists. Over the next week-plus, you can find each of the interviews here on LexConference

To get things started though, you can take a look at the first interview here. We begin the series like we began the seminar, with Steve Rubel. A new media pioneer and blogging rockstar, Rubel currently serves as EVP/Global Strategy and Insights at Edelman, the world's largest independent public relations firm.

During his session on "Cultivating Thought Leadership in the Digital Age" he discussed the topic of "over-friending", the concept of tradigital and the need for companies and brands to identify thought-leaders while also acting as publishers themselves. We discuss those subjects below.