Terra Extraneus

If the word purist has any meaning, then the Oklahoma law blog of choice is that of Jim Calloway, more formally known as Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips. While not exclusively addressing Oklahoma legal issues, or even legal issues, per se, Calloway’s blog is a helpful buffet of technical and procedural law practice guidelines. Non-lawyers, too, can benefit from Calloway’s constant work in progress: application of technology to practical business problems. Indeed, his blog site is like an FAQ for the web, as well as the practice of law and the web, and maybe business and the web.

Calloway knows his stuff. He is director of the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Management Assistance Program, and manages several OBA projects, including the OBA-NET, the bar’s official online community, and the OBA Solo and Small Firm Conference.

Calloway’s recent article, titled in part “Web 2.0″ was not only published in hard copy but was posted on the Oklahoma Bar Association website. Jim suggested it might actually be more valuable on the website than in hard copy, because of the imbedded links, and I agree. Jim’s blogsite also is a sort of aggregator in which Calloway identifies web sources and sites that are of value to lawyers, as well as computer problem solvers.

Jim also serves to a great extent as the eyes and ears of Oklahoma lawyers regarding Internet advances in technology, customs and procedures. While Oklahoma lawyers, and this is not state specific, tend to rely on various types of vendors, as a group we would do better to compare what we are told to Jim’s reviews before we commit.

As a result, Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips blog is the best model I have seen of the value and implementation of micropublishing niche technology and professional practice subject matter. That’s why it is the first blog I’m adding to Terra Extraneus’ Law Blogs blogroll.

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This is one in a series of posts by Rod Heggy, as he surveys Oklahoma-related law blogs. See this other post in the series: “A Blog To Disagree With.”