Terra Extraneus

I noted Jim Calloway’s post of his pick for a weblog of the week and noted his comments about continuity of law bloggers, and their tendency to burn out quickly.

Having experienced this myself at www.terraextraneus.com, my solution was to bring on an “editor” and co-contributor. I am a solo practitioner in an office sharing arrangement with a former partner from our prior lives with another firm. However, I was fortunate enough to run across an old friend that was a former newspaper reporter and newspaper editor in several small newspapers in Oklahoma, Terry Hull. He has worked in a law office as a paralegal for four years, too. I engaged him to act as my editor in chief and co-contributor.

Serious law bloggers will either eventually form virtual law firms in which they blog together, some already have, even if they do not practice together, or they will engage web consultants like Mr. Hull to assist with editorial and content contribution. I have chosen the latter. Busy lawyers, especially trial lawyers like myself, will have no choice. I am often out of state in trial and simply do not have the time when I’m in trial to do anything with it.

Terraextraneus is being redesigned into a pure law blog, a process we hope to have finished shortly. It was a mixed bag before, reflecting varied interests, but I have decided to participate at least in one other blog to address those interests.