Associate's Mind

  Sometimes you just need to take a break. Unplug, desync, disconnect as I’ve said in the past. Blogging well takes effort. Sure you can crank out insipid, trite observations about marketing, technology, and other vaguely related legal topics like clockwork. But producing something that is self-satisfying and genuine takes time. Sometimes you have the [...]

Associate’s Mind was included in the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100 today, a listing of the top 100 legal blogs of the year. Thanks to everyone who nominated the blog for inclusion.  It’s good company to be keep, with many great legal bloggers in there. Thanks to everyone else who continues to come back everyday and [...]

Despite having just made the point that links and numbers don’t matter in the last post, I thought I would offer this information for legal bloggers curious about how to drive traffic. Here are the top ten referring domains (people clicked a link there to get here) for the month of April: Reddit 5,743 Abovethelaw.com 3,004 Twitter [...]

FYI – In case you were unaware, large swaths of Alabama were just decimated by tornadoes. See: I live in Birmingham and our home managed to remain relatively unscathed, but the surrounding neighborhood is devastated. The Atlantic has a photo essay up showing more of the damage. #33 is about .5 kilometers from my home. Glad to have [...]

Just a head’s up, I’ll be hosting the latest round of Blawg Review this upcoming Monday. For the unaware: Blawg Review is the blog carnival for everyone interested in law. A peer-reviewed blog carnival, the host of each Blawg Review decides which of the submissions and recommended posts are suitable for inclusion in the presentation. And the host is encouraged to [...]

First off, apparently if you are a regular (read: multiple times a week) blogger and you stop for two months most people apparently assume you are dead! I’ve been back online for a few days now and then general consensus is “You’re alive?!” Can’t a guy take a break to pass the Bar? My final [...]

Bit of navel gazing here, back to our regularly scheduled posting shortly. Today marks 3 months of An Associate’s Mind! A few things all happened at the same time this week so I thought I’d highlight them: This is the 100th post. All-time unique Pageviews passed the 10,000 barrier this week. Associate’s Mind broke into the Top [...]

Just a quick note that my recent post, “The Top Five Reasons Fail,” was one of the featured stories on this week’s edition of Blawgworld. Blawgworld is a weekly round-up of notable stories from the legal blogging sphere. Technolawyer also runs a number of other newsletters in which they seek to provide “the most comprehensive [...]