Toronto Law Blogger Meetup - December 4, 2012

Hello once again, Toronto law bloggers, tweeters, and legal scribblers.

As previously announced on Twitter, the next Toronto Law Blogger Meetup will be tomorrow, Tuesday December 4, 2012, 6:30 p.m. at P.J. O'Brien's Irish Pub, 39 Colborne Street, Toronto.

We’re thrilled to be joined by for the evening by our old friend and special guest, Kevin O'Keefe, founder of LexBlog,who will be in Toronto next week. Kevin is a reformed lawyer who has become one of the world’s leading authorities on the role of blogs and social media in the legal profession. We last met up with Kevin for a Beer for Bloggers event in November 2010, and expect to have another lively discussion with him on the current and future states of the legal blawgosphere and twitterverse.

It’s a bit of an impromptu meetup to mark Kevin’s visit to Toronto. Sorry for the short notice, but we hope you will be able to join us.

Toronto Law Blogger Meetups happen every month or two, and are open to all in the legal profession and related support industries.  To be added to our event email list, tweet me.

We'll look forward to seeing you on Tuesday. 

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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OMG! Law Talk - In Conversation with Kevin O'Keefe

In the return of OMG! Law Talk, Omar Ha-Redeye, Michael Carabash and I have the pleasure of an extended conversation with Kevin O'Keefe, founder of Lex Blog and of the world's leading authorities (or as Omar put it, The Guru) on social media and the legal profession.

In Part I, Kevin discusses how his own law practice led him to his current career as a global leader in online marketing and social media for legal professionals. His online philosophy is remarkably straightforward and direct. For Kevin, the internet is not about broadcasting and content - it's about engaging people and building relationships:

In Part II, Kevin discusses his thoughts on what is required for lawyers to succeed online, the growing role of mobile apps, video and the iPad, and the future of social media for the legal professional:

Kevin's ongoing commentaries on legal blogging and social media can be also found at his personal blog, Real Lawyers Have Blogs.

Many thanks to Kevin O'Keefe for taking the time to meet with Michael, Omar and I after his October 22, 2010 Toronto Beer for Bloggers event. We'll very much look forward to another opportunity to converse, listen and learn in the not-too-distant future.

Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Many Thanks to Kevin O'Keefe

...for hosting one of his fabled Beer for Bloggers events last night at downtown Toronto's P.J. O'Brien's Irish Pub.

It was a pleasure to meet LexBlog's Kevin O'Keefe, one of North America's foremost legal marketing gurus, along with a number of Toronto's leading law bloggers and legal marketing professionals, for what proved to be a very informative evening - and an awful lot of fun.

(From Left) Michael Carabash, Dynamic Lawyers; Chris Jaglowitz, Gardiner Miller Arnold; Megan Connolly, Connolly Law; Andrea Krywonis, Gardiner Miller Arnold; Kevin O'Keefe, Lexblog; Omar Ha-Redeye; Lorraine Fleck,Hoffer Adler LLP; Mark C Robbins, Lawyer Locate; Garry J. Wise, Wise Law Office

We'll have a bit of video featuring Kevin's views in the next day or so, so stay tuned (and be warned in advance of the imminent return of OMG! Law Talk).

(Photo credit - Phil Brown)

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- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net

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