FindLaw’s Modern Practice – Feature
as blogging becomes even more popular, more and more questions will arise. For example, can blogs be cited, like extemporaneous notes, as evidence of one’s state of mind or knowledge on a particular date? And in the patent law context, could blogging about a particular technology be construed as evidence of knowledge of prior art? In the small law firm context, blogging is an especially useful publicity tool. All the firm’s lawyers can post to the firm’s blog and build it up to be a real destination for readers. But what if the firm breaks up? Who owns the blog name? How about the archives? Was it all work-made-for-hire to the firm?
Same questions come up in any professional role: medicine, engineering, you name it.
This is actually something better suited to knowledge logging, as an internal unstructured documentation method.