CEO of LexBlog Launches New Site: LexConference

Apr 10th, 2009 | By Rex Gradeless | Category: Featured, Lead Article, Social Networking, Web 2.0

The father of blogging in the legal community and CEO of LexBlog, Kevin O’Keefe (@kevinokeefe), started a new venture called LexConference. LexConference seeks to report on legal conferences across the nation.

Armed with two young journalist (who he better have paid well), Kevin O’Keefe covered his first event with LexConference at the 2009 ABA TECHSHOW. Coverage included a live Twitterfeed, high quality pictures, and video interviews of some of the best and brightest in the legal technology industry.

If you are looking to save money in this troubled economy, just can’t attend, or can not be two places at once then following along with LexConference may be the way to go.

Here’s LexConference in their own words:

About LexConference

LexConference is LexBlog‘s entry into providing live coverage of select law conferences. This coverage is intended to serve the legal profession and spotlight innovation through the sharing of new media and the highlighting of various people, events and exhibitors at legal conferences.

LexBlog CEO Kevin O’Keefe will be sharing his viewpoint from conferences and speaking events, and other LexBlog personnel will periodically be on hand to report via via blogging, Twitter and video updates. We will also enlist other bloggers to have their content syndicated on LexConference.

Content on LexConference will be shared and distributed through the LexBlog network, which includes Real Lawyers Have Blogs, LexMonitor* and various LexBlog-sponsored Twitter feeds.

LexConference is still evolving, and we welcome your feedback.

The first conference to be covered is ABA TechShow 2009, which takes place from April 2-4 in Chicago, Illinois. Upcoming show coverage includes:

Legal IT 3.0 (April 16-17, 2009 — Montreal, Canada)

LegalTech West Coast 2009 (June 2009 — Los Angeles, California)