Top Tweets From The Attorney@Blog Conference
Highlights from live commentary on the ATL blogger conference
As you’ve likely heard, last Friday ATL hosted its inaugural Attorney@Blog conference at the Yale Club in New York. The conference comprised a series of lively, informative, and occasionally profane panel discussions on topics near to our heart: free speech, hate speech, the state of legal journalism, and technical trends. By all accounts, a good time was had by both the panelists and attendees, and we can’t wait to do it all over again next year.
As befitting a social media-themed conference, the day was heavily tweeted, with our hashtag (#AttyAtBlog) managing to trend for hours. Read on for a round-up of the day’s top tweets.
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Staci Zaretsky moderated a panel, The Trolls: Confronting (or Ignoring) Racism and Sexism, which looked at various strategies for dealing with hateful speech online. At one point the panelists read aloud actual ad hominem attacks upon themselves. It was pretty awkward actually, as William Peacock of FindLaw noted:
This #AttyAtBlog troll panel is like one if those Jimmy Kimmel videos where celebs read angry tweets about themselves, except more sad.
— William Peacock, esq (@PeacockEsq) March 14, 2014
Panelist Jessie Kornberg of Ms. JD has an explanation as to why offensive speech thrives online:
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Jessie Kornberg: "It begins and ends with anonymity." #AttyAtBlog
— Leora Kaplan (@LeoraKaplan) March 14, 2014
The People’s Therapist manages to spin the vitriol into a backhanded compliment:
"if you don't want nasty comments, write a really boring blog." –@wmeyerhofer #attyatblog
— LII @ Cornell Law (@LIICornell) March 14, 2014
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Marc Randazza, in the discussion on free speech issues, noted a “batsh**t crazy” exception to defamation law — which prompted this response from @beezuskiddo:
The problem with the batshit crazy exception is that not everyone is immune to the harm a crazy person can do in the internet #attyatblog
— beezuskiddo (@beezuskiddo) March 14, 2014
Joe Patrice’s session, on technical trends and best practices, was chockful of fun facts:
@JosephPatrice is explaining what a gif is. This is why lawyers fail. -EM #attyatblog
— Above the Law (@atlblog) March 14, 2014
Joe also had to engage in some remedial education:
"When FB increased image size, publishes saw 12% jump in traffic." Dear God people are stupid. -EM #attyatblog
— Above the Law (@atlblog) March 14, 2014
Karen Sloan of the National Law Journal and our own Elie presented a study in journalistic contrasts. Karen thinks Elie would do well to, you know, actually speak with the people he’s writing about:
Oooh, @KarenSloanNLJ lays the smack down on @ElieNYC: if you did more reporting, you might be less mean. –DL #attyatblog #awkward
— Above the Law (@atlblog) March 14, 2014
But Elie Mystal has his reasons for his approach:
"I don't like to name the lobsters." — @atlblog's @ElieNYC on the difference between his reporting and @KarenSloanNLJ's. #AttyAtBlog #hbc2
— Leora Kaplan (@LeoraKaplan) March 14, 2014
And he certainly has no trouble sleeping at night:
HA: says @ElieNYC, if I can save one person from going to #lawschool, I've justified my existence. –DL #attyatblog
— Above the Law (@atlblog) March 14, 2014
Thanks once again to our panelists, our guests, our sponsors, and to everyone who tweeted about the conference. The day wouldn’t have been such a huge success without you!
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