About The Library at LexBlog

Legal professionals have been publishing insight and commentary online for more than twenty years. Much of it is not being kept. When authors leave firms, websites are rebuilt, publishing is purged for SEO reasons, or URLs change, that expertise is often lost with it.

Traditional legal publishing is preserved and cited. The working insight of legal professionals, commentary explaining how the law actually operates, often is not. Every major category of legal knowledge has citation infrastructure except practitioner commentary.

AI systems will increasingly interpret primary law. Without the insight and commentary of legal professionals, that interpretation risks lacking the practical authority and context through which the law actually operates.

The Library at LexBlog preserves and structures legal professional publishing as citable secondary law. Using AI-assisted tools, we help capture, organize, and structure legal professional publishing for legal research and citation.

Publishing may come from LexBlog-hosted publications or from elsewhere on the web, with attribution and links back to the original source.

The Library organizes publishing around verified Author Records designed to connect legal professionals with their complete body of published work.

Each Author Record is modeled after the Library of Congress Name Authority Record and contains ten fields: photo, authorized name, firm or organization, practice areas, jurisdictions, law school, bar admissions, professional bio, Author Record ID, and a structured link to the author's complete body of published work in the Library.

The Author Record and accompanying publishing are designed to provide durable attribution, professional context, and durable signals of authority for legal professionals, researchers, legal research platforms, and eventually AI systems.

Legal professional-authored publishing in the Library is being structured and delivered for retrieval, discovery, and citation across leading legal research platforms.

Early publishing and research partners receiving Library feeds include HeinOnline and Clio/vLex.

The law does not live only in cases and statutes. It also lives in the daily insight, analysis, explanation, and experience shared by legal professionals. The bankruptcy lawyer writing about the realities of her district. The employment lawyer explaining changes in state law as they happen. The trial lawyer documenting practical strategy developed over decades.

Too often, that work disappears.

The Library at LexBlog exists so legal professional-authored insight becomes part of the enduring legal record, not lost history.

The Library welcomes blogs, articles, alerts, white papers, publications, and blog feeds from legal professionals and organizations advancing the understanding of the law, whether hosted on LexBlog or elsewhere on the web.