{"id":341,"date":"2007-09-10T20:51:52","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T01:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/10\/excellent-new-legal-guide-for-blogging\/"},"modified":"2007-09-10T20:51:52","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T01:51:52","slug":"excellent-new-legal-guide-for-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/10\/excellent-new-legal-guide-for-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent New Legal Guide for Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Carroll, the author of the bestseller <em>Dancing with Lawyers,<\/em> has just released a new study &#8211;<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law-of-the-blog.com\/\">THE LAW OF THE BLOG<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law-of-the-blog.com\/\">.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Carroll\u00a0 offers clear, direct advice on how not to get your tail sued while blogging or otherwise hell-raising online.\u00a0 (There was a reason why the<em> New York Times<\/em>, reviewing his last book, declared that Carroll &#8220;probably knows as much as anybody about lawyers.&#8221;)\u00a0 He also brings a fine sense of humor to a subject that is usually more arid than the Sahara.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After reading his analysis, I will\u00a0never call anyone &#8220;poor as a church mouse&#8221; again. (Assuming I&#8217;m not sampling hops while blogging).<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, as far as I can tell, applying the word &#8220;weasel&#8221; remains almost libel-proof.<\/p>\n<p>He is charging $9.95 for his study\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0less than the price of being verbally bitch-slapped by some lawyer&#8217;s receptionist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Carroll, the author of the bestseller Dancing with Lawyers, has just released a new study &#8211; THE LAW OF THE BLOG.\u00a0\u00a0 Carroll\u00a0 offers clear, direct advice on how not to get your tail sued while blogging or otherwise hell-raising online.\u00a0 (There was a reason why the New York Times, reviewing his last book, declared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bovard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Excellent New Legal Guide for Blogging - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/10\/excellent-new-legal-guide-for-blogging\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Excellent New Legal Guide for Blogging - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nicholas Carroll, the author of the bestseller Dancing with Lawyers, has just released a new study &#8211; 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