About Us
Why LexBlog?
LexBlog seeks to build the world’s largest and most comprehensive legal news and information network by drawing on the wealth of content created by legal bloggers worldwide.
Our History
In 2004, a trial lawyer of 16 years turned tech entrepreneur, Kevin O’Keefe, voiced the idea that lawyers should have blogs.
He believed that by leveraging this new technology, lawyers could build a name for themselves in a way that had never existed previously. Inspired by this vision, O’Keefe started LexBlog out of his garage by building blogs for lawyers.
As LexBlog grew from a small startup to a reputable brand in the legal industry, the company developed SaaS technology to power blogs that fulfilled their client’s needs, including RSS, SEO, and social media tools.
But something beyond technology solidified LexBlog’s reputation as a worldwide publishing network – the company’s unwavering focus on cultivating an empowering environment that highlights the hard work of the bright minds within the legal industry.
Today, LexBlog has over 25,000 bloggers within its network, including over half of the nearly 1,000 blogs from the United States’ top 200 law firms. But more importantly, LexBlog devotes itself to empowering a global network built around the company’s mission to provide real-time news and insights powered by the legal community.
With their aggregation and syndication of news and commentary from thousands of legal thinkers, LexBlog is more than a publishing solution for lawyers, it is a launching pad for a community that is passionate about exchanging ideas, sharing opportunities, and making the law more accessible to all.
Our Team
Brian BiddleCreative Directorbrianbiddle@lexblog.com
For the past 18 years, Brian has been designing and creating legal blogs with LexBlog. If a legal blog has the LexBlog logo, chances are… For the past 18 years, Brian has been designing and creating legal blogs with LexBlog. If a legal blog has the LexBlog logo, chances are this design came from Brian. During his time with LexBlog, Brian has served as lead designer and the art director for LexBlog. In addition, he works directly with the product team to provide design and UX/UI guidance for the tools that power the world’s largest legal network. | Jovaughn BrownCustomer Success Technicianjovaughn@lexblog.com
Jovaughn works for the LexBlog Support team assisting clients in managing their blogs and websites, as well as supporting internal departments with platform maintenance and… Jovaughn works for the LexBlog Support team assisting clients in managing their blogs and websites, as well as supporting internal departments with platform maintenance and publishing. He has 10 years of experience in technical support and IT environments. As a blogger himself, he also manages multiple blog publications, including his personal blog, Digital Zen, which sees thousands of unique visitors per month. Jovaughn is a “digital nomad” traveling the world and documenting it all on his personal blog. | Angelo CarosioSenior Developerangelo@lexblog.com
Angelo has been an integral part of LexBlog for more than a decade, starting on the Success team and then moving into a developer role. Angelo has been an integral part of LexBlog for more than a decade, starting on the Success team and then moving into a developer role. These days, he mostly spends his time working on the back-end of the LexBlog platform fixing bugs and working on new features for our customers. |
Dorothy ColettaChief Operating Officerdorothy@lexblog.com
With a passion for service and engagement, Dorothy has over 30 years of experience with building relationships and strengthening teams. in both the non-profit and… With a passion for service and engagement, Dorothy has over 30 years of experience with building relationships and strengthening teams. in both the non-profit and for-profit arenas. As Director of Administration, she oversees various functional areas including human resources and finance. | Scott FennellDirector of Technologyscott@lexblog.com
Scott is a WordPress theme and plugin developer with a penchant for connecting the dots between services like MailChimp, Cloudflare, and GoDaddy. He has been… Scott is a WordPress theme and plugin developer with a penchant for connecting the dots between services like MailChimp, Cloudflare, and GoDaddy. He has been published in A List Apart and CSS-Tricks. | Russell KottDirector of Customer Successrkott@lexblog.com
Russell provides years of experience to the Technical Support Success Team to assure quality and efficient customer service. While growing within his role as a… Russell provides years of experience to the Technical Support Success Team to assure quality and efficient customer service. While growing within his role as a technical support specialist, he utilizes his time to focus energy in improving skills towards development and design to improve his role within the company and his future career. |
Dan MintzSales and Business Development Executivedan@lexblog.com
Dan has spent the last seven years as a Sales & Business Development professional, helping to grow small to mid-sized SaaS businesses, with a focus… Dan has spent the last seven years as a Sales & Business Development professional, helping to grow small to mid-sized SaaS businesses, with a focus in the legal market. He’s been involved with a number of software firms, focusing on the problems that can be solved and the relationships that can be developed as opposed to solely leading with the tech. When not in the office, Dan either finds himself on the ski slopes, or on the lake water skiing and wakesurfing during the warmer months. | Claire NelsonMarketing ManagerClaire@LexBlog.com
As a solution-driven creative, Claire is passionate about the powerful combination of marketing and design. With a background in liberal arts and experience in various… As a solution-driven creative, Claire is passionate about the powerful combination of marketing and design. With a background in liberal arts and experience in various creative marketing roles, she has honed her skills in verbal and written communication, project management, multitasking, collaboration, and a love for learning. You can count on Claire to be an expert in Adobe software, photography, videography, and turning data into strategic solutions that deliver results. | Conner O'KeefeSales & Marketing Ops Managerconner@lexblog.com
Conner works with lawyers, law firms, and legal marketers to assist in strategic business development. He enjoys running around Wallingford, watching Gonzaga basketball, and attending… Conner works with lawyers, law firms, and legal marketers to assist in strategic business development. He enjoys running around Wallingford, watching Gonzaga basketball, and attending Seattle Mariners games. |
Kevin O'KeefeCEO & Founderkevin@lexblog.com
I am a trial lawyer, turned legal tech entrepreneur, now leading the largest community of legal publishers in the world at LexBlog, Inc. I am… I am a trial lawyer, turned legal tech entrepreneur, now leading the largest community of legal publishers in the world at LexBlog, Inc. I am a lawyer of 39 years. Wanting to be a lawyer since I was a kid, I have loved almost every minute of it. I practiced as a trial lawyer in rural Wisconsin for 17 years, representing plaintiffs, whether they were injury victims and their family members or small businesses. In the mid-nineties, I discovered the Internet in the form of AOL. I began helping people by answering questions on AOL message boards and leading AOL’s legal community. I later started my own listservs and message boards to help people on personal injury, medical malpractice, workers compensation and plaintiff’s employment law matters. Though we were green to technology and the Internet, USA Today said if my firm “didn’t stop what we were doing, we would give lawyers a good name.” In 1999, I closed my law firm and we moved, as a family of seven, to Seattle to start my first company. Prairielaw.com was a virtual law community of people helping people, a sort of AOL on the law, featuring message boards, articles, chats, listervs and ask-a-lawyer. Prairielaw.com was sold to LexisNexis, where it was incorporated into Martindale-Hubbell’s lawyers.com. After a stint as VP of Business Development at LexisNexis, I founded LexBlog out of my garage in 2004 (no affiliation with LexisNexis). Knowing lawyers get their best work from relationships and a strong word of mouth reputation, and not promoting themselves, I saw blogging as a perfect way for lawyers to build relationships and a reputation. When I could not find someone to help me with my own blog, I started a company to provide what I needed. Strategy, professional design, platform, coaching, SEO, marketing and free ongoing support. As a result of the outstanding work of my team of twenty and my blogging, the LexBlog community has grown to a community of over 30,000 legal professionals, world-wide. Publishing my blog, Real Lawyers, now in its 18th year, I share information, news, and commentary to help legal professionals looking to network online, whether it be via blogging or other social media. Blogging also enables me to think through my ideas – out loud and in an engaging fashion. In addition to my blog, I liberally share others’ insight on Twitter. Feel free to engage me there as well on LinkedIn and Facebook. | Colin O'KeefeDirector of Productcolin@lexblog.com
As Publisher at LexBlog, Colin leads the Publishing team and guides LexBlog clients and community members on blogging digital publishing strategy. A professionally-trained journalist, he’s… As Publisher at LexBlog, Colin leads the Publishing team and guides LexBlog clients and community members on blogging digital publishing strategy. A professionally-trained journalist, he’s applied the trade by helping keep LexBlog at the forefront of blogging and digital media trends for more than a decade—split up by a four-year stint helping lead the Seattle Mariners’ digital marketing efforts. He’s a fan of those M’s, the Green Bay Packers, Seattle craft beer, pinball, jogging and ebikes. | Kira WilsonSenior Customer Success Techniciankwilson@lexblog.com
Kira has been a member of the Success team at LexBlog since 2017. With a passion for customer support, she enjoys sharing tips with customers… Kira has been a member of the Success team at LexBlog since 2017. With a passion for customer support, she enjoys sharing tips with customers about our software, developing support messaging, and working to improve the overall user experience on the LexBlog Platform. She also likes bringing her dog Peanut to the Seattle office at WeWork! |
LexBlog's Mission, Vision & Core Values
Our Mission
The mission of LexBlog, Inc. is to connect lawyers to people, for good.
Our Vision
Become world’s largest legal publisher
Value: Care
We care for others on our team and for those we are honored to serve.
Value: Competition
We achieve a level of professional excellence in all we do, individually and as an organization.
Value: Ownership
We define the work required to be done in our role and own it going forward.
Value: Engagement
We engage others online and offline to learn, build trust, build relationships.
Value: Fun
Care, competition, professional excellence and fun are not mutually exclusive – they run hand in hand.
Value: Fitness
Physical and mental fitness enable us to live these values and achieve our personal & professional goals.
Value: We dream big dreams
No one will tell us it’s impossible.
At LexBlog, we believe in “110% service”, which means that at every stage we work with you, we give you more than you expect and more than you pay for.
We back this up with our guarantee, unprecedented in the industry. If you are dissatisfied with our service or your business development success from blogging after one year, we will return any portion of the fees paid that you feel is fair.