This may be superfluous. Maybe blogs might not need a stated intent circumscribing the conversation. Nevertheless, I started mulling over the possibilities for the NextLex blog space.

I’m inundated with blog fodder, confronted more and more by evidence of a paradigm shift in the practice of law. Topics that, while not always directly related to NextLex proper, could be seen as prerequisites for our very existence. And, like everyone, I’ve an opinion, perhaps even an agenda. But discussing such topics seemed somehow incongruent with our goals. On the other hand, merely providing a “how-to” guide for NextLex, expanding on our grand vision and the multitude of features we hope to bring to the table, wasn’t going to cut it.

Then I realized, to hold back wouldn’t be in the spirit of NextLex. We’re building a community, and communities aren’t built on feature sets that grease the wheels of collaboration. Grease is good, but passion is paramount. So, while we’ll continue to roll out updates and post on what we hope to build, we’re also taking aim at trends in the practice of law, analyzing the micro and macro, exposing the luddites, becoming the revolution that’s already here. We may at times incite controversy, but that’s part of the plan. Without debate, without argument, there’s no challenge and no movement forward, no innovation. And those are certainly goals within the purview of NextLex.