Our top LinkedIn posts of 2023
Year in Review
Our top LinkedIn posts of 2023
December 21, 2023, 9:47 am CST
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Social media is an ever-shifting landscape, but one trend that we’ve seen at the ABA Journal over the past few years is the uptick in the use of LinkedIn among lawyers. It may have once been a static place to dump resumé details or humblebrag, but LinkedIn is now hosting in-depth discussions and thriving communities of legal professionals.
In 2021, we hosted Marc W. Halpert on an episode of The Modern Law Library podcast to discuss how LinkedIn could be useful to lawyers. Our follower count has only grown since then and is currently nearing half a million. So as we close out 2023, we thought we’d give readers a look behind the analytics curtain.
There are many ways to gauge engagement on LinkedIn, but we’ve decided to show you the posts this year that received the most clicks, the most comments and the most reactions. Perhaps the most interesting element is how little overlap there is between the three categories.
Most clicks
1. “Law firm boycotts on-campus interviews at Harvard Law because of congressional testimony by its president”
2. An immigration lawyer who uses pink to brand her law firm says she was “elated” and “excited” when Inside Edition approached her for a story that compared her and her employees to the pink-loving Barbie featured in the new movie released July 21.
3. A New York appeals court has denied bar admission to a 2000 law graduate who practiced law for nearly 10 years without a license, rising to law firm partnership.
4. “Meet Peter Park, possibly youngest person to pass California bar”
5. “Your Voice: The curious case of why lawyers are not called ‘doctor’”
Most comments
1. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been hobnobbing with billionaire Republican megadonor Harlan Crow, who has showered Thomas and his wife with gifts of luxury travel for more than two decades.
2. Twenty-five out of 94 federal district courts have never had a judge of color, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis.
3. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has attended at least two donor events orchestrated by the Koch network and has developed a bond with the conservative Koch brothers during all-male retreats, according to a new report by ProPublica.
4. The trial judge hearing the civil fraud case against former President Donald Trump drew the line Tuesday after learning of a social media post targeting his law clerk that included her photo and her name.
5. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas disclosed four reimbursed trips in 2022 and his 2014 real estate deal with Republican megadonor and billionaire Harlan Crow in a financial disclosure form filed Thursday.
Most reactions
1. The U.S. Postal Service will soon unveil its new stamp honoring the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which celebrates “her groundbreaking contributions to justice, gender equality and the rule of law.”
2. “Meet Lawsuit Barbie: She’s been busy at Barbie’s courthouse”
3. Barbie has been living in the real world for a long time. Because of the doll’s colossal success since its introduction in 1959, countless lawsuits have gone through the courts as the doll’s maker has sought to enforce its rights and protect her image.
4. An immigration lawyer who uses pink to brand her law firm says she was “elated” and “excited” when Inside Edition approached her for a story that compared her and her employees to the pink-loving Barbie featured in the new movie released July 21.
5. Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor died today in Phoenix at 93. The first woman to serve in SCOTUS devoted much of her retirement to campaigning for better civics education for Americans, working as a special advisor to the ABA.
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