"Law blogs represent an essential part of secondary law, capturing commentary and analysis that lawyers, academics and the public rely upon," O'Keefe said. "When Typepad announced its shutdown, we knew the risk of losing decades of this legal insight and commentary from practitioners, academics and other legal professionals was real - and unacceptable. Preserving it wasn't just a service to authors, it was a service to the law itself."
"This rescue effort reflects the dedication and talent of my teammates backed by the strength of our technology platform. In this project alone we preserved roughly 300,000 posts - pushing the LexBlog network past one million preserved legal blog posts and articles in total - and gave new homes to leading voices in the profession."
Typepad announced a shutdown effective Sept. 30, 2025, threatening to erase decades of legal blog posts. LexBlog mounted an emergency rescue operation that preserved 579,162 legal blog posts and migrated more than 150 Typepad-hosted sites. The rescue pushed LexBlog's library past one million preserved posts. The effort saved 224,000 posts from 51 blogs that were part of the Law Professor Blog Network and relocated 16 of those blogs. The preservation retained practitioner insights, academic analysis, and professional commentary that function as secondary legal sources relied upon by lawyers and researchers. LexBlog credited its team and technology platform for enabling the project.
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