The Texas Lawbook Passes 7,000 Subscribers

© 2015 The Texas Lawbook.By Brooks Igo   (July 17) – In October 2011, The Texas Lawbook posted its first two articles. One was a profile of David Woodcock, who had just been sworn in as the new director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Fort Worth Regional Office. The second was an article on Fulbright & Jaworski’s Litigation Trends Survey.   The publication initially had no subscribers, no advertisers, no Twitter followers, no other content.   Forty-one months later, The Texas Lawbook has reached a major milestone. We now have more than 7,000 lawyers who are paid subscribers – about 1,700 of them are corporate in-house counsel. These are lawyers who practice business law (litigation, regulatory and transactional) in Texas.   “People thought I was seriously crazy to leave the comforts of a large law firm with the nice salary, cushy benefits and that corporate American Express card to start an online newspaper with no revenues and no readers,” said founder and senior writer Mark Curriden. “The truth is, we were not positive that the ‘build it and they will come’ approach would work.”   For the first three months of operation, articles on The Texas Lawbook website were free to read.…