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The 2009 ABA Journal Blawg 100

The 2009 ABA Journal Blawg 100

These are the 100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal.

Welcome to the third annual ABA Journal Blawg 100 - the best legal blogs as selected by the Journal's editors.

Our readers clued us in to a few law blogs we'd never seen before, and you'll find them among the 40 blawgs that are new to our list this year.

For a list of all 100 blawgs, complete with their companion Twitter feeds and extra quick takes, click here.

Readers who registered with ABAJournal.com were able to pick up to 10 favorite blawgs in the 10 categories below.

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140
votes

Bitter Lawyer

Bitter Lawyer is a category killer for legal humor websites, complete with video programming, daily reports from the Bitter Newsroom and frank interviews with lawyers with unusual stories to tell, such as the lawyer-founder of a dating agency for marrieds looking to cheat.

131
votes

That's What She Said

Maybe you think you’re the only one watching The Office and seeing a workplace litigation goldmine. But you’d be wrong. A Ford & Harrison employment lawyer recaps every episode, attaches a potential litigation value to it and explains his or her reasoning.

67
votes

The Namby Pamby, Attorney-at-Law

The Namby Pamby, Attorney-at-Law In general, Namby’s personal injury clients are the star of this blog, leaving him dumbfounded, day after day, with their insistent misunderstanding of what the law can do for them. Thankfully, he recounts everything in Q & A format for us.

64
votes

Corporette

Corporette is an anonymous BigLaw associate in Manhattan blogging about work-oriented fashion for women. She features items every weekday and takes questions from readers with urgent style and etiquette issues.

44
votes

Legal Juice

Legal Juice’s John Mesirow puts up scores of tort-related news-of-the-weird posts that you won’t find on your Web browser home page. He seems to hit smaller news markets and locate complaints and unusual laws that other blawggers don’t find.

34
votes

BabyBarista

BabyBarista offers an entertaining fictional account of a junior barrister published by the Times Online. The blog’s author, Tim Kevan, described “BabyBarista” to the U.K. news site This Is North Devon as “a sneaky character who gets up to all sorts of shenanigans in order to succeed. You wouldn’t like his behavior at all, were it not for the fact that BabyBarista’s opponents are even worse.”

19
votes

Litination

Litination tries to punk its readers at every turn; some of the humorous legal news on it is real, some fake. Other posts feature photos of unnamed associates with funny captions attached, or photos of unnamed partners next to their look-alikes.