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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.
Click here for FAQ about the Blawg 100 and voting.
Voting is now closed.
388
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Technolawyer Blog*
TechnoLawyer Blog covers the latest technology for law practice management and highlights the best of the legal blogosphere. Many posts are merely teasers for content that is only available on TechnoLawyer's eight free electronic newsletters, but posts pulled from those electronic publications are thorough and solid.
*The TechnoLawyer Blog drew the most votes in this category only after it ran a sweepstakes campaign offering readers who claimed to have voted for it the opportunity to win one of two $500 first prizes and five $100 second prizes. Had the sweepstakes offer not been made, the likely winner would have been E-Lessons Learned.
233
votes
E-Lessons Learned
e-Lessons Learned is primarily a student-run e-discovery and legal technology blog, where items are posted in a practical, easy-to-scan case digest format. Each post contains a summary of the “e-lesson learned” so readers can decide whether to keep on reading. We like that.
125
votes
3 Geeks and a Law Blog
“It is a vital resource of ‘law geek’-related news, and I rely on it,” Jan Rivers, competitive intelligence liaison at Dorsey & Whitney in Minneapolis, wrote us. Last fall, the geeks started their Thursday Elephant Posts, which pose a question (What will your firm stop buying in five years?) and post answers from librarians, marketers and other legal practitioners.
68
votes
Above and Beyond KM
Blogger V. Mary Abraham is a lawyer focused on knowledge management at Debevoise & Plimpton’s New York City office. Most posts focus not on incremental news developments in her discipline, but rather its “nontech challenges” and big-picture concerns: strategy, productivity, and encouraging strong-willed attorneys to share information systematically.
66
votes
22 Tweets
22 Tweets houses Lance Godard’s live, often insightful “Twitterviews,” essentially mini-profiles of lawyers who tweet. In 22 tweets, lawyers reveal professional challenges, marketing tips and how to best interact with clients.
51
votes
DennisKennedy.com
This is where St. Louis lawyer Dennis Kennedy blogs his ABA Journal legal tech columns, aggregates tweets from his Twitter microblog, and prefaces new episodes of The Kennedy-Mighell Report, the podcast he co-hosts with Inter Alia’s Tom Mighell at Legal Talk Network on alternate Wednesdays.
48
votes
iPhone J.D.
New Orleans lawyer Jeff Richardson learned how to program on an Apple II in sixth grade and became a Mac fan for life. Richardson stays up-to-the-minute on the most recent operating system updates and counts the ways readers will love them; he also notes the latest apps relevant to lawyers, and these posts—complete with screen shots—walk readers through how to use them.
39
votes
Robert Ambrogi's LawSites
LawSites—which tracks new websites and blogs of interest to lawyers—has been online for more than nine years. And its author, Rockport, Mass., lawyer Robert Ambrogi, is definitely a source of institutional memory when it comes to the legal profession’s presence on the Web. If lawyers or law students have launched something new online, Ambrogi is bound to have blogged about it already and contrasted it with predecessors you weren’t even aware of.
39
votes
Inter Alia
Dallas lawyer Tom Mighell’s bread and butter are his blawg-of-the-day posts and his newsletter, Internet Legal Research Weekly. He told Lawyers USA in August that he has tracked nearly 2,300 law blogs since 2000, and declared that failed legal blogs last an average of one year and 10 months.
31
votes
FutureLawyer
Are you an Android power user? Then this St. Petersburg, Fla., solo’s blog is for you. Rick Georges puts up one or two brief but substantive posts a day, alternating between content related to Droid apps and other software, and op-eds on law practice issues.
26
votes
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Kevin O’Keefe, the Seattle-based CEO of LexBlog, “isn’t afraid to speak his mind as he challenges the legal community to use social media effectively,” Technola blogger Kate Bladow wrote us. And O’Keefe, not to put too fine a point on it, thinks a lawyer needs a blog to be taken seriously on the Internet. But we regret that the lion’s share of the blog’s posts are increasingly devoted to promoting blogs in the LexBlog network.
25
votes
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Santa Clara University law prof Eric Goldman and Seattle lawyer Venkat Balasubramani primarily summarize and analyze court decisions concerning Internet, privacy, copyright and trademark law. Goldman also regularly posts themed “quick links” news roundups and links to Internet law scholarship.
21
votes
Strategic Legal Technology
Strategic Legal Technology’s Ron Friedmann covers “project management, legal outsourcing and legal innovation in a way that makes you contemplate what is happening in the industry and what we need to do to keep our competitive edge." —Greg Lambert, 3 Geeks and a Law Blog
