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The 2010 ABA Journal Blawg 100
These are this year’s 100 best legal blogs, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal.
Welcome to the fourth annual ABA Journal Blawg 100—the best legal blogs as selected by the Journal's editors.
Each year, we scour the Web to bring you the best and brightest law bloggers in a variety of categories, and this year is no different.
Read the full intro and magazine version here.
Voting is now closed.
- Court Watch
- Law Biz
- News
- Law Prof Plus
- Torts
- In Labor
- IP Law
- Criminal Justice
- IMHO
- Niche
- For Fun
- Legal Tech
News: There’s everything here from hard news coverage of the law and the legal industry to a more tabloid-oriented, infotainment approach to covering lawyers and where they work.
219
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Above the Law
Breaking Media’s Above the Law is developing into a legal publishing empire, with streams on BigLaw, small firms, in-house, law schools and legal technology. Blogger Ken Adams of Koncision Contract Automation in Garden City, N.Y., says he’s “way older than the target demographic,” but nevertheless he finds “Elie Mystal to be the most engaging writer in the legal blogosphere.” Adams says Mystal is “combative, entertaining” and refreshingly self-deprecating. We agree.
83
votes
The Am Law Daily
To get a quick take on the goings-on at large law firms in the U.S. and increasingly abroad, this is a go-to American Lawyer magazine blog. It offers quick, insightful takes on firms working the big deals, the career paths of rainmakers, the churn of partners jumping from one firm to another, legal industry growth areas and weak spots putting practices (and sometimes firms) at risk.
52
votes
Law Blog
For most of the year, former BigLaw litigator Nathan Koppel held the reins at this Wall Street Journal blog. He grabbed hold of breaking legal news and reactions to significant legal de velopments while staying on top of the business of law firms (from layoffs to big hires) and covering the cases and court decisions affecting the business community. He heads to Texas for the WSJ, and we hope his successor picks up where Koppel left off.
43
votes
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
Inside the Beltway, the National Law Journal’s BLT has the practice and politics of law covered. We’re particular fans of the blog’s gavel-to-gavel coverage of the high court (and its players) as lead writer Tony Mauro cuts through jargon, and wades through dense opinions and briefs to deliver easy-to-read posts featuring momentous cases and, on occasion, offering unique perspectives about the lesser-known side of SCOTUS.
38
votes
Legal Blog Watch
Legal Blog Watch has a knack for spotlighting the legal news of the weird. Posts are well-written and, as Lowering the Bar blogger Kevin Underhill says, “very witty and always interesting.”
35
votes
How Appealing
No trial practice advice here, but Willow Grove, Pa., appellate lawyer Howard Bashman digests the most relevant and interesting opinions, headlines, blog posts and press releases of interest to litigators for up to 16 hours a day every weekday. We defy you to open the home page and not feel compelled to click on a link.
32
votes
Proof and Hearsay
Many daily newspapers have their own police blotter-ish crime blogs that only touch on trials, but this blog of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel really gives Wisconsin’s courts, litigation and lawyer discipline their due.
16
votes
Threat Level
Wired’s Threat Level doesn’t position itself as a legal blog, but it’s a great source of straight news reporting on breaking stories in the realms of Internet law, intellectual property law and privacy law. Lawyers shouldn’t miss it.
11
votes
Law & Disorder
Law & Disorder is the fast-paced, first-on-the-scene legal blog from the technology website Ars Technica. Posts track developments in Internet law and policy in the U.S. and abroad.
6
votes
LegalNewsline
Legal Newsline is where the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Legal Reform keeps watch over news and important developments in litigation, as well as court fights over legislation. Posts focus largely on state court actions of interest and their rise through the civil justice system.
