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Blawg Directory: Work/Life Balance

Accident Prone
In her first post in December 2004, Miriam explains her blog "Accident Prone" as a way to "join the masses of wannabe-amateur-journalists." She settled on "Accident Prone" as a name "because I am."

"I can promise nothing of substance with this blog because I am not a person of substance, baby. It's all style."
Adventures in Voluntary Simplicity
This diary chronicles the decisions and strategies of Jack, a Washington, D.C., lawyer who is leaving his $300,000-plus salary job to design a life that "embraces the beauty and freedom of simple happiness."
Aspiring Solo
"This blog is dedicated to those transitioning past law school, through the bar exam, and on to the practice of law."
Build a Solo Practice @ SPU
"Newly minted or well-seasoned, teaching you how to create and grow your legal practice." Business planning from the ground up: marketing, getting clients, keeping clients.
Butterflyfish
"Blogging about law, life and a little fish." This blog regularly hosts the weekly MILP (Moms in Law Practice) Roundup of recent posts by other lawyer-mother-bloggers.
Callinan the Librarian
This blawgger hopes "to explore the joys and triumphs of librarians in the 21st century and to use that good news to empower all who read it."
Chuck Newton
"Preachings and teachings from my perspective inside a third-wave law firm. Appealing to spare room tycoons, home office lawyers, downshifters, carpet commuters, connected attorneys, law students and wannabes." Posts cover law school news and emerging law practice niches. You can also follow Chuck Newton on Twitter.
Darling Hill
"Where life and flexible lawyering meet. Where there's no shame in the mommy track (or daddy track). Where lawyers come to find flexible lawyer jobs, alternative legal career ideas and work/life balance. The legal niche for part-time lawyers, stay-at-home lawyers, and work-from-home lawyers."
Diary of a Law School Mom
"One woman's journey from living room to law school with one husband and three kids in tow. Wear comfortable shoes and bring liquor."
Fearfully Optimistic
"About helping law students kick ass in law school with less stress."
Get Creative
Get Creative contains thoughts and advice about creativity and law firm management.
Gruntled Employees
"Managers, executives, in-house counsel, and HR people know all about disgruntled employees. They cost employers billions of dollars each year in lawsuits, attorney fees, lost productivity, and wasted time. Here we discuss how to keep employees gruntled. We also talk about dealing with your lawyers."
Halo Secretarial Services
The legal industry, virtual assistant businesses and work-life balance.
JD Bliss
Provides resources for attorneys looking for greater career satisfaction, work-life balance and personal growth. The blog also is meant for law firms looking for ways to motivate lawyers and improve attorney retention.
Knocked Up (and in Law School)
"Mediocre law school, mediocre grades, mediocre blog posts. Not discoverable."
Lag Liv
"A brand-new corporate attorney with a husband, toddler, cat, two big dogs and a lot of shoes."
Law Business Revolution Blog
Blog posts are written with an eye toward changing the way lawyers think about attracting, engaging, serving and retaining clients.
Law Consulting Blog
"Motivating and inspiring lawyers to identify and achieve their purpose, values and goals."
Law People
Covers law practice management and work/life balance issues.
Lawdable
"Lawdable is a forum for in-house and managing attorneys to discover and share information related to the issues they face on a daily basis. Through a 'best practices' approach, the blog provides commentary from experts in a wide range of areas, citing specific client examples of progressive and innovative (or 'laudable') initiatives that have helped legal departments become more efficient and economical without sacrificing quality. More specifically, it focuses on national issues and general commentary on the use of attorneys in a nontraditional manner, issues affecting legal departments on a daily basis and how both new and tested approaches can offer solutions, litigation support and e-discovery, best practices regarding technology implementation and efficiency training methods for teams of attorneys, and the work-life balance sought by attorneys."