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Blawg Directory: Blawg 100

Build a Solo Practice
"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.
Deliberations
This blawg covers jury matters of all kinds and their implications for trial lawyers, from new case law, social science research, current trials, and the blogosphere. The site includes a section collecting sample juror questionnaires to assist lawyers preparing for voir dire.
Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog
This blawg covers "law practice management, the Internet and technology as it applies both in law practice and in all of our lives."
Althouse
Covers law, politics and the general musings of law professor Ann Althouse.
Simple Justice
Commentary about the law, courts and life, from an old defense lawyer's point of view.
Home Office Lawyer
Discussion of how to effectively run a nontraditional law practice, utilizing Internet technology and nonhourly-rates billing options.
The Volokh Conspiracy
This blawg covers and debates news and political issues.
How Appealing
How Appealing calls itself the first blawg devoted to appellate litigation. Updated frequently throughout the day, it posts links to breaking legal news stories and important court decisions. The site is an affiliate of law.com and also has links to its stories.
TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime
TalkLeft says it contains "liberal coverage of crime-related political and injustice news." Its mission is to "intelligently and thoroughly examine issues, candidates and legislative initiatives as they pertain to constitutional rights, particularly those of persons accused of crime."
Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports
This blog highlights academic job openings and covers salaries of professors, salaries of recent law school graduates, recent law review articles and other law school news. It can also be counted on to come up with its own rankings of law schools and law reviews.
InstaPundit
Glenn Reynolds' blawg comments on current events and links to The Glenn and Helen Show, the podcast series he hosts with his wife, forensic psychologist Dr. Helen Smith. He says his "chief interest is in the intersection between advanced technologies and individual liberty."
Patently-O
Is described as "the most popular patent law blog and a daily read for thousands of attorneys and agents from every major IP firm, innovative corporation, and TC at the USPTO."
Concurring Opinions
Concurring Opinions is a general-interest legal blawg.
Durham-in-Wonderland
"Comments and analysis about the Duke/Nifong case."
Sentencing Law and Policy
Features news, issues, commentary and provides resources related to sentencing law and policy.
Ms.JD
"Serving women in law school and the legal profession, Ms. JD is an online community that provides a forum for dialogue and networking among women lawyers and aspiring lawyers." The blawg features issues relating to the numbers of women who opt out of the legal profession and the poor representation of women in the courts and legal community. The site also addresses the role of gender in legal careers.
Legal Profession Blog
Covers a variety of general interest legal topics and is especially focused on ethics, professional responsibility and the practice of law.
What About Clients?
"What About Clients? is a weblog which contains my personal ideas and thoughts on servicing business clients as valued customers in American law firms. I started it in 2005 because I think that 1) the level of service at even the best American law firms is often inattentive and erratic—and that troubles me—and 2) even where service is sound, it can be a lot better."
Feminist Law Professors
Feminist Law Professors highlights the work of feminist law professors and contains information about articles and events that are likely to be of interest to them.
SCOTUSblog
SCOTUSblog analyzes the cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and posts breaking news of court decisions. Supreme Court decisions are often posted here before the high court puts them on its own Web site.