The ABA Journal Blawg 100
These are the 100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal.
Voting ended on Jan. 2.
For a printable list of all 100 blawgs, click here. For profiles of seven lawyers who started the blawg revolution, click here.
If you’re one of the blawggers in the Blawg 100, click here to learn how to promote the honor on your site.
- Generally Speaking
- All Business
- Politics for Sport
- Ivory Tower
- Black Letter Law
- Lawyer's Toolkit
- Your So-Called Life
- Crime Time
- JDs in Training
- Lawyers Behaving Badly
- Gossip
- Benched
Choose a category to vote on...
Lawyer's Toolkit
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776
votesLegal Process Outsourcing
Rahul Jindal hails from just outside of New Delhi. He documents the outsourcing phenomenon both “from the ground” and from combing the blogosphere.
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694
votesCounsel to Counsel
It’s all about careers: Legal recruiters post networking tips and salary studies, and they highlight both the struggles of lawyers just starting out and BigLaw excesses.
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137
votesBuild a Solo Practice
Provides primers and near-daily advice about what every solo and very many nonsolos want to know: how to strike out on their own.
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85
votesJim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog
Links to new legal blogs, ABA and Oklahoma Bar Association handbooks, technology conferences and news articles—some written by Calloway.
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51
votesLarry Bodine LawMarketing Blog
This former editor and publisher of the ABA Journal stays on top of what law firms in the U.S. and Canada are doing marketing-wise, and he also serves up a plateful of advice and anecdotes.
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45
votesBag and Baggage
Denise Howell’s posts on this blog (she has two others plus a weekly podcast) sometimes drift from her first love, technology law, toward motherhood in the O.C.
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45
votesMy Shingle
Longtime blawgger Carolyn Elefant contrasts solo life and BigLaw and dispenses career strategy and marketing advice to those on her side of the fence.
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36
votesDeliberations
Cuts to the heart of what juries want to know and what they think is important in cases from across the country.
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35
votesAdam Smith, Esq.
Bruce MacEwen’s blog is all about what BigLaw is doing right and wrong—salaries, retirement policies, e-books, you name it.
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33
votesHome Office Lawyer
In 2005, Grant Griffiths set up shop in his basement and never looked back. He blogs about how technology helps him—and could help you—pull this off.
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31
votesMore Partner Income
The voice inside law partners’ heads, reminding them of the hard choices they have to make—complete with graphs and links to additional articles.
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21
votesRobert Ambrogi’s LawSites
Directs readers to panel discussions, URLs, podcasts, TV specials and other legal info that might slip under the radar.
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20
votesABA Site-tation
An ABA staff-written blog that reviews new gadgets and lists their release dates and also alerts readers about tech resources available on the Web.
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19
votesWayne Schiess’s Legal-Writing Blog
A law professor posts about the latest court rules regarding word limits and page limits, as well as the use of cites, footnotes and dates. He even entertains debate about the serial comma.
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15
votesInter Alia
Tom Mighell could probably compile a Blawg 100 in his sleep: His site features a “Blawg of the Day” seven days a week. Posts also cover legal technology.
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12
votesThe [Non]billable Hour
Matt Homann stumbles on ideas far outside of the legal realm (can tips on getting a date help a lawyer seeking clients?) to advise on productivity, networking and technology.
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11
votesDennisKennedy.blog
Covers mostly legal technology—e-discovery, podcasting, conferences. But this newly minted ABA Journal monthly columnist makes room for other talked-about law topics and personal notes.
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10
votesLawBiz Blog
Ed Poll finds plenty to post about from his speaking schedule alone. He writes about outsourcing and the cold-hard-cash facts of starting—or ending—a law practice.
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7
votesAmazing Firms, Amazing Practices
Documents trends in the profession and cautionary tales of badly managed firms. Also links to interactive quizzes that measure one’s managing ability.













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