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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.

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776
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Legal 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.
694
votes

Counsel 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.
137
votes

Build 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.
85
votes

Jim 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.
51
votes

Larry 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.
45
votes

Bag 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.
45
votes

My 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.
36
votes

Deliberations

Cuts to the heart of what juries want to know and what they think is important in cases from across the country.
35
votes

Adam Smith, Esq.

Bruce MacEwen’s blog is all about what BigLaw is doing right and wrong—salaries, retirement policies, e-books, you name it.
33
votes

Home 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.
31
votes

More 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.
21
votes

Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites

Directs readers to panel discussions, URLs, podcasts, TV specials and other legal info that might slip under the radar.
20
votes

ABA 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.
19
votes

Wayne 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.
15
votes

Inter 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.
12
votes

The [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.
11
votes

DennisKennedy.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.
10
votes

LawBiz 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.
7
votes

Amazing 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.