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The 2008 ABA Journal Blawg 100

These are the 100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal.

The voting period has ended.

Thank you to all who participated. The final results are listed below.

For a printable list of all 100 blogs, click here. Check out the mini profiles of Ann Althouse, Ernie Svenson and Jurist-Paper Chase. For our list of One-Hit Wonders, click here.

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Students

590
votes

Thank You Ma’am

Blogger Sharon Nichols, a University of Alabama law student, turned her posts on “political commentary and general frivolity” into a book deal. Her Facebook group, I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar, led to a forthcoming book by the same name. Nichols has nearly abandoned political topics, but Bama’s mass e-mail policies give her plenty of post fodder.
456
votes

Nuts & Boalts

“Boalties” from the University of California at Berkeley collaborate to blog about news, sports, politics, gossip and student questions. Founder Armen Adzhemyan, now an associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles, set the tone in 2004 with his ground rules for the blog: “Boalt, law schools, law, politics or anything is fair game.”
350
votes

Ms.JD

Founded in 2006 by a group of female law students across the country, Ms. JD authors have branched out beyond their regularly updated blog to form the National Women Law Students’ Organization. Like the blog, the group strives to improve career prospects for female lawyers; it will hold its third leadership summit in March at Yale.
158
votes

The Shark

A primarily student-run publication of Cal Law, the Shark features news and culture directly related to the experience of being in law school. The Johnny-on-the-spot bloggers earned their breaking news badge this year by being among the first to post U.S. News & World Report’s annual law school rankings.
101
votes

Diary of a Law School Mom

This wife and mother of three blogs about issues including what to do with a family in Colorado and even an occasional post about law school. But the 32-year-old author, who boasts that she is not a “one-dimensional gunner,” writes about topics to which “nontraditional law students” and busy moms would relate.