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• That’s What She Said

  This blawg examines the NBC television series The Office and comes up with a per-episode estimate of the value of litigation claims against Dunder Mifflin.

• The Backbencher

  "Humor about law school, lawyering and beyond."

• Courtoons

  A blog of daily legal cartoons.

• Legal Antics

  A legal humor site "because let's face it—lawyers take themselves far too seriously and the law is damn funny if you look at it through the right lens."

• Lowering the Bar

  "Legal humor. Seriously."

• Say What?!

  "Real-life Texas courtroom humor ... most of which comes straight from actual depositions and trials."

• The Namby Pamby, Attorney-at-Law

  "I get paid to dress pretty, go to court, and talk to crazy people. This is just one lawyer's approach to the practice of law." This 20-something lawyer practicing personal injury law logs in a few times a week to share laughs at the day-to-day of his job and his own inter­personal missteps.

• Bitter Lawyer

  Some posts are short "webisodes" of Living the Dream, a scripted comedy series centered around Nick Conley, a BigLaw associate. Accompanying blog posts describe the real-life inspirations behind each webisode. There are also many columns: an advice column authored by "an Ex-Bitter"; "Associate Abuse," which posts associate war stories from all over; "Bitter by Numbers," an opinion column appearing in list form; "Loose Ends," which covers legal news; "Bitter Rant," which posts lawyer rants from all over; "Pictures Framed," which posts images or illustrations of lawyers and invites readers to submit captions; and "Temper(a)mental," written from the point of view of a legal temp.

• Anonymous Lawyer

  This blawgger writes "stories from the trenches, by a fictional hiring partner at a large law firm in a major city."

• Anticipate This!

  Anticipate This! is "a patent law blog providing thought-provoking commentary ... with a dash of irreverent humor."

• The Party of the First Part

  The origin and meaning of legal language; legal humor; word of the week; and news regarding the eternal battle between plain English and legalese. Also includes Adam Freedman's past columns for New York Law Journal Magazine.
  

• A Criminal Waste of Space

  An "irreverent look at legal matters." This blawg is updated on a monthly basis.

• Ellen Barshevsky—The BLAWG

  This blog was launched after the author was banned from posting regular comments on ABAJournal.com. Ellen notes that the blog is about her and she, exclaims in her signature use of random all-caps, that, "I hope YOU enjoy it as MUCH as my BOYFRIEND."

• QuizLaw

  The blog is part of QuizLaw.com's efforts to combat "legalese" and provide the public with access to understandable legal information.

• 101 Reasons to Kill All the Lawyers

  Legal cartoons and commentary.

• LawComix

  "Law cartoons exclusively for lawyers."

• Supreme Dicta

  "An eccentric look at law, politics, and the U.S. Supreme Court."

• Muskrat

  "Sometimes, I say things that are inappropriate."
  

• Anonymous Assistant

  "A fictional account of a junior litigation lawyer, Helen Bailey (and her friends) as she struggles to assert herself amidst the egos and eccentricities of a law firm."
  

• Sean Carter’s Lawpsided View of the Law

  "Random musings about the state of the law and the legal profession from its foremost (and likely, only) Humorist at Law." Carter spearheaded a Blawger Survivor contest with more than a dozen other blawgs, challenging them to post every buisness day for the last three weeks of August, and he has also done Legal Broadcast Network webcasts on Sonia Sotomayor's confimation hearings and the White House "beer summit."
  

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