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Blawg Directory: Law Firms

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.
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."
Home Office Lawyer
Discussion of how to effectively run a nontraditional law practice, utilizing Internet technology and nonhourly-rates billing options.
Above the Law
Above the Law calls itself a legal tabloid. Its focus is legal gossip.
Because you never know …
"... whether you'll stub your toe on a rock or a pearled oyster as you wade through the muddy waters of life."
Point of Law
"Information and opinion on the U.S. litigation system."
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.
Temporary Attorney: The Sweatshop Edition
This blawg's intent is to "expose the nasty sweatshops, swindling law schools, and opportunistic staffing agencies."
Law Blog
"WSJ.com on law and business and the business of law."
Conglomerate
This blawg is a collaborative project covering business, law, economics and society. There are several posts every day about U.S. foreign policy and trade—with room for law school news, the latest lawsuits and personal musings.
Overlawyered
This blawg "explores an American legal system that too often turns litigation into a weapon against guilty and innocent alike, erodes individual responsibility, rewards sharp practice, enriches its participants at the public's expense, and resists even modest efforts at reform and accountability."
California Condo & HOA Law
Covers news, issues and legal developments related to California condos and homeowner associations.
More Partner Income
"This site is dedicated to ideas and techniques for the financial management of the law firm with the objective of increasing the income of equity partners."
My Shingle
My Shingle is a blawg for and about solos and small law firms.
The [Non]billable Hour
The [Non]billable Hour deals with law-firm management and technology issues. It says it is "changing professional practice one idea at a time."
Al Nye the Lawyer Guy
"Law, technology, hardware and software, book reviews, software reviews, sports, weblogs, life."
Skadden Insider
This blawg is "created to collect and pass along (and sometimes comment on) the gossip and news making its way through the halls of a certain law firm's offices. Have a rumor, some gossip or news you'd like to share? Well, contact us at ."
Adam Smith, Esq.
Adam Smith, Esq. is "an inquiry into the economics of law firms." The blawg links to and analyzes articles about law firm strategy and profitability.
L.A. Legal Pad
A daily blawg on the Los Angeles legal scene.
Day on Torts
Discussions on a wide range of tort topics, with a focus on helping other lawyers understand plaintiff trial practice.