Blawg Directory: Work/Life Balance
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Based on the number of times our readers have visited our descriptions of these blawgs.
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Knocked Up (and in Law School)
"Mediocre law school, mediocre grades, mediocre blog posts. Not discoverable."
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Lawsagna
Lawsagna contains "thoughts, tools, tips and other ingredients for a successful learning experience in law school and beyond."
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Butterflyfish
"Blogging about law, life and a little fish." This blog regularly hosts the weekly MILP (Moms in Law Practice) Roundup of recent posts by other lawyer-mother-bloggers.
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Up to Par
Up to Par posts information, resources and advice for lawyers who want to balance work and home life.
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Aspiring Solo
"This blog is dedicated to those transitioning past law school, through the bar exam, and on to the practice of law."
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The Legal Pad
Features "resources and weekly updates that can make your work experience more enjoyable, rewarding and valuable to your clients and attorneys you help."
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Portland Contract Lawyering
"Promotes solo practice and freelance legal work and discusses changes in the legal profession, modern law practice and technology, and legal research and writing."
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The Recovering Lawyer
"Features posts for high-achieving lawyers who are dissatisfied with their current career. We focus on helping those lawyers discover and land their true life's career and to handling the angst and anxiety of being in the wrong career. It is a forum of support, although many of the subscribers would rather remain anonymous."
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Lawdable
"Lawdable is a forum for in-house and managing attorneys to discover and share information related to the issues they face on a daily basis. Through a 'best practices' approach, the blog provides commentary from experts in a wide range of areas, citing specific client examples of progressive and innovative (or 'laudable') initiatives that have helped legal departments become more efficient and economical without sacrificing quality. More specifically, it focuses on national issues and general commentary on the use of attorneys in a nontraditional manner, issues affecting legal departments on a daily basis and how both new and tested approaches can offer solutions, litigation support and e-discovery, best practices regarding technology implementation and efficiency training methods for teams of attorneys, and the work-life balance sought by attorneys."
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Lawyer-Coach
Tips on topics that law school never taught you about—the business of running a law practice. It also helps lawyers find ways to make their practices more enjoyable and meaningful.
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Darling Hill
"Where life and flexible lawyering meet. Where there's no shame in the mommy track (or daddy track). Where lawyers come to find flexible lawyer jobs, alternative legal career ideas and work/life balance. The legal niche for part-time lawyers, stay-at-home lawyers, and work-from-home lawyers."
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The Published Lawyer
"A blog for lawyers interested in freelance writing and getting published."
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Lawyers with Depression
"Reflections and commentaries about the impact of depression on the legal profession. Depression is a widespread problem for lawyers. Studies indicate that they suffer from depression at a rate twice that of the average American. Accordingly, approximately 200,000 of the nation's 1 million lawyers struggle with depression. The blog looks at depression from many different angles."
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The Untethered Lawyer
Discusses the hows of setting up a solo law practice from a home office.
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Fearfully Optimistic
"About helping law students kick ass in law school with less stress."
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The Busy Lawyer’s Guide to Success
"This is the companion blog to our ABA book, The Busy Lawyer's Guide to Success: Essential Tips to Power Your Practice. In the book, we’ve endeavored to assemble the absolute best-ever collection of practical tips, ideas, and techniques to help you survive, thrive, and find success in the practice of law. This blawg allows us to continue to share practice management tips and ideas as well as success stories from our readers."
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The Paralegal Mentor
"Dedicated to helping paralegals reach their professional goals while striking balance in their personal lives."
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The Complete Lawyer
"Focuses solely on the professionalism and quality of life and career issues that impact every lawyer’s success and satisfaction." Contributors "provide daily tools and insights that help lawyers succeed in their careers and lives as a whole." Posts mainly cover managing and marketing small law practices as well as managing stress and personal finances.
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The Mommy Esquire
"One working mom's guide to crazy."
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Marketing Strategy and the Law
Posts cover using social media for business-generation purposes, law practice management issues and the author's takes on work/life balance.