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Blawg Directory: Blawg 100

Patently-O
Is described as "the most popular patent law blog and a daily read for thousands of attorneys and agents from every major IP firm, innovative corporation, and TC at the USPTO."
How Appealing
How Appealing calls itself the first blawg devoted to appellate litigation. Updated frequently throughout the day, it posts links to breaking legal news stories and important court decisions. The site is an affiliate of law.com and also has links to its stories.
Slaw
A blog by and for the legal research and IT community in Canada. The name "Slaw" was chosen in deference to Salon and Slate and because "there's the notion that a cooperative weblog with many contributors is bound to consist of a great many (nutritious) small pieces in rather a jumble."
SCOTUSblog
SCOTUSblog analyzes the cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and posts breaking news of court decisions. Supreme Court decisions are often posted here before the high court puts them on its own Web site.
Home Office Lawyer
Discussion of how to effectively run a nontraditional law practice, utilizing Internet technology and nonhourly-rates billing options.
Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports
This blog highlights academic job openings and covers salaries of professors, salaries of recent law school graduates, recent law review articles and other law school news. It can also be counted on to come up with its own rankings of law schools and law reviews.
The Trademark Blog
This blawg is about about trademark cases and related issues.
Durham-in-Wonderland
"Comments and analysis about the Duke/Nifong case."
Jurist—Paper Chase
"Serious law. Primary sources. Global perspective." Broad-ranging legal information and research site which includes legal news articles and links to documents. Has a mission to focus on legal stories of substantive importance rather than sensational appeal and cover both national and international legal news.
Law and More
"Deconstructing what happens in law." A particular focus on consumer law and class-action litigation, and lead-paint litigation in particular. Some posts amount to professional-skills pep talks, and others recap recent episodes of Boston Legal.
Meeting the Sin Laws
Musings on laws affecting adult entertainment, alcoholic beverages and other "vice" industries.
The Clerkship Notification Blog (2010-11)
Comprehensive information about judges and status of applications for 2009-10 clerkships, along with numerous comments.
Mirror of Justice
A blog devoted to the development of Catholic legal theory.
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."
Jonathan Turley
Law and order news-of-the-weird, news stories concerning criminal charges against police officers and members of the military and scandals in the U.S. Justice Department.
Bench Memos
Features news, commentary and criticism mainly involving the judiciary and confirmation process.
China Law Blog
One China-based and one U.S.-based lawyer cover China business news and entertain with links to fish-out-of-water posts about being an American in China.
Temporary Attorney: The Sweatshop Edition
This blawg's intent is to "expose the nasty sweatshops, swindling law schools, and opportunistic staffing agencies."
Defending People
This blawg is about the art and science of criminal defense trial lawyering. Rather than using his blog to shake his fist at injustice everywhere, Mark Bennett focuses on how lawyers can make their own justice in the courtroom. He shares his philosophies through analogies and anecdotes from his Houston criminal defense practice.
Law Blog
"WSJ.com on law and business and the business of law." The Wall Street Journal's legal blog features a half-dozen detailed posts daily on a wide variety of legal topics from law firm shakeups—sometimes featuring interviews with BigLaw names—to the U.S. Supreme Court. Posts frequently include links to pleadings and other relevant legal documents.