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Blawg Directory: Blawg 100

From the Desk of Patrick J. Fitzgerald
An anonymous missive focusing on Patrick J. Fitzgerald's fight for "Truth, justice and the American Way."
Lessig Blog
Lawrence Lessig crusades for network neutrality and finite copyright restrictions, and against corruption within the Federal Communications Commission and elsewhere. This tech-focused blawg includes many of Lessig's articles as well as discussion posts by guests ranging from "Granny D," a 94-year-old U.S. Senate candidate, to Richard Posner of the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Patent Baristas
Besides patent law and litigation issues, Patent Baristas covers items relating to building a bioscience business, nanotechnology, technology transfer, orange book filings as well as FTC and FDA regulatory matters.
The Mac Lawyer
Posts chronicle the experiences of lawyers who make the switch from PC to Mac, and offers tips and advice to those considering a Mac-based practice.
May It Please the Court
May It Please the Court calls itself a blawg of "legal news and observations." Most of the subjects covered fall in the author's practice areas: business litigation, including environmental, contract disputes, intellectual property, tax and international trade.
BlackProf
"Race, law and culture." Law professors blog on racially significant legal, political and sociological developments of the past and present, and spotlight black media figures.
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Real Lawyers Have Blogs contains legal marketing and management advice.
Out-Law.com
This blawg "has 7,000 pages of free legal news and guidance, mostly on IT and e-commerce issues. These issues can affect any organisation, and OUT-LAW is as much for those in a software start-up as it is for the compliance team at a bank." It also provides a weekly Thursday podcast, OUT-LAW Radio.
Electronic Discovery Blog
Electronic Discovery Blog covers information and issues relating to electronic discovery, including case summaries.
Legalities
Discussions on life and the law by an ABC News legal correspondent.
The Frugal Law Student
"A Law Student’s Effort To Mitigate His Crippling Student Debt." Shopping, saving and other financial tips across the board to help a struggling law student (or grad) save money, from the best (and worst) times to go to the supermarket and ways to save on clothes and car-washing to ideas for reducing the cost of law school and paying off loan debt pronto. "I created this site as a way keep track and find out ways to save money while in law school. I’ll write up posts on discoveries I’ve made in the hope that it can benefit someone else. In addition to personal finance posts, I also post on productivity/life hack topics that have come in handy to me while in law school."
Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica
Posts mostly cover Internet and intellectual property law. The name is Latin-derived for the "art of technology"
Bag and Baggage
"Blog and the world blogs with you, spam and you spam alone." This blawg offers musings on legal issues, "news, other blogs, her practice areas and life in general." It also offers a link to the blawgger's podcast series, This Week in Law.
Crime and Consequences
"Discusses crime and the criminal law. Topics include 1) criminal and crime-related civil cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. 2) Significant decisions in the field by other courts. 3) Studies with public policy implications related to crime and criminal justice. 4) Links to and discussion of news items and blogs related to criminal law."
Legalethics.com
"Focusing on the ethical issues associated with the use of technology by legal professionals."
Ross Ipsa Loquitur Blog
Ross Ipsa Loquitur is an active blawg that chronicles the legal technology trends, tools, techniques, gadgets and concepts from the perspective of legal technologist Ross Kodner and his team from MicroLaw.com. With a mix of insightfulness and irreverence, subscribers laud the blawg for both is educational and entertainment attributes - Ross calls it "edutainment!"
The Precedent Blog
"News. Gossip. Comments. Amusement." This is the blawg of the Ontario, Canada, quarterly "law and style" magazine Precedent. Posts on legal news stories in the U.S. and Canada as well as weekly installments on fashion and wine.
Legal Blog Watch
This blawg tracks and analyzes the postings of Law.com blawgs and other legal blawgs.
BabyBarista
"Serving coffee for the rich and powerful—a junior's view." An admittedly fictional diary of a junior barrister at the English bar. It was a sensation from the start, and the London Times picked it up within months of its launch. It’s part soap opera and part snark from an author who’s cheesed off with the legal profession.
LawBeat
LawBeat watches the journalists who watch the law.