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• 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.

• Home Office Lawyer

  Discussion of how to effectively run a nontraditional law practice, utilizing Internet technology and nonhourly-rates billing options.

• 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."
  

• Gruntled Employees

  "Managers, executives, in-house counsel, and HR people know all about disgruntled employees. They cost employers billions of dollars each year in lawsuits, attorney fees, lost productivity, and wasted time. Here we discuss how to keep employees gruntled. We also talk about dealing with your lawyers."

• 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.

• PT-LawMom

  This blawg discusses work-life balance issues faced by parents in the workplace, highlights legal news stories, and covers other blogs and topics, not all of them law-related.

• Minor Wisdom

  Minor Wisdom includes the lawyer-author's "off-the-cuff opinions" on topics that include current affairs, depression, legal research and books.

• Chuck Newton

  This blawg covers "preachings and teachings" from Chuck Newton's perspective inside a "third wave" law firm.

• The Inspired Solo

  This blawg "is a breath of fresh air for solo lawyers and those who want to be! Offering bootstrapping marketing guidance, help in making the decision to go solo, 'lawhacks'—tips and tricks on using technology to simplify the practice of law, reviews of new hardware, software, and books, and advice on getting, and staying, inspired by solo practice."
  

• Blank Sheet of Paper

  Blank Sheet of Paper contains thoughts and advice about creativity and law firm management.

• Lawyer’s Right Hand

  "Tips on career, excellence and work/life balance for legal secretaries, served up with a dash of humor and the occasional gentle rant."

• The Legal Thing … by Mike Dillon

  This blawgger, an in-house counsel, talks about cases filed against his company, legislation and court decisions that affect his practice, and his day-to-day life.

• Law Students Building a Better Legal Profession

  Building a Better Legal Profession is a national, law student-driven grassroots movement that seeks workplace reforms in large private law firms. The blog and site post self-reported data on billable hours, pro bono participation and diversity. The blog strives to "ensure that practicing law does not mean giving up a commitment to family, community, and dedicated service to clients."
  

• Lag Liv

  Lag liv, Swedish for "law life," is an anonymous blog featuring a law student who posts about being a new mom, wife and law student, turned gripping in the fall of 2007, when the author began detailing the horror of losing her son and the ensuing legal and child protective services battle to get him back.

• Legal Ease Blog

  "Positioning law firms for maximum success: helping lawyers and law firm managers create more productive, profitable and enjoyable practices."

• The Rural Bus Route

  Examines everything from the mundane to the daily practice life of a lawyer in North Dakota.

• The Suburban Ecstasies

  The blog features poetry, legal and political analysis by a public defender in New Hampshire.

• Reid My Blog!

  Furthering innovation in management, governance, and ethics for lawyers and their firms.

• Legal Sanity

  Roundup of recent blawg posts and general discussion of life-balance issues, among other topics. As the blawg puts it: "legal sanity aims to counter the growing problem of lawyer discontent by providing practical information, ideas and advice on remaking the everyday practice of law to achieve optimal outcomes, professional and personal success and work-life balance."

• Lawyer Mama

  Less, much less, about substantive law, than life as a working mom, Lawyer Mama follows the ups and downs, thoughts and musings of a Virginia attorney.

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