Blawgs

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Blawgs”

• 50 Great Blogs For and By Law Professors

  
  Conglomerate — Authority: 534
  Over the weekend, a young professor asked me for a list of my favorite law blogs. Some of them are on this list , which was just created, though that list omits two of my regular stops: ProfessorBainbridge.com and  Ideoblog .
  1 day ago

• Obama Signs Hate Crimes Act: Anti-gays Hyperventilate, Crimes Against Ladies Ignored

  
  Fannie's Room — Authority: 421
  In October 2009, President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act that expands federal hate crime law to include crimes motivated by a persons actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. The previous law permitted prosecution of hate ...
  2 days ago

• New Blog on the Blogroll

  
  Defending People — Authority: 568
  Law and Baseball , by criminal defense lawyer Johnny Gardner, from Bobby Frederick’s stomping grounds of Horry County, South Carolina. Copyright © 2009 Mark Bennett . This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your ...
  3 days ago

• 11/3/09 Election News: LGBT Rights Edition

  
  Fannie's Room — Authority: 421
  I want to take a moment today to acknowledge the LGBT items that voters decided on recently in Michigan, Maine, and Washington. 1. Michigan In June 2009, in Kalamazoo, Michigan the city council unanimously approved an ordinance protecting gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people from discrimination in ...
  6 days ago

• On Behalf of Matt Brown, You’re Welcome.

  
  Defending People — Authority: 568
  David DeCosta was set up , to begin with: set up by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office and the Phoenix Police Department, and almost certainly factually innocent. Phoenix criminal defense lawyer Matt Brown didn’t know that at first, but he found the story of DeCosta’s arrest for allegedly trying to sneak ...
  1 week ago

• Bloggers Beware! ATL Gets Sued

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 139
  The blawg site abovethelaw.com has been sued by a Florida law professor, acting pro se.  Although ATL is refraining from comment out of respect for the judicial system, you can find a juicy analysis of the case and why its unlikely to survive a motion to dismiss here . Here’s a quick rundown of the background of ...
  1 week ago

• Brevity is the Soul of Blogging

  
  Lawyerist — Authority: 477
  Lawyers tend to be long-winded, but long-winded bloggers tend to be unpopular. The longer a post goes, the more likely a reader will click away, so it pays to keep blog posts short, sweet, and pithy. The most important thing is to consider your audience. If you are writing for other lawyers, you may be able to get ...
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• Stuff I Don’t Want to Miss Mentioning

  
  Defending People — Authority: 568
  Scott Greenfield makes the world a little safer for blawgers ( via Houston criminal defense lawyer Paul Kennedy ). RIP John O’Quinn. A great lawyer and, like many great lawyers, not without personal demons ( Rick O’Casey, Houston Chronicle ). Memo from Pat Lykos to Harris County prosecutors: if you violate ...
  1 week ago

• Franken Amendment and More Important Things Than Rape, Again

  
  Fannie's Room — Authority: 421
  (Trigger warning- this post contains descriptions of sexual assault) Many things, we learn all the time, are more important than a man raping a woman, girl, man, or boy. Just a few of these things are sports careers , movies , and the Catholic Churchs literal patriarchy . A man putting his dick in whomever he ...
  1 week ago

• The Mixed Martial Arts Law Niche

  
  Chuck Newton — Authority: 417
  The people at LexBlog have a right to be proud of and highlight David Nelmark .  They blogged about his blog Mixed Martial Arts Law Blog .  After all, LexBlog designed and set up the blog for David Nelmark and his law firm, Belin McCormick . Now, I do not have to be enthused by David Nelmarks Mixed Martial ...
  2 weeks ago

• Free Download: AttorneySync’s Guide To Guest Blogging For Lawyers

  
  AttorneySync Blog — Authority: 462
  AttorneySync is excited to be releasing a new guide today, AttorneySync’s Guide To Guest Blogging For Lawyers . Just like newspapers and magazines have “guest-authors” or “guest-contributors”, blawgs have guest-blawggers. But finding good guest-blawggers and becoming a good guest-blawgger yourself, can be ...
  2 weeks ago

• I’m Not Sure What to Think About . . .

  
  Defending People — Authority: 568
  . . . Houston criminal defense lawyer Cole Brooks’s new blog . I’m glad to see another Houston criminal defense lawyer jump into the practical blawgosphere (even if he isn’t a member of HCCLA . . . hint, hint), and Cole’s blog isn’t blatant “I’m great! hire me!” marketing, but so far it’s heavy on ...
  3 weeks ago

• Structured Settlements 4Real cracks Avvo Legal Top 50

  
  Structured Settlements 4Real: What's Real in the Structured Settlements, Settlement Planning, Settlement Consulting and Litigation Recovery Management Space? — Authority: 131
  As of October 18, 2009 Structured Settlements 4Real has broken the Top 50 of legal subject matter blogs tracked by Avvo.com
  3 weeks ago

• The Jew With a Gun Next Door

  
  Defending People — Authority: 568
  A couple of years ago (!) I wrote about mapping the blogosphere as a metaphorical space, with proximity measured by commonality of interest as represented by mutual links. Today New York criminal defense lawyer Scott Greenfield has a nice profile today of one of our virtual neighbors, Minneapolis renaissance man ...
  3 weeks ago

• Blawg Review #234

  
  Settle It Now Negotiation Blog — Authority: 559
  Sociologist Elise Boulding has said that we live in a “200 year present,” a “social space which reaches into the past and into the future” -- a space in which “we can move around directly in our own lives and indirectly by touching the lives of the young and old around us.”  Miall, Ramsbotham and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fucked Up Priorities of 30 Republican Doods

  
  Fannie's Room — Authority: 421
  Earlier this year, Senator Al Franken proposed an amendment that would prohibit defense contracts going to companies that required employees to sign away their right to sue. The amendment stems from the case of Jamie Leigh Jones , who a group of men allegedly gang-raped in Iraq and then locked in a crate to ...
  3 weeks ago

• 5 Things To Consider Before You Invest In A New Legal Website Or Blog

  
  AttorneySync Blog — Authority: 462
  I got a lot of positive responses regarding a previous post I wrote called “A Law Firm Website Done Right – A Real World Example” .  I want to follow it up with a list of 5 things to consider PRIOR to investing and creating a new website or blog for your law firm. 1. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – ...
  8 weeks ago

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