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WSJ cuts lead Law Blog reporter

By Mark Obbie

The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog lost its primary writer to newspaper-wide staff cuts. Dan Slater posted a brief goodbye yesterday, and I confirmed that he was the one staff sacrifice that the Journal's law group was told to make earlier this month. Slater, a former practicing lawyer, joined the blog a little over a year ago from The Deal newspaper. He was the Law Blog's second staff writer since its launch in January 2006. Legal editor Ashby Jones, another Deal veteran who runs the page that hosts the Law Blog, now absorbs the role of primary blogger, joined now and then by Journal and Dow Jones writers.Slater's departure is legal journalism's loss. He contributed original reporting (something not many bloggers can claim) and smart writing to the coverage of law from a business perspective. It's hard to imagine the blog will host nearly as much original material without a dedicated writer.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on February 21, 2009 (boomark / email).