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Last week, I got an email directly from the ABA Journal asking me, as a respected blawger, or some such salutation that made me feel like I am a card-carrying member of the blawger-hood (as well as all tingly and validated inside), to fill out a form and tell them about my favorite blawgs - for consideration to be included in the ABA Journal's 2010 Blawg 100 Amici (fancy talk for its annual 100 best legal blogs list). I was like, "Oh, yay, maybe Practical Paralegalism's a contender," until I read the part where it says "that you read regularly and think other lawyers should know about." [emphasis added] I immediately felt a little less tingly and not quite as validated at that point.

Well, clearly I am not a lawyer and don't even aspire to play one on TV, but I am a blawger, and the ABA Journal wants my opinion, and some lawyers and many other kinds of legal professionals (plus a few stalkers and some people in jail) DO read Practical Paralegalism, so why shouldn't it get at least a shoutout from somebody for inclusion in the 100 best legal blogs this year? You know, just to mix things up?

Anyhoo, they were pretty darned clear that it is incredibly tacky to nominate your own blawg. And I'm not so much asking even one of my lovely, loyal readers (just one!) to nominate Practical Paralegalism for inclusion, as I am asking you to think about your favorite blawgs (a/k/a law blogs) written by people who do not have JD behind their names, but who spend as much, if not more time, with actual JDs than their own spouses do.

Stand up for the little people, or in this case, the little blawgers who aren't JDs but make JDs look good every day, and fill out the short and sweet nomination form and tell the ABA Journal why you like those blawgs a whole lot and read them every day.

Because we are blawgers, too. Hear us roar.

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