Legal Commentary

The Civil Rights Act, 1964

Posted on July 02, 2012
Blawg Review #324 at the law blog of Texas attorney Paul Kennedy, The Defense Rests, marks this day in 1964 when Lyndon Baines Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ending segregation in the United States, a signature piece of his administration's Great Society legislation...

Blawg Review, Jubilee Special

Posted on June 04, 2012
From his duck blind on the banks of the Thames, Charon QC watched as Her Majesty's barge and a flotilla of a thousand lesser vessels paraded before an adoring public out in the rain to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's first sixty years.Quite coincidentally with the Royal Jubilee celebrations, perhaps having something to do with the Olympics, our friend Charon QC launched a hundred links to British law blogs this past week in an unprecedented show of patriotism--UK Blawg Review #10 in four impressive blog posts!UK Blawg Review #10 ? Part 1UK Blawg Review #10 ? Part 2UK Blawg Review #10 ? Part 3UK Blawg Review #10 ? Part 4Charon QC is a master of the Blawg Review genre, this carnival of law blogs, having hosted a half-dozen or so previous presentations each of which is worth your attention and review...

Skull & Bones #322

Posted on May 21, 2012
Blawg Review #322, inspired by Skull & Bones, is hosted by the imaginative Kevin A. Thompson at Cyberlaw Central. Everyone knows about Kevin's blog; fewer know much at all about the secret society known as Skull & Bones. So, first, a little backgrounder...

Blawg Review on Facebook!

Posted on May 14, 2012
If you know all about Dave! (that's Dave with an exclamation point) you know that he's been Simpsonized. He's a bona fide comic character! Dave! had aleady hosted four unique presentations of Blawg Review, a clever chart format showing his programming skills, a back-to-school special while he was a law student, a bar exam nail-biter when he knew the feeling, and a flashback to the early days of the worldwide web...

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More Than A Woman

Posted on May 07, 2012
Girlfriends of the Court, Melissa and Kate, on Amicae Curiae present this week's Blawg Review #320 to mark the 600th birthday of Joan of Arc and the anniversary of the Seige of Orleans. Opening for the ladies in Australia are the incomparable Bee Gees!

Canajun, eh?

Posted on April 30, 2012
On this day, the bicentennial of statehood for Louisiana, one might wonder why not enlist a Cajun blogger to host Blawg Review #319. Instead, we've got this Canajun trial warrior to remind us that this day historically marks the Louisiana Purchase. How so? As most Americans know, the Louisiana Purchase encompassed all or parts of fifteen current states and small parts of what is now two provinces--few Canadians are aware of that! But what about the French and the British? Napoleon Bonaparte, upon completion of the agreement stated, "This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride...

Make It Count

Posted on April 23, 2012
Dan Hull @Whataboutparis, inspired by Shakespeare, inadvertently channels Hunter S. Thompson in this week's Blawg Review #318.My name is Dan Hull. I practice law to (1) make money, (2) ensure that every day will be different than the one before, (3) to use everything I have practicing law so I can feel alive, (4) to serve sophisticated purchasers of legal services who "get it"--corporate clients with in-house counsel normally represented by much larger firms--and to put them first, and (5) treat my law practice and firm and as not just a shop but also as a laboratory for new ideas...

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Posted on April 16, 2012
Mark Bennett hosts Blawg Review #317 on his blog, Defending People, to commemorate this date in 1963 when Martin Luther King Jr wrote his Letter from Birmingham Jail. That letter is reproduced in full in this week's Blawg Review, as Bennett says, it's worth it...

Arranging Deck Chairs

Posted on April 15, 2012
As I toured the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, this weekend on the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, along with many others I wondered what it must have been like for those passengers and what I'd have done that night...

Blawg Review of the Year

Posted on April 06, 2012
Blawg Review of the Year 2011 Blawg Review of the Year 2010 Blawg Review of the Year 2009 Blawg Review of the Year 2008 Blawg Review of the Year 2007 Blawg Review of the Year 2006 Blawg Review of the Year 2005

You Can't Fool an Old Fool

Posted on April 02, 2012
Eric Turkewitz, New York Personal Injury Lawyer and perennial prankster, went to great lengths this year with another of his well-conceived hoaxes, a bit late for the annual April Fools Day Blawg Review by George Wallace. Well, actually, Eric's intricately planned hoax was timed to trail the news of April Fools Day shenanigans, being released to the interwebs by Turk and a cadre of collaborators late on Sunday evening...

The History of April Fools Day

Posted on April 01, 2012
April Fools Day has a storied history on Blawg Review, too, always told on the personal and cultural web journal of lawyer George M. Wallace, a fool in the forest.Every year since the inception of Blawg Review, George has treated everyone interested in law to a carnival of law blogs in a serious manner on his insurance law blog, Declarations and Exclusions, together with a bonus edition on April Fools Day, on a fool in the forest...

Where's Blawg Review?

Posted on September 05, 2011
The sun hasn't set on Blawg Review, but we've been traveling these past few weeks, and not just to law conferences. If you're wondering, by the way, where's Ed? Blawg Review will be back soon; the peripatetic editor, maybe not.

LawLawpalooza!!!

Posted on August 08, 2011
Fitz and the Tantrums might be the name of a law blog, but no; it's the name of a hot new band that performed its brand of soul-influenced indie pop this weekend in Chicago at Lollapalooza 2011. Sarah Randag of the ABA Journal was all over it, and brings us her report in this week's Blawg Review #314 she calls LawLawpalooza!

Coming Soon, ABA Journal

Posted on August 02, 2011
Molly McDonough and Sarah Randag host Blawg Review #314 next in the ABA Journal during the ABA Annual Meeting 2011 in Toronto. What's that? The American Bar Association is holding its annual meeting in Canada? Has Ontario joined the Union? Did the United States invade the Great White North and take it over without a shot being fired? Wait, wait...

Keep It Simple

Posted on August 01, 2011
Stephen Albainy-Jenei at Patent Baristas hosts his fifth carnival of law bloggers, Blawg Review #313, riffing off Keb Mo's Keep It Simple. It's a laid-back Blawg Review; thoroughly enjoyable.Today is also Emancipation Day. The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 ended slavery in the British Empire, August 1, 1834, which is remembered in the colonies with various holidays and celebrations, like Caribana Caribbean Carnival in Toronto...

Blawg Review #312

Posted on July 18, 2011
Happy 93rd Birthday, Madiba. Today is Mandela Day, in honor of the birthday of Nelson Mandela, often called Madiba, an honorific, his clan name.Mandela needs no introduction to our readers. As a lawyer he led an exemplary life, 27 years of which he spent in prison for his principled political activism for the causes of freedom and justice for all in his homeland of South Africa...

Remembering Joel Rosenberg

Posted on June 06, 2011
We remember Joel Rosenberg as a champion for justice in an intolerant world, the host of Blawg Review #238, which is this week's Blawg Review in his memory. It was an honor to have known the man, whom I had the pleasure to meet in real life. He will be missed...

Blawg Review #309

Posted on May 02, 2011
O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. ~Psalm 119:97On May 2, 1611, four hundred years to the day, the King James Bible was published for the first time in London, England.The original printing of the Authorized Version was published by Robert Barker, the King's Printer, in 1611 as a complete folio Bible...

This Too Shall Pass

Posted on April 25, 2011
This too shall pass for a Blawg Review, an eclectic collection of bits and pieces of the blawgosphere linked together as if by Rube Goldberg.

Lone Star Blawg Review

Posted on April 21, 2011
Houston attorney Paul Kennedy hosts Blawg Review #307 at The Defense Rests to commemorate Sam Houston's defeat of Santa Anna in the Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day Harris County, Texas, which was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution...

Blawg Review #306

Posted on April 11, 2011
Blawg Review turns six, today. What did you expect? Fireworks?On April 11, 2005, the first issue of Blawg Review was hosted by Evan Schaeffer on the Legal Underground. Six years later, a growing number of lawyers new to blogging are asking, "What is Blawg Review?Blawg Review is the blog carnival for everyone interested in law...

Adieu

Posted on April 01, 2011
Blawg Review #305 is hosted by a fool in the forest. Being the last waltz for Blawg Review, as it were, this is dedicated to all those who have hosted the carnival of law blogs during the past six years. Adieu.

Blawg Review Goes Nukular

Posted on March 27, 2011
George Wallace, a lawyer who blogs on Declarations and Exclusions about News and Comments on California Insurance Law, the Politics of Insurance, and Other Risky Business hosts Blawg Review #304 on a very serious subjectGeorge is, perhaps, better known in the blogosphere for his more humorous personal blog, a fool in the forest, so it's a surprise that he resisted including this...

Hosting Blawg Review Next

Posted on March 25, 2011
We don't just let anybody host Blawg Review, you know -- the trick is to get the right host for each specific date.George Wallace, a lawyer who writes about insurance law on Declarations and Exclusions and blogs about his personal interests on a fool in the forest, (an excellent host for April Fool's Day) would not have been the best host for this week's Blawg Review #303...

Blawg Review #303

Posted on March 21, 2011
The peaceful march resulted in the death of 17 unarmed civilians at the hands of the Insular Police, in addition to some 235 wounded civilians, including women and children.Where the hell did this take place? Tunisia? Egypt? Bahrain? Libya?The Ponce Massacre is a violent chapter in the political history of Puerto Rico...

Where's My Pie?

Posted on March 14, 2011
pls clarify if it's Pi Day, or is it Pie Day? Blawg Review #302 has the answer to the question, "What is Pi? Now, does anyone have the answer to that other question that seems always to be on the minds of real lawyers who blog, "Where's my pie?"

We Are The World

Posted on March 07, 2011
"We Are the World" a song and charity single originally recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa was released on this date, March 7, in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian for the album We Are the World...

Can We Get Together?

Posted on March 01, 2011
Tonight's my last night in Puerto Rico, Daddy Yankee fans, and then I'm off to New York City where, if I'm lucky, Greenfield will have the limo sent to meet me at the airport. One night only, but that's just the beginning of this whirlwind tour. Next, we're off to San Francisco for a meetup with Bay Area Bloggers at Harry's Bar on Saturday, March 5th where we'll announce the award for Blawg Review of the Year 2010 at 7 pm...

Blawg Review #300

Posted on February 27, 2011
The Battle for Blawg Review of the YearLike the movie business, with its Academy Awards, the business of blog reviewing is highly competitive. The rewards are immeasurable. It's not about money; lawyers have easier ways to make a buck. No, it's about writing some epic piece, an incomparable Blawg Review, that will leave adversaries in awe and ensure the continuing loyalty of a small army of followers...

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