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Blawg Review Is For You Too
Posted on November 20, 2009Blawg Review #239 at this blog about Human Rights in Ireland is sure to be as passionate as it is entertaining, and will include surprise performances by superstars born in the USA.It's not too late to get in on this -- still haven't found what I'm looking for...
Go ahead. Make my day.
Posted on November 17, 2009The National Rifle Association of America, or NRA, is an American non-partisan, non-profit organization which lists as its goals the protection of the Second Amendment of the United States Bill of Rights and the promotion of firearm ownership rights as well as marksmanship, firearm safety, and the protection of hunting and self-defense in the United States...
A Blawg Review Review
Posted on November 11, 2009by Charon QCBlawg Review #237 ? Christian Metcalfe of Property Law blog?Today?s single most important political principle, the right to live in a participatory democracy, comes down to us not from the slave-owning societies of Athens and Rome, or from the pleasant estates in France where Rousseau and Montaigne envisioned the ?general will?, but from buff-coated and blood-stained English soldiers and tradesmen...
Bonfire Night @blawgreview
Posted on November 05, 2009Remember, remember the Fifth of November...quoting Scott Leviant's Blawg Review #221So I promised that I wouldn?t dwell on ?that blawger,? the author of Charon QC and notorious host of several Blawg Reviews. But before I direct your attention to the best (or not necessarily so) of the blawgosphere over the last week, there is something I want to talk about first: Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Bonfire Night...
Halloween Blawg Review
Posted on November 02, 2009I don't know if Eric Turkewitz remembers me suggesting he use this one of Hugh MacLeod's Gaping Void cartoons on the back of a business card for his "blog card". This week, Eric tries to find happiness hosting his third Blawg Review, this time with a Halloween theme...
Flickr Tweet, Wascally Wabbit
Posted on October 30, 2009RT @infobunny Why does no one call me pumpkin?Blawg Review #236 hosted by Eric Turkewitz should be a real treat.
Open Invitation, Niki Black
Posted on October 25, 2009Who is Nicole Black, what does she do, and why are we looking forward to her hosting Blawg Review? I met Niki Black recently in New York City, where we shared at table over lunch at a social media conference at the Harvard Club. If ever you get the chance to meet Niki Black in person, not just on Twitter @nikiblack, you'll be glad you did...
Blawg Review Hosts @Twitter
Posted on October 23, 2009You can follow many of the hosts of Blawg Review on Twitter.Evan Schaeffer @evanshaeff Ron Coleman @roncoleman Gordon Smith @gs_ Jeremy Richey @jeremyrichey Mike Cernovich @Cerno Evan Brown @internetcases Al Nye @AlanNye Kevin Heller @kevinhell George Lenard @employmentblawg Enrico Schaefer @Enrico1999 Monica Bay @commonscold Stephen Albainy-Jenei @patentbaristas Carolyn Elefant @carolynelefant Dave Gulbransen @dgulbran Tom Mighell @tommighell Craig Williams @jcraigwilliams Denise Howell @dhowell Andrew Raff @andrewraff Walter Olson @overlawyered Douglas Sorocco @douglassorocco Matt Buchanan @jmattbuchanan Steve Nipper @nipper Colin Samuels @colinsamuels John Wallbillich @wiredgc Bruce MacEwen @BruceMacEwen Anita Campbell @SmallBizTrends Kevin Thompson @cyberlaw Diane Levin @dianelevin Marty Schwimmer @mschwimmer Scott Greenfield @scottgreenfield Charlie Green @CharlesHGreen Adrian Dayton @adriandayton Tom Colson @tomcolson David Lat @davidlat Kevin O'Keefe @kevinokeefe Geeklawyer @Geeklawyer Rush Nigut @RushNigut CharonQC @Charonqc Kael Garvey @legallyunbound Vickie Pynchon @vpynchon Elie Mystal @ElieNYC Duncan Bucknell @DuncanBucknell Tim Kevan @babybarista David Harlow @healthblawg Dave Donoghue @rdd Anne Reed @annereed Dan Harris @danharris Ernest Svenson @ernieattorney Ray Ward @minorwisdom Cathy Gellis @CathyGellis Gideon @gideonstrumpet Susan Cartier Liebel @SCartierLiebel Popehat @Popehat Jeremy Blachman @jeremyblachman Sherrie Sisk @SherrieSisk Patrick Lamb @ValoremLamb Andrew Flusche @aflusche Brett Trout @BrettTrout Connie Crosby @conniecrosby Jamie Spencer @jamieinaustin Jillian Weiss @drjilliantweiss Arnie Herz @ArnieHerz Barry Barnett @blawgletter Daithí Mac Síthigh @macsithighThis list is a "work in progress" that will be updated on an ongoing basis...
I Blame Drew's Cancer
Posted on October 21, 2009That's right, I blame Drew's cancer for too many tweets!
Vickie Pynchon Outdoes Herself
Posted on October 19, 2009Hosts of Blawg Review know how much Vickie Pynchon contributes to these presentations every week, as a "sherpa guide" helpfully providing recommendations of some of the best law blog posts. This week, our Blawg Review Sherpa Victoria Pynchon really outdoes herself with Blawg Review #234, a detailed look at the "200 year present" that marks conflict resolution week...
Emperor Norton
Posted on October 12, 2009"Everybody understands Mickey Mouse. Few understand Hermann Hesse. Hardly anybody understands Einstein. And nobody understands Emperor Norton." - Malaclypse the Younger, K.S.C.Check out this week's Blawg Review #233 hosted by the anonymous bloggers at Popehat, who get it.
JetBlue All-You-Can-Jet
Posted on October 09, 2009Leaving Las Vegas, boarding my 22nd flight on JetBlue's All-You-Can-Jet Pass. If you're thinking that's a lot of domestic air miles traveled this past month, you're right. Blawg Review's editor put this opportunity to good use, connecting with many hosts, some famous, some infamous, and one anonymous -- meetups and tweetups across the country...
Teach Your Children Well
Posted on October 05, 2009Blawg Review #232 is hosted by Susan Cartier Liebel at Solo Practice University on World Teachers' Day. Held annually on October 5th since 1994, World Teachers' Day commemorates teachers? organisations worldwide. Its aim is to mobilise support for teachers and to ensure that the needs of future generations will continue to be met by teachers...
I'm in Las Vegas, Bitch
Posted on September 28, 2009Blawg Review #231 is Legally Unbound in Las Vegas, and the editor of Blawg Review is in town to find out what the hell is going on here!
Blawg Review Awards
Posted on September 17, 2009Colin Samuels was going to thank everyone for honoring him with another Blawg Review of the Year Award when someone grabbed the microphone... Hopefully, the ensuing controversy in the blogosphere and the twitterverse will be behind us by the time Colin and Mike take the stage for Blawg Review #330, a duet.
Digital Nomads Love ExOfficio
Posted on September 08, 2009Digital Nomads like the editor of Blawg Review travel will all the latest tech tools and toys, an iPhone 3G and a BlackBerry Bold, and a Netbook on steroids, the Acer Aspire 1410 running Windows Vista with 3 Gigs of Ram on an Intel Centrino chip. Tethering the Acer to the BlackBerry with virtually unlimited data plan liberates the Digital Nomad from wifi...
The Adventure Begins Today
Posted on September 06, 2009Get your motor runnin'Head out on the highwayLookin' for adventureAnd whatever comes our wayToday marks the first day of the Blawg Review Bucket List tour, beginning with a meetup with Tom Colson, a patent attorney and CEO of IP.com Inc. and host of Blawg Review #217, a Father's Day presentation...
Simple is the New Complex
Posted on September 03, 2009by Colin Samuels, at Infamy or PraiseThe theme of this week's Blawg Review #227 is themelessness. I know that it's all very meta, but Sheryl Sisk Schelin does us proud with this effort, hosted at her The Inspired Solo site. As the "next guy [who went] all Dante on you" referenced in the third paragraph, let me just say that I for one am appreciative that Shelin's arrested (at least temporarily) our Blawg Review theme arms race...
Sherpa Sabbatical
Posted on September 03, 2009Blawg Review Sherpa Colin Samuels has hung up his chuba. I don't remember when, exactly, Colin took on the heavy lifting around here, guiding novice and expert blawg reviewers alike in their quests to reach new heights with each successsive presentation of the carnival of law blogs...
Bunny Sex & Pink Tape
Posted on August 24, 2009Blawg Review #226 is up at Pink Tape, a blog from the family bar in the UK. It's full of ribald British humour, talk of nudity and the escapades of Geeklawyer but, alas, no mention of Bunny, whose appearance in Blawg Review is long overdue.
Woodstock Remembered
Posted on August 19, 2009Blawg Review #225 reminds us that this week marks the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, which became synonymous with the name Woodstock, a music festival billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music", held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969...
Thanks for the Fish
Posted on August 17, 2009Blawg Review #225 is presented by Seattle Trademark Lawyer Michael Atkins from the Pike Place Market on its 102nd anniversary.
We Will Rock You
Posted on August 17, 2009Blawg Review #145, The Super Bowl Edition.VENI, VIDI, VICI. "I came, I saw, I conquered". Sounds pretty macho, huh? But there's a gentler side to it. First, as a Human Being, and a lawyer, are you prepared to meet the challenges before you? Second, can you think and develop a strategy to survive, prosper and get what you want in life and law? Do you have the right Tools? Third, can you Act? Do you have the sand, the spirit and the moxie for the Arena?JD Hull, February 4, 2008, on What About Clients?YouTube Credit: Beyonce, Pink, Britney and Enrique in a Super Bowl commercial for Pepsi, gladiator style.
What About Paris?
Posted on August 16, 2009Not this trip, but the editor of Blawg Review will visit friends in Europe (London for sure) and maybe Paris will be on the next tour.
Blawg Review Bucket List
Posted on August 15, 2009Think of it as Jack Nicholson in The Bucket List, or Easy Rider, meets Jack Kerouac, On the Road. The editor of Blawg Review is going on a cross-country tour, a quest to discover himself and see America through the eyes of lawyers who blog, as many as possible, starting this September...
I Get Around to Conferences
Posted on August 12, 2009If you're not following @blawgreview on Twitter, you might have missed this tweet:blawgreview #ILTA09 wondering if Ed @blawgreview might meet followers of Blawg Review @ilta09 http://conference.iltanet.orgDave Gulbransen, host of Blawg Review #23, #70 and #122, who recently caught up with the anonymous editor of Blawg Review in Chicago for the IP Business Congress 2009, replied with this tweet:dgulbran @blawgreview Are you a professional conference attendee, or what? :)What can I say? With a nod to the formerly anonymous author of this week's Blawg Review #224 hosted on the Times of London, BabyBarista alter-ego Tim Kevan, who also wrote Why Lawyers Should Surf, let's just say, "I get around...
Hello BabyBarista
Posted on August 09, 2009Blawg Review #224 is written by Tim Kevan, a British barrister and professional writer, indeed, a published author. His first novel, recently published by Bloomsbury, BabyBarista and the Art of War is based on this blog he writes for The Times. He is also the co-author of Why Lawyers Should Surf...
Anonymous Editor Unmasked
Posted on August 08, 2009Twitter outage this week forced the editor of Blawg Review to bust out the old technology to keep in touch with his most demanding followers, while still ensuring anonymity. The bat phone has toll free access throughout the USA and Canada, the UK, Europe, and Southeast Asia, including Australia...
BabyBarista Book Review
Posted on August 06, 2009by Colin SamuelsBabyBarista is hosting Blawg Review #224 and this might be a good time to review his new book, BabyBarista and the Art of War, so our followers get a sense of what to expect from his Blawg Review.I'm often frustrated by book reviews for the simple reason that most tend to avoid answering the question "Is this book worth reading?" I'll not make that mistake in writing about Tim Kevan's BabyBarista and The Art of War...
Donoghue's Carnival of Trust
Posted on August 04, 2009At the Chicago IP Litigation Blog, R. David Donoghue hosts the Carnival of Trust for August 2009 -- a great selection of blog posts about trust, of special interest to professionals involved with intellectual property management, law, and policy.We got together recently in Chicago, where Dave hosted some IP law bloggers at the infamous Billy Goat Tavern...
Blawg Review Caribana
Posted on August 03, 2009Welcome to Blawg Review #223, from Toronto, Canada, where we celebrate multi-cultural diversity, hosting one of North America's largest and most vibrant carnivals, Caribana.It began as the Toronto Caribbean community's salute to Canada's Centennial year...
Invitation to Scott Greenfield
Posted on August 02, 2009Scott,This week's host (one of those law practice coaches) has gone AWOL and can't be found. Doesn't reply to email.Colin Samuels is on holiday with his family (a work/life balance thing) and hasn't sent in any recommendations.Professor Kingsfield refuses to fill in for the slackoisie while he's taking the summer to prepare for another academic year...
King of Pop, McCartney, 222
Posted on July 27, 2009Duncan Bucknell's IP Think Tank hosts Blawg Review #222. Surprisingly, there's nothing in this week's carnival of law blogs about The King of Pop, Sir Paul, and the Right to Reclaim Copyrights. Is Michael Jackson not still dead? You remember Michael Jackson, the inventor?
Litigation Complex?
Posted on July 20, 2009Overlawyered, with Blawg Review #220, to The Complex Litigator, hosting Blawg Review #221; do we know how to segue, or what?
Blawg Review Sherpas
Posted on July 17, 2009Every week, around this time, the host of the upcoming Blawg Review begins the adventure of preparing the next issue of the carnival of law blogs with the help of the Blawg Review Sherpas.Colin Samuels, the undisputed leader in hosting Blawg Review, guides our hosts with pointers to several of the best recent law blog posts of the previous week...
Get Over It
Posted on July 13, 2009The more I think about it ol' Billy was right. Let's kill all the lawyers.Blawg Review #220, by Walter Olson at Overlawyered, the oldest law blog in the blawgosphere. Overlawyered chronicles the high cost of the American legal system. You don't always have to hire a lawyer...
Blawg Review Bizcards
Posted on July 10, 2009Hugh MacLeod is a genius. For about ten years he's been cranking out insightful cartoons on the backs of business cards, publishing them on his blog at gapingvoid.com and generously encouraging his readers to use them, free of charge.We've had some printed up for the Editor of Blawg Review to hand out whenever he meets in person with friends and followers of this wonderful blog carnival for everyone interested in law...
Law Practice, Worst Practices
Posted on July 10, 2009This is disappointing. ABA Drops Tech Columnist After 15 Years Without Even Saying ThanksThe nothing.but.net column in the ABA's Law Practice magazine has been dropped after 15 years. Erik J. Heels, the columnist, finally got the message -- by email.@ErikJHeels says...
Blawg Review has a nose for News!
Posted on July 06, 2009Cathy Gellis hosts Blawg Review #219 at her Statements of Interest blog. Gellis serves up the best of the past week's legal blogging with a healthy dose of rock, pop, and blue-eyed soul, courtesy of her favorite band, Huey Lewis and the News. If this edition of the carnival of legal blogging doesn't score her a bouquet of roses from Huey Lewis, the man has no soul.
On Independence Day
Posted on July 04, 2009America the BeautifulThe Preamble of the Declaration of IndependenceWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness...
This Guy Gets It
Posted on June 30, 2009Ed--Please ask the host to "unlink" WAC? from today's BR. And further please do not use or link to any of WAC?'s content in any future BRs. I would appreciate that. Thanks. DanNow, this email request is purportedly "confidential" (not to be confused with anonymous) but it's rather difficult, really impossible, to accommodate the writer of the email unless everyone who hosts Blawg Review is given notice of his peculiar request, and asking us to ask the host to "unlink" WAC? is probably some sort of implied waiver, anyway...
Blawg Review on Twitter
Posted on June 29, 2009Blawg Review #218 is up on Adrian Dayton's blog about Marketing Strategy and the Law, the Social Media Edition.Seems like everyone is tweeting about Blawg Review. You can read our tweets @blawgreview and follow this week's Blawg Review host Adrian Dayton @adriandayton to find out for yourself why he has almost 20,000 followers...
Not Just Any Father's Day
Posted on June 21, 2009Today, on Father's Day, we'd like to share an emotional tribute to an incredible and inspirational dad, from his equally incredible and inspirational son.My name is Richard E. Hoyt Jr., and I have cerebral palsy. I cannot speak or walk. To write this story, I'm using a computer with special software...
What Fathers Do
Posted on June 16, 2009LOVE STORY (Taylor Swift) meets VIVA LA VIDA (Coldplay)Hi...Jon Schmidt here. This arrangement is dedicated to Sarah, my 7 year old daughter who loves the song Love Story by Taylor Swift. Because of a common rhythm element between the tunes, I decided I could mish/mash the two...
Where is this place?
Posted on June 15, 2009Where is this place? Blawg Review #216 has the answer to this and other questions asked and answered by law bloggers around the world this week.On 13 July, 1985, the American Bar Association returned to this place to renew its pledge of adherence to the principles of the great charter...
Meet the Bloggers @IPBC2009
Posted on June 11, 2009Coming to Chicago for the IP Business Congress? We're getting together to wrap up the conference at the Billy Goat Tavern on Michigan Avenue on Wednesday, June 23rd, at 5 pm 'til they kick us out. Look for the Billy Goat Tavern sign shown in the photo above...
Finding Memo
Posted on June 08, 2009UN Officially Makes June 8 World Oceans DayIn all the hubbub of Earth Day, it's easy to get caught up in land-bound activities and conservation, and forget about the oceans. But here is one announcement that the oceans will particularly be thankful for...
Don't Forget Oceans Day
Posted on June 05, 2009Carolyn Elefant hosts Blawg Review #215 on World Oceans Day. Don't forget to submit your favorite law blog posts, even if not related to Carolyn Elefant's practice of the law of the seas and her deep concern for the oceans of the world, which is evident from reading her posts on this blog...
Charon Promos Blawg Review
Posted on May 28, 2009Charon QC promos Blawg Review with a movie. Hilarious, if you follow @Charonqc and his smokedo program on Twitter.
A Day at the Beach
Posted on May 25, 2009This is not Flag Day; it's Towel Day.In the United States, it's Memorial Day.A Day at the Beach ? Omaha Beach.Blawg Review #213; bring your towel.
Memorial Day Weekend
Posted on May 24, 2009These are the faces of the fallen.Memorial Day 2005 at Crime & FederalismMemorial Day 2006 at Blawg ReviewMemorial Day 2007 at Biker Law BlogMemorial Day 2008 at Patent BaristasCyberlaw Central is hosting Blawg Review #213 on the Monday of Memorial Day weekend this year.
Help Me Remember You
Posted on May 23, 2009Beginning a Memorial Day long weekend with a little country western music by a couple of my favorite Texans, Willie Nelson and Norah Jones, to complement this week's Blawg Review #212 by entertainment IP attorney Tamera Bennett.Tamera is a past chair of the State Bar of Texas Entertainment & Sports Law section, a founding board member of the Women Business Owners of Denton County, and a former adjunct professor at Dallas Baptist University...
Throwing In the Towel
Posted on May 18, 2009Blawg Review #213 is one week from today, on May 25, 2009. Kevin Thompson at Cyberlaw Central says he needs a picture of you with a towel for his theme; who picks these hosts?!
Are You Experienced?
Posted on May 16, 2009In Seattle for the 131st annual meeting of INTA, the International Trademark Association, we're studying the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Apparently, it's not a CLE credit @INTAAM09, although it could be. Tamera Bennett, an entertainment IP attorney who is hosting our Blawg Review #212 next, could teach a CLE credit course on "Trademarks and the Entertainment Industry"...
Seattle Trademarks
Posted on May 15, 2009Looking out my hotel window in Seattle, thinking about trademarks, with the 131st annual meeting of the International Trademark Association just on the horizon, not to mention the next issue of Blawg Review #212 being hosted on Tamera Bennett's law blog with the Create Protect trademark for her legal services, it seemed like a good time to reflect on all the great brands and trademarks associated with this part of the country...
What Is Hip?
Posted on May 11, 2009During his first 100 days as president of the United States, Barack Obama revealed how different he is from all the white men who preceded him in the Oval Office, and the differences run deeper ? in substance and style ? than the color of his skin.Barack Hussein Obama is the nation?s first hip president...
Mothers' Day On Law Blogs
Posted on May 10, 2009Send links to your Mothers' Day posts to editor@blawgreview.com and we'll note them here:The Greatest American Lawyer honors the "Greatest American Mom".Carolyn Elefant's post "The Twenty-First Century Mom Lawyer: A Life Without Seams" featuring Michelle Obama is the perfect segue to this week's Blawg Review #211 based upon the first 100 days of the Obama administration.
Reflecting On Chicago
Posted on May 09, 2009Those who follow @blawgreview on Twitter know that the seldom-photographed Editor of Blawg Review (above in Millennium Park) was in Chicago this week for the InsideCounsel SuperConference.It was great to have the opportunity to meetup with so many interesting lawyers who had traveled across the country for the SuperConference, including several law bloggers who had hosted Blawg Review -- Stephanie West Allen (#114), Scott Greenfield (#170), and Dan Hull (#65 and #145)...
May Fourth Movement
Posted on May 04, 2009About 3,000 delegates from across the country attend a grand gathering on May 4, 2009 in Beijing, to mark the 90th anniversary of the "May Fourth Movement." (Xinhua/Yao Dawei)China marks 90th anniversary of "May Fourth Movement" and Blawg Review #210 is hosted at China Law Blog...
Thinking About Chicago
Posted on May 02, 2009When I first saw Chicago, live, they were Chicago Transit Authority.Their first record (released in April 1969), the eponymous The Chicago Transit Authority, was an audacious debut: a sprawling double album, virtually unheard of for a rookie band (only "Freak Out!" by The Mothers of Invention and "Loosen Up Naturally" by Sons of Champlin, featuring Bill Champlin, who would later become a member of Chicago, preceded it) that included jazzy instrumentals, extended jams featuring Latin percussion, and experimental, feedback-laden guitar abstraction...
InsideCounsel SuperConference
Posted on April 28, 2009If you've been following Blawg Review on Twitter @blawgreview you already know that some of the well-known lawyers who blog, Dan Hull, Scott Greenfield, Patrick Lamb, and Stephanie West Allen, are among the leading lawyers speaking at the Ninth Annual InsideCounsel SuperConference in Chicago next week...
Dance With My Father
Posted on April 27, 2009John M. Hochfelder hosts Blawg Review #209, dedicated to his father, J. Gene Hochfelder, on his birthday.After Dad died, I came across a song that reminds me of some of our time together. You may like it (and you may even know of it): "Dance With My Father" by Luther Vandross...
Earth Week Blawg Review
Posted on April 20, 2009Blawg Review #208 on Green Patent Blog celebrates planet earth, with a special focus on all things green and earthy.
The Ottawa Citizen
Posted on April 13, 2009This week's host of Blawg Review #207 is Jordan Furlong, the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Bar Association?s flagship magazine National, a position he's held for nearly ten years. While he's been there, National has won seven Kenneth R. Wilson Awards for journalistic excellence from the Canadian Business Press and an Investigative Journalism Award from the Canadian Association of Journalists...
Tartan Day Blawg Review
Posted on April 06, 2009May It Please the Court, J. Craig Williams, host of Blawg Review #206 on Tartan Day, has promised to wear a tartan kilt to his law offices this week. If Craig were only 30 years younger, he might just be able to pull it off.
April Fool's Blawg Review
Posted on April 01, 2009Longtime followers of Blawg Review knew it would be coming April 1st -- April Fool's Blawg Review Appendix 2009 by a fool in the forest.Really, you didn't think this was all that George M. Wallace would come up with for Blawg Review #205, did you?Did you see what he did on April 1st in 2006, 2007, and 2008?If this guy doesn't win an Oscar or a Blawg Review of the Year Award, or something, there's no justice!
How To Holst Blawg Review
Posted on March 30, 2009Blawg Review #205 by George M. Wallace goes where no host has gone before.
Sacred Cows
Posted on March 23, 2009Blawg Review #204 is hosted by Elie Mystal, the editor of Above the Law. Not unexpectedly, ATL makes hamburger of the sacred cows of the legal profession. Well done.
High Praise, Indeed
Posted on March 20, 2009Jordan Furlong, "lawyer, editor, blogger, and occasional Jeremiah for the legal profession," has high praise for next week's Blawg Review host at Above the Law.Jordon adds, in conversation on Twitter with @leecomms "Not all the way there, by any means -- but they're on to something, and they've found their editorial voice...
Geeklawyer, Above the Law?
Posted on March 16, 2009Before Geeklawyer, the Prince of Darkness, returns to his coffin in the cellar, with or without a stake through the heart from those who may have been outraged by Blawg Review 203, Charon QC interviewed him about Blawg Review 204 which is about to be hosted by the well known Above The Law tabloid in The States, as Blawg Review returns to a degree of relative sanity...
Humour or Humor?
Posted on March 15, 2009Blawg Review #203 is up at GeekLawyer's blog, celebrating the feast of Bacchanalia. Not everyone's cup of tea, apparently.Lawyers halfway around the world are asking, "Is this supposed to be humor?" From early reviews of Blawg Review #203 in America, where it is still the Lord's Day, it's probably fair to say, if u is in it, it ain't humor...
Blawg Review #200
Posted on February 23, 2009Could this be the end of the line?When we started Blawg Review with the question, "Do you blawg?" in 2005, who would have thought this traveling carnival of law blogs would still be alive 200 weeks later?This week, Darren Rowse at Problogger had an interesting post that got us thinking...
Houston, We Have A Problem
Posted on February 17, 2009Houston criminal defense attorney Mark Bennett's Defending People blog is no longer experiencing technical difficulties. Problem solved. You can now tweet and blog about Blawg Review #199.
Best Crime Blawg Review
Posted on February 16, 2009Criminal defense attorney Mark Bennett hosts Blawg Review #199 at Defending People, the winner of the ABA Journal Blawg 100 award for best crime law blog in 2008.I said it on Twitter, and I'll say it again here, "The next time somebody asks me how to write a great Blawg Review, I swear I'm just going to tell 'em where to go...
Grate, It's Valentine's Day
Posted on February 14, 2009It's not easy getting a girl when you're anonymous.Still, ed@blawgreview was hopeful, finding this email today, that someone wants to be my Valentine.from Khadi James davidlobato@infonegocio.comreply-to khadilove580@hotmail.comto khadilove580@hotmail...
Rush YYZ Blawger Meetup
Posted on February 07, 2009It is always a happy day when...YYZ appears on our luggage tags!And it's a doubly happy day when the anonymous Geeklawyer and the anonymous Editor of Blawg Review find each other, by chance, flying into Toronto at the same time.But we'll have to rush to meet somewhere soon because, in a few days, I'm outa here.
LegalTech New York 2009
Posted on February 03, 2009Blawg Review #197 is hosted on Legal Blog Watch this week by John Bringardner from LegalTech New York, where thousands have gathered at the Hilton New York Hotel for some of the the most important legal technology events of the year.Things got underway, Monday, with a well-attended session on Twitter for the legal community, with @kevinokeefe, @matthomamm, and @chriswinfield on a panel moderated by Incisive Media's @monicabay, the editor of Law Technology News...
Ground Hog Day
Posted on February 02, 2009Happy Ground Hog Day! This year, in Pennsylvania, Punxsutawney Phil will awake to news of the Steelers victory in Super Bowl XLIII last night and, at daybreak, will make his prognostication about the next six weeks of weather based on whether he sees his shadow...
Aussie Aussie Aussie
Posted on January 24, 2009G'Day USA. Australia Week is an important step forward in presenting the modern sophisticated Australian (a.k.a Peter Black) to the world's largest and wealthiest economy.Following this week of celebrating everything Australian in the USA, Blawg Review marks Australia Day, down under, on Peter Black's Freedom to Differ...
MLK Day: A Day of Service
Posted on January 14, 2009MLK Day will be commemorated by the community of law bloggers with a special presentation, as it has in previous years here and here, this year with Blawg Review #195 hosted by Yolanda Young on her blawg, On Being A Black Lawyer.In a recent public service announcement, Michelle Obama said the day of service is timed to coincide with Martin Luther King Day, "a day when we honor a man who lived his life in service to others and showed us what we can accomplish when we stand together...
The Phoenix Has Landed
Posted on January 12, 2009NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has won recognition from Popular Science magazine as an innovation worthy of the publication's "Best of What's New" Grand Award in the aviation and space category.Probing the blogosphere for legal bloggers, Susan Cartier Liebel has collected choice samples of the best of what's innovative on law blogs...
The Lord of Misrule
Posted on January 04, 2009On the 4th of January, he went by water, from Greenwich to London, and landed at the Tower wharf, attended by a number of young knights and gentlemen, with trumpets, bagpipes, and flutes, and a morris dance with a tabret.Ladies and gentlemen, we present CharonQC, the Lord of Misrule, presiding over Blawg Review #193 on Twelfth Night.
Carnival Operators Wanted
Posted on January 02, 2009New opportunities to run your own carnival have been posted in the sidebar of the Blawg Review home page. No experience necessary.
Blawg Review #192
Posted on December 28, 2008It's that time of year again, when we look back at the best of 2008 in the legal blogospshere through the eyes of 51 hosts of Blawg Review, and determine by peer-review which of the year's presentations should be named the Blawg Review of the Year 2008...
Happy Chanukah, Law Blogs
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Mark These Observances
Posted on December 10, 2008Human Rights Day, Bill of Rights Day, and Human Rights WeekA Proclamation by the President of the United States of AmericaThe United States was founded on the principle that government must respect people's rights to speak freely, worship as they choose, and pursue their dreams in liberty...
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Posted on December 08, 2008Let's hear it for Blawg Review #189 by Colin Samuels, a rock star of the legal blogosphere!
Life on the D-list
Posted on December 03, 2008The official rag of the American Bar Association, the ABA Journal, has refined its Blawg 100 list of law blogs to watch. Blawg Review, once regarded as one of "the 100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal," is not on the list...
Thanksgiving Turkey Wits
Posted on November 30, 2008Eric Turkewitz invites the legal blogosphere over for Thanksgiving dinner, and Blawg Review #188.
To Be Thankful For
Posted on November 26, 2008Eric Turkewitz is hosting the next Blawg Review, #188, for those of us who are counting. Followers of Blawg Review will remember last year's close race for Blawg Review of the Year 2007, when Turkewitz's New York Personal Injury Law Blog marathon Blawg Review #134 ran a very close second to Blawg Review #137, based on the final chapter in Dante's trilogy, earning Colin Samuels at Infamy or Praise the coveted award for the third year running...
Legal Beagle
Posted on November 24, 2008In Celebration of the 200th Anniversary of Charles Darwin's Birth and today's Anniversary of The Origin of Species, we recommend Joshua Fruchter's Blawg Review #187 and, for those who are looking for a mini-sabbatical in the middle of this economic downturn, Stanford Alumni's Voyage of the Beagle by Private Jet, A Unique Adventure Inspired by Charles Darwin's Legendary Around-the-World Expedition -- from $59,950...
Lawyers not on Twitter?
Posted on November 16, 2008Blawg Review #186 at the Res Ipsa Blog is following the Twitter War that just broke out in the blawgosphere.David Giacalone a lawyer who writes in haiku verse, not tweets, takes a full post on his weblog f/k/a to knock Twitter and lawyers who tweet, knowing full well some might call him a twit, or worse...
Who will host MLK Day?
Posted on November 15, 2008If you'd like to host an upcoming issue of Blawg Review, whether or not you have a special day in mind, please see the available dates in the sidebar on our home page and check out our hosting guidelines and send us an email to let us know about your blog and your interest in this carnival of law blogs...
Awkward Blogger Meetups
Posted on November 13, 2008British law bloggers have been all atwitter since news leaked that the anonymous editor of Blawg Review might make his way to England for a first chance to get together with Ruthie, Geeklawyer, CharonQC, Justin Patten, Tim Kevan, and Daithí Mac Síthigh...
Lest We Forget The Vets
Posted on November 11, 2008Many in our legal community are veterans, and we take this day to honor all who served, as we have in previous years.Blawg Review #59 was a special presentation for Memorial Day, and we find the thoughts linked there to be equally appropriate to reflect upon this Veterans Day, November 11th, also Remembrance Day in many countries of the British Commonwealth that share the legal traditions of the common law...
Global IP Blawg Review
Posted on November 08, 2008Aussie Duncan Bucknell is hosting Blawg Review #185 next. Obviously, we're in very capable hands.
Text Your Vote
Posted on November 03, 2008Click on the photo for dance music. Photoshop via: Guy Kawasaki, author of Reality Check and evangelist for Alltop.comBlawg Review #184, the election-eve carnival of law blogs, is hosted by Professor Dan Filler and the law profs at The Faculty Lounge...
Write In Candidates
Posted on November 01, 2008Now there's a candidate Bill Clinton could really get behind.If you've written something interesting on your law blog about the upcoming Presidential Election, you might want to send the link to Professor Dan Filler and the law profs at The Faculty Lounge, who are hosting a special election-eve Blawg Review #184...
Yes We Carve
Posted on October 31, 2008Happy Howell-o-ween. The Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin campaigns have gone into "trick or treat" mode in the final days leading up to the Presidential Election next Tuesday. And so have we.For the Presidential Election in 2008, Professor Dan Filler and the law profs at The Faculty Lounge are presenting an election-eve special Blawg Review #184...
California Girls
Posted on October 26, 2008"I wish they all could be California urls," thought Kim Kralowec, who's hosting Blawg Review #183 at The UCL Practitioner blog, from sunny San Francisco.
A Perverted Blawg Review
Posted on October 20, 2008David Gulbransen hosts Blawg Review #182 this week on his blog, Preaching to the Perverted.Preaching to the Perverted is a 1997 British comedy film written and directed by Stuart Urban. Here's the plot of the movie:Henry Harding MP, a British government minister on a moral crusade, hires an inexperienced young computer whizzkid, Peter Emery who works for a Christian computer company called Holy Hardware, to infiltrate the United Kingdom BDSM scene...
Conflict Resolution Day 2008
Posted on October 13, 2008Blawg Review #181 is hosted by Diane Levin on the Mediation Channel to mark Conflict Resolution Day 2008, which is the third Thursday in October.We'd like to take this opportunity to thank Diane for her many contributions to Blawg Review, having now hosted four outstanding presentations -- #43, #94, #130 and #181...
Musical Accompaniment
Posted on October 10, 2008If you find this week's Blawg Review #180 for German-American Day lacking musical accompaniment, we recommend Pachelbel's Canon in D.Although the composer of Canon in D, Johann Pachelbel, was not, himself, a German-American, his son Charles Theodore Pachelbel, a German composer, organist and harpsichordist of the late Baroque era, was one of the first European composers to take up residence in the American colonies, and was, quite possibly, the most famous musical figure in early Charleston, South Carolina...
How Often Do You Want It?
Posted on October 07, 2008On Twitter @SmallBizBee asks, "How often do you like to see new content on the blogs you follow? Twice a day, everyday, 5 times a week, etc."
Wiener Takes All
Posted on October 05, 2008Scouring the Google for an image that captures the spirit of the carnival of law blogs on German-American Day, your editor could find none better than this movie poster for the dogumentary Wiener Takes All.Contemporaneously with the publication of this week's Blawg Review at midnight in Germany, Americans at Oktoberfest NW in Seattle gather for the running of the dachshunds...
German-American Day
Posted on October 01, 2008The Germans are coming! The Germans are coming! Oh wait, they?ve already been here in Philadelphia for 325 years. Not to worry. Seems to be working out well so far. It?s that time of year again ? the German Society will be hosting a full slate of activities surrounding German-American Weekend October 1-6, 2008...
Flash of Genius Review
Posted on September 29, 2008This week's presentation of Blawg Review is a treasure trove of Intellectual Property news and opinion, including something for everyone, patents, trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, and cyber law.Blawg Review #179 is being hosted on Securing Innovation, the business blog of IP...
Blawg Review on IP Blog
Posted on September 24, 2008Next week, on Monday, September 29, 2008, Blawg Review #179 will be hosted on Securing Innovation, the business blog of IP.com and, as those familiar with Blawg Review might anticipate, they plan to create a special theme for that presentation, which will make perfect sense to anyone interested in patents, trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, innovation management, and intellectual property law and policy...
Blawg Review OneWebDay
Posted on September 22, 2008Welcome to OneWebDay at Blawg Review.Blawg Review #178 is being hosted today at Freedom to Differ, the law blog of Peter Black, a lecturer at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Peter?s research interests focus on legal issues relating to the regulation of the media and the internet...
Blawg Review on Twitter
Posted on September 20, 2008Peter Black, who hosted Blawg Review #85 and #136 is back again -- this year on One Web Day.Blawg Review #178 will coincide with One Web Day, so Peter says he plans to showcase an exciting and emerging part of the web by delivering Blawg Review #178 in two ways - on Freedom to Differ, his law blog, and via Twitter...
It's Talk Like A Pirate Day
Posted on September 19, 2008As a boy, George M. Wallace always wanted to talk like a pirate; in adulthood, he became an insurance lawyer. Click on the graphic above to see his excellent presentation of Blawg Review #153. Arrgh!
Monica Bay Campaigns
Posted on September 18, 2008Monica Bay is campaigning for gender equality in the legal workplace and for equal pay for work of equal value. On her blog and in an email to her extensive list of contacts in the legal community, Mon rails against the injustice.The August census bureau reports that women trial support (paralegals, lit support) are making about 7% less than their male peers...
Back to Business
Posted on September 12, 2008Anita Campbell, a former GC, is hosting the next Blawg Review #177 at her award-winning business blog, Small Business Trends.This is the third year that Anita has hosted our weekly review of the best of the legal blogosphere on the Small Business Trends blog, so we expect nothing less than she delivered in Blawg Review #40 and #126...
International Literacy Day
Posted on September 08, 2008It's International Literacy Day, so Blawg Review #176 is hosted this week on Legal Literacy, the personal blog of Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Associate General Counsel and national counsel for trademark enforcement for a Fortune 500 company. [Hat Tip: Zara Larsson]
5 Blogs & 5 Blawgers
Posted on September 02, 2008Blog Day has inspired us to start another great meme for law bloggers.The idea is to post links to five great blogs (other than law blogs) on your blawg and tag five of your favorite blawgers to do the same under the post title "5 Blogs & 5 Blawgers"...
Beer Nuts
Posted on September 01, 2008Austin DWI Lawyer Jamie Spencer hosts Blawg Review #175 today as a reminder, this Labor Day weekend, not to drink and drive.Check out Blawg Review #175 for more good stuff like that YouTube video found on QuizLaw this week.
Blog Day
Posted on August 31, 2008Peter Black, who hosted Blawg Review #85 and #136 at Freedom to Differ (and who's hosting again in a couple of weeks), reminds us what Blog Day is all about. By the way, every Monday is blawg day here at Blawg Review.
Lean, Clean, No Theme
Posted on August 29, 2008Cross-posted from Colin Samuels' Infamy or PraiseD. Todd Smith hosts this week's Blawg Review #174 at his Texas Appellate Law Blog. Smith's review is a throwback of sorts to the early days of Blawg Review when hosts simply collected the best legal blogging of the previous week without packaging it (or, as in the cases of my own Blawg Reviews, overpackaging it) in a themed presentation...
Promising Rookie Signed
Posted on August 18, 2008Omar Ha-Redeye, founder of the Law Is Cool blog, has been signed by Slaw.ca, whose starting lineup includes heavy-hitters Simon Chester and Connie Crosby.Rumours in the Toronto dugout lead us to suspect that the idea of signing this promising "free agent" followed talks with Slaw management after this memorable ballgame...
Citius, Altius, Fortius
Posted on August 11, 2008As many who are following the 2008 Beijing Olympics know, these three Latin words meaning "Swifter, Higher, Stronger" are the motto of the Olympics. The motto was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin on the creation of the International Olympic Committee in 1894...
Blawg Review in the News
Posted on August 05, 2008Blog links to this week's presentation of Blawg Review #171 got picked up on Google News.Blawg Review: IP Virgin EditionPatent Baristas, OH - 12 hours agoPynchon states that if intellectual property had a theme song it would have to be ?Like a Virgin...
Link Whore!
Posted on August 04, 2008Blawg Review #171 with a "virgin" theme is the best presentation ever by a link whore. A lot of work went into Blawg Review #171 on the IP ADR Blog, so please link to it, especially if you're mentioned in this week's issue of Blawg Review.
Blawg Review Virgins
Posted on July 29, 2008Can you identify who are Blawg Review virgins in the lineup above?Stephanie West Allen hosted Blawg Review #114.Diane Levin hosted #43, #94 and #130.Victoria Pynchon and Gini Nelson are Blawg Review virgins.Victoria Pynchon of Settle It Now and The IP ADR Blog confesses to being a Blawg Review virgin:Though we've been reading Blawg Review since we put up our first tentative post on blogger (here!) in June of 2006, as hosts, we're Blawg Review virgins...
Simple Justice, Due Process
Posted on July 28, 2008Justice delayed is justice denied, so we weren't at all surprised when New York Criminal Defense Attorney Scott Greenfield duly processed his Blawg Review #170 on Simple Justice a day early!
Feeling the link love?
Posted on July 24, 2008Just when I was getting depressed about the dearth of link love for Blawg Review, Hugh MacLeod put it all into perspective.
The Trusted Advisor Review
Posted on July 23, 2008Recently, Stephanie West Allen asked me if there is one book I'd recommend for new lawyers that she might include in the regular column, Reading Minds, she edits for the American Bar Association. My recommendation, along with two others, can be read in the latest issue of the ABA's Law Practice Magazine...
If You Like It, Link It
Posted on July 22, 2008If you like the current issue of Blawg Review and you think your blog readers might find something interesting in it for them, please, for everyone's sake, don't hesitate to link to it.Our helpful Blawg Review Sherpa, Colin Samuels, shows the way. Just whisper about it...
They're Working On It
Posted on July 21, 2008Somewhere in California, the brand strategists at Whisper are busy "working" on Blawg Review #169. Given the time zone and the other things they have to work on, we can't be sure when it will be done.Well, it's done well. Grok this!
We were on a break!
Posted on July 20, 2008Peter Black at Freedom to Differ has been on hiatus for six weeks, but he's back.Doug Sorocco and all the folks in Phosita-land have just published their first post since April 7, 2008 to tell us they're taking a break.I knew it!
Duke Ellington Blawg Review
Posted on July 16, 2008Sonia Simone has penned a wonderful piece at Copyblogger that might well be styled "The Duke Ellington Guide to a Blawg Review that Swings". Here's a few introductory bars, if you want to hum along.Don?t mean a thing if it ain?t got that swing . . .Whenever you study a creative form like copywriting, you spend a lot of time on technique...
Rush to Blawg Review #168
Posted on July 14, 2008Today is Bastille Day, and if this week's host of Blawg Review #168, Jeffrey Mehalic at the West Virginia Business Litigation blog, had reminded us in advance, we might have swapped his hosting date with French-Law.net, which hosted Blawg Review #165...
Major League Blawger Meetup
Posted on July 08, 2008Who wants to join me? I've got four excellent tickets to the baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre in Toronto this Friday night, July 11, 2008.
Star Spangled Blawg Review
Posted on July 07, 2008American law bloggers revolted from the British barrister's linking to images of naked women in last week's Blawg Review #166.Since this week's Blawg Review #167 follows the Independence Day weekend holiday in the United States, our host Jonathan Frieden features law blogs from all 50 States represented by the stars on the flag of the United States of America, Old Glory...
Declaration of Independence
Posted on July 04, 2008Let's have a happy and thoughtful 4th of July weekend, and come back next week for Blawg Review #167 by Jonathan Frieden. I think he's got something special planned for this occasion.
Canada Rocks London
Posted on July 01, 2008Blawg Review #166 is up at Geeklawyer's blog; a day late and a pound light in this editor's view. As expected by many, it's a "wild-card review full of inappropriate vulgarity, drunken foul mouthed ranting and incendiary content: i.e. a normal Geeklawyer posting...
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly?
Posted on June 30, 2008Geeklawyer has threatened to run rampage through the next Blawg Review sometime today. Please take the opportunity, whilst he gets his shit together, to enjoy this opening theme.Music for Geeklawyer's Blawg Review #166 -- theme from "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain...
Carla Bruni On French Law
Posted on June 24, 2008Blawg Review #165 on French-law.net by Nicolas Jondet includes this mention of Carla Bruni with a link to a law professor's blog:Interestingly, Nicolas Sarkozy, France?s President also has had to deal with controversial remarks, albeit of a different nature (about drugs) and in a different forum (a pop album), made by his wife Carla Bruni...
LexMonitor Law Blog Review
Posted on June 22, 2008LexMonitor is a free daily review of law blogs and journals highlighting prominent legal discussion as well as the lawyers and other professionals participating in this conversation."Pulling from nearly 2,000 sources and 5,000 authors, LexMonitor will hopefully shine a light on the ongoing conversation among thought leaders in the law for the benefit of the legal profession and the public at large," says Kevin O'Keefe of LexBlog, whose team of law blog specialists has developed this innovative website...
Solo by Choice
Posted on June 20, 2008On June 20th in 2005, we were reading Blawg Review #11 by Al Nye the Lawyer Guy. Today, we're reading his review of Solo By Choice: How to Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be, a new book by Carolyn Elefant, who hosted Blawg Review #21 on her popular law blog for solos, My Shingle...
Joyce to the World
Posted on June 16, 2008June 16th is BLOOMSDAY, the day in 1904 on which all the action of James Joyce?s novel Ulysses takes place. It is celebrated every year on 16th June by Joyceans all over the world.In Dublin, where the novel is set, Bloomsday celebrations go on for a week from the 9th to the 16th June, with most of the attention on the day itself...
Yes, We Can
Posted on June 12, 2008The election eve party will be at The Faculty Lounge, where they're hosting Blawg Review on November 3, 2008. Funk the vote!
Want More Partner Income?
Posted on June 09, 2008Well, you've come to the right place! Blawg Review #163 is hosted this week by Brian Ritchey, Chief Contributing Editor for the law blog More Partner Income. He is also the Editor-In-Chief for the Managing Partner Advocate and the LexisNexis Law Firm Economic Survey...
Ruthie Does Geeklawyer
Posted on June 03, 2008Ruthie drops in on Geeklawyer -- thanks him for the chocolates but tells him she's been getting hit on more than enough since hosting the Blawg Review -- and challenges him to try to get more action when he, himself, hosts in a few weeks. Listen in as she chats him up before a night out for dinner and fun.
Chicks, Sex, and Lawyers
Posted on June 02, 2008Blawg Review #162 at the China Law Blog provides a global perspective on the best recent law blog posts, including this provocation: "The Blawgraphy writes compellingly on the similarities between the practice of law and chicken sexing."
Veni, Vidi, Venti
Posted on May 26, 2008I came, I saw, I asked for the biggest.Patent Baristas serves freshly brewed chat daily featuring biotechnology and pharmaceutical patent law news and commentary -- and, this week, something big -- Blawg Review #161.Stephen Albainy-Jenei has been our host twice before at Patent Baristas...
Memorial Day Blawg Review
Posted on May 26, 2008These are the faces of the fallen.Memorial Day 2005 at Crime & FederalismMemorial Day 2006 at Blawg ReviewMemorial Day 2007 at Biker Law BlogMemorial Day 2008 at Patent Baristas
Blawg Review Sherpa Guide
Posted on May 23, 2008One of our Blawg Review sherpa guides, Diane Levin, posted these helpful notes on her blog at Mediation Channel, which we cross-post here with her kind permission.Each week through the viewpoint of a different host, Blawg Review, the revolving blog carnival which presents the best in legal blogging, shows its readership a new perspective on law, the legal profession, and legal scholarship...
Sorry
Posted on May 21, 2008Professor Mirko Bagaric at Moral Dilemma has a moral dilemma; his duty to client takes precedence over his commitment to host Blawg Review. So, with regrets, he sends his apologies for not being able to host on National Sorry Day in Australia. We realy were looking forward to "an exploration of the moral issues of our time" in the next Blawg Review...
Fęte de la Reine
Posted on May 19, 2008In Canada, this is the day barristers and solicitors (Queen's Counsel and commoner alike) and all loyal subjects celebrate the Sovereign's birthday. Not so in England, where the Queen's birthday is celebrated, not on Victoria Day (the last Monday before or on May 24 in honour of both Queen Victoria's birthday and the current reigning Canadian sovereign's birthday) but in June for the birthday of Her Royal Highness Elizabeth II...
Would you like to know
Posted on May 17, 2008a secret, just between you and me?mesh is happening because five people with an enthusiasm for the Web and all the next-generation things happening around us decided an event like this one had to take place in Toronto. Events connecting Web ideas and leaders of the future are going on everyday around the world - Geneva has LIFT, Paris has Les Blogs, New York has BlogOn ? and now Toronto has mesh so we can be part of the Web 2...
Ruthie Does Blawg Review
Posted on May 16, 2008She was hot when she came to the colonies last year, according to salacious gossip. No stranger to the bar, Ruthie hosts Blawg Review next at Ruthie's Law.
The Terrorists Have Won
Posted on May 15, 2008"If you fail to keep the link to your Blawg Review working, the terrorists have won." ~Ed.Professor Amos Guiora, who hosted Blawg Review #74 on September 11, 2006, is testifying before Congress today. The hearing is titled ?The Resilient Homeland: How DHS Intelligence Should Empower America to Prepare for, Prevent, and Withstand Terrorist Attacks...
Happy Anniversary
Posted on May 14, 2008Happy Anniversary to Professor James Maule, who twenty-five years ago taught his first class at Villanova. Actually, Professor Maule started teaching law a few years earlier, but who's counting?Shortly after his Silver Teaching Anniversary, Jim hosted Blawg Review #53 on his award-winning law blog, MauledAgain...
Whistleblower's Blawg Review
Posted on May 12, 2008It's whistleblower week on Capitol Hill and at Blawg Review #159 hosted by the LaBovick law firm's Whistleblower Law Blog, which notes that "independent whistleblower coalitions, such as the International Association of Whistleblowers (IAW), the Make it Safe Campaign, and many other independent whistleblower coalitions, will hold a series of simultaneous but separate events in Washington, D...
Law Practice Tips
Posted on May 10, 2008Those who have been following this blog carnival from the beginning will remember Jim Calloway's Law Practice Tips Blog, an Oklahoma based weblog about law practice management, the Internet and technology as it applies both in law practice and in all of our lives, was the host of Blawg Review #49, Oklahoma Style...
Trust, Mommy Bloggers
Posted on May 05, 2008Lawyers who love blog carnivals are in for a special treat this week.DLA Piper's David Donoghue is hosting the Carnival of Trust for May 2008 at the Chicago IP Litigation Blog, where he previously hosted Blawg Review #133.This week's Blawg Review #158 is hosted on The Mommy Blawg, where the theme is "Midwives and the Law" this International Day of the Midwife...
Blawgs Get Kawasakied
Posted on April 30, 2008Yay! Blawg Review got totally Kawasakied.Alltop won't change the world, but it's a lot more interesting for lawyers, law students and law professors, and everyone interested in law, now that law.alltop.com has been added to Guy Kawasaki's cool new website directory with rss feeds...
Hosting Blawg Review
Posted on April 24, 2008This being the week of Earth Day on April 22nd, it was probably not a coincidence that we received an email from Eric Lane who has agreed to host Blawg Review on his Green Patent Blog next April 20th.As you can see in the roster of Future Hosts on the right sidebar of the home page here, there are bloggers signed up to host Blawg Review a year in advance!There are still a few dates available to host Blawg Review, so if there's a date that is especially important for you and your blog, please send us an email telling us about it and we'll reserve that day for you.
Virtually Perfect Blawg Review
Posted on April 20, 2008Ben Duranske hosts a virtually perfect Blawg Review #156.
Parody Haiku Is Not Haiku
Posted on April 14, 2008Luke, of Real World Really, committed one of the cardinal sins of hosting a blog carnival this past week. What could be so bad you ask? In one word: Haiku.~ On the Moneyed Midways - April 11, 2008In honor of National Poetry Month, attorney Greg May at the California Blog of Appeal presents Blawg Review #155...
WHO Is Up & Who's Next
Posted on April 07, 2008David Harlow is hosting Blawg Review #154 on World Health Day at HealthBlawg. The World Health Organization has announced that today's theme is protecting health from climate change.Blawg Review #155 at California Blog of Appeal will be hosted by Greg May, who's not yet decided on a theme for his presentation, and he's got a few good ideas he's prepping for next week...
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Posted on April 05, 2008Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I?ve been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now...
Meetup In Halifax, Canada
Posted on April 04, 2008So, I'm standing on this hill in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the east coast of Canada, wondering if I might see any law bloggers from here. I'm in Halifax for a short visit over the weekend, and would be up for meeting any Haligonian barristers and solicitors (that's what they're called here in the Colonies) who blog and would like to meet with this anonymous editor, in person...
Reactions to Blawg Review
Posted on April 03, 2008We're always impressed by the creative ways law bloggers react to the latest issue of Blawg Review. This week, with a special April Fool's Day Appendix to the regular Monday issue, was exceptional.The funniest reaction to George Wallace's Blawg Review #153 this week came from next week's host of Blawg Review #154, David Harlow at HealthBlawg -- with a hilarious Monty Python video from YouTube...
Autism Awareness Day
Posted on April 02, 2008April 2nd is now, and in perpetuity, World Autism Awareness Day. Last year, when this day of awareness fell on a Monday, June 18th, Blawg Review #113 was hosted by Illinois attorney Charles P. Fox at his Special Education Law Blog, with several posts on autism linked...
April Fool's Blawg Review
Posted on April 01, 2008A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest,A motley fool; a miserable world!As I do live by food, I met a foolWho laid him down and bask'd him in the sun,And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms,In good set terms and yet a motley fool.As You Like It,Act II, Scene 7It's April Fool's Day and we have a bonus edition, an Appendix, as it were, to the latest Blawg Review #153 by attorney George M...
Avast, ye scurvy bastards!
Posted on March 31, 2008As a boy, George M. Wallace always wanted to talk like a pirate; in adulthood, he became an insurance lawyer. Click on the graphic above to see his excellent presentation of Blawg Review #153. Arrgh!
TechnoLawyer Gets It
Posted on March 18, 2008Blawg Review #152 will be hosted on TechnoLawyer Blog next. While you're waiting, we recommend taking another look at BlawgWorld 2007 -- available here for free. Just click on this link or the picture above.
St. Patrick's Day Festival
Posted on March 13, 2008Blawg Review #151 celebrates St. Patrick's Day on March 17th from Dublin, Ireland, this year.From March 13th to 17th 2008, St. Patrick's Festival is Ireland's official celebration for Ireland's national holiday - St. Patrick's Day. Around the globe on the 17th March, Ireland is celebrated with parties and parades but the BIG party is here in Ireland where we celebrate in style with five days and nights of fantastic celebratory events, most of which are free!Because St...
Trust Blawg Review #150
Posted on March 09, 2008As depicted in this video clip from The Jungle Book, trust is a concept that is widely misunderstood. But trust is understood by Charlie Green and is explained clearly on his blog, Trust Matters, in many articles and posts that are essential reading for lawyers who value trust-based relationships...
OH yes!
Posted on March 04, 2008I can't go back to Ohio because I've never been there before. As it happens, though, I plan to visit Cincinnati for a few days this week. Who will I be meeting there, over coffee?
Trust & Antitrust Review
Posted on March 03, 2008The March 2008 Carnival of Trust is hosted today by Aussie patent lawyer and intellectual property strategist Duncan Bucknell. Pointing us to some of the most interesting blog posts touching on issues of trust, this Carnival of Trust opens with a selection from our friend Brett Trout...
Trust Lawyers
Posted on February 27, 2008Trust lawyers to understand the importance of trust.These hilarious comments follow the announcement by Geeklawyer that he's taking off skiing for 10 days in Austria and, while he's tracking Teutonic totty, expects fidelity of his babes in the British blogosphere...
Rubbernecking
Posted on February 26, 2008It's a disaster and we can't help rubbernecking!One of the founders of the Carnival of the Capitalists, a.k.a. CotC, is doing everything possible to wreck it.Er? Um? Right, Need to Do CotCI?m so thrilled, too. Nobody really seems to be interested in it anymore...
Nipper's Blawg Review
Posted on February 11, 2008Nipper (1884 - 1895) was a dog that served as the model for a painting entitled His Master's Voice, which later became identified with a series of audio recording brands, including RCA Records, and it's quite a story.Nipper?s original owner, Mark Henry Barraud, died in 1887, leaving his brothers Philip and Francis to care for the dog...
Out And About
Posted on February 08, 2008It's been an interesting week for the Editor of Blawg Review, who, like many bloggers, doesn't get away from the computer and out into the real world as often as he should.Invited by ALM's Jill Windwer, David Snow, and John Bringardner, to attend the blogger meetup at LegalTech this week, I didn't hesitate to fly to New York City to get together with several law bloggers who know me only through Blawg Review...
Super Bowl Blawg Review
Posted on February 04, 2008Wondering what to do after the Super Bowl? If you're in New York, keep partying. If you're in Boston, keep drinking. Everyone else, read Blawg Review #145: The Super Bowl Edition, and click on the graphic above to watch Super Bowl Commercials on YouTube and vote for your favorites.
What's Happening?
Posted on February 02, 2008Speaking of freezing at Grand Central Station, it's gonna be cold when we arrive for next week's LegalTech New York event. Still, I'm looking forward to covering the story on Blawg Review -- "live from New York" as they say.Here's the scoop from Monica Bay, the Editor-in-Chief of Law Technology News:Bloggers who are journalists, consultants, or analysts should let us know if they need free press credentials...
LOTR Blawg Review
Posted on January 28, 2008Blawg Review #144 is hosted at Cyberlaw Central by hobbit-like cyberlawyer Kevin Thompson, my precious.
Minor Wisdom, Major Writing
Posted on January 27, 2008What makes great blogwriting?A well written blog is a beautiful thing to read. When I hit upon a blog with great writing, I can spend hours digging into the archives, learning, laughing, getting to know a writer.Because a great blogwriter, in the end, is someone you want to be friends with...
Blawg Review Themes
Posted on January 21, 2008Blawg Review #143 is a special presentation on Public Defender Stuff for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. It's always interesting when our hosts are inspired to do something special for Blawg Review. If anyone's interested in hosting a special issue this year, there are still opportunities for specific themes on the following dates that are now available to be booked in advance to host Blawg Review:September 8th is International Literacy DaySeptember 15th is International Day of DemocracyOctober 6th is German-American DayNovember 3rd is Japan Culture DayNovember 10th is USMC BirthdayNovember 17th is International Students DayDecember 1st is World AIDS DayDecember 15th is Bill of Rights DayCheck out the roster of future hosts in the sidebar on our home page for other available dates to host Blawg Review, and send the editor an email if you'd like to book a date to host, yourself...
All I Ever Wanted
Posted on January 17, 2008"All I ever wanted was one of these," lamented Rodney Dangerfield, whose claim to fame was that he never got any respect. With all due respect to Mr. Dangerfield, the premier law blog for public defender stuff has announced The Rodneys, the second annual Public Defender Blogger Awards...
Blawg Review of the Year
Posted on January 15, 2008Following the Inferno-themed Blawg Review #35, named Blawg Review of the Year 2005, and Purgatorio-themed Blawg Review #86 that was Blawg Review of the Year 2006, The Divine Comedy's third cantica, Paradiso, provided the theme for Blawg Review #137, which received the most peer-reviewed nominations and is hereby recognized as the Blawg Review of the Year 2007...
Letter to a New Lawyer
Posted on January 14, 2008Blawg Review #142 by Susan Cartier Liebel at Build A Solo Practice is an excellent example of the letter and the spirit of Blawg Review.Notice how she follows these hosting guidelines to the letter:Unlike most other blog carnivals, which rely only on submissions, Blawg Review collects the best of the law blogs each week from various sources, including the recommendations of readers of law blogs...
Join the Fun
Posted on January 09, 2008For Blawg Review #142, Susan Cartier Liebel has an idea that challenges followers of this project to submit or recommend law blog posts that contribute to an "open letter" theme. Here's her proposition:Some have been after me for a while to construct a "Letter to a New Lawyer" giving them advice, wisdom, perspective...
Instalanche!
Posted on January 06, 2008The neologism "instalanche" alludes to Instapundit. In the blogosphere, this is similar to being Slashdotted; it refers to an avalanche of traffic to a blog after a very popular site links to a post.Thanks to Professor Glenn Reynolds and all the thoughtful bloggers who link to the current issue of Blawg Review every week...
An Honor To Be Nominated
Posted on January 04, 2008Blawg Review was honored to be nominated by the ABA Journal editors as one of the Blawg 100, where our humble Blawg Review blog was unfortunately categorized under the heading "Generally Speaking" along with many of the most popular law blogs, including QuizLaw, Overlawyered, How Appealing, Point of Law, Ernie the Attorney, and May It Please the Court, each of which, incidentally, has hosted Blawg Review...
Ed's Blawg Review Nominations
Posted on December 31, 2007It's that time of year when law bloggers wonder which issue of Blawg Review will receive the honor of being named Blawg Review of the Year. And, this year, who gets this recognition will be determined not by the editor but by the nominations posted by previous hosts of Blawg Review and those listed on the roster of Future Hosts for the upcoming year...
Not Another Blawg Award
Posted on December 28, 2007With the success of the Simply the Best blawg meme and the recent announcement of Dennis Kennedy's Blawggies, following the ABA Journal's Blawg 100, it seems the last thing the blawgosphere needs is yet another list of who's the best law blog in whatever category or niche, least of all another award from some anonymous editor...
So This Is Christmas?
Posted on December 25, 2007Blawg Review #140 is a Christmas presentation by Jonathan Frieden, who is not the anonymous blogger in the photo above.Merry Christmas, everyone. ~Ed.
All I Want For Christmas
Posted on December 22, 2007It's about giving a gift that keeps on giving. So if you'd like to give some link love to lawyers who blog, this is a good time to review your blogrolls and start the new year off right with resolutions to link more often to the best that the blawgosphere has to offer each and every week...
Season's Greetings
Posted on December 16, 2007It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, even without the snow.
Blawg Review Awards in SL
Posted on December 14, 2007The nomination ceremony for this year's Blawg Review Awards will be held on Thursday, December 27, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific time at the offices of the Second Life Bar Association. Second Life users can follow this SLURL to the Second Life Bar Association offices on the 6th floor of the "Justice Center...
Health Wonk Review
Posted on December 13, 2007David Harlow, who hosted Blawg Review #88 last year, as well as Blawg Review #129 this year, is now hosting Health Wonk Review at Healthblawg.Health Wonk Review is a biweekly compendium of the best of the health policy blogs. More than two dozen health policy, infrastructure, insurance, technology, and managed care bloggers participate by contributing their best recent blog postings to a roving digest, with each issue hosted at a different participant's blog...
Human Rights Day
Posted on December 10, 2007PG at de novo hosts Blawg Review #138 on Human Rights Day, which is celebrated annually around the world on December 10th.As noted in Wikipedia, the date was chosen to honor the United Nations General Assembly's adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the first global enunciation of human rights...
Oscar Mayer Wienermobile
Posted on December 07, 2007I'm here in Newport Beach, where exotic cars outnumber humans, and what do you think is in the hotel parking lot?Oscar Mayer's famous Wienermobile, which has toured the United States for over 70 years. The first was created in 1936, and only six have since been built...
Our Foreblawggers
Posted on December 04, 2007In a companion-piece to the ABA Journal Blawg 100 published this month, the editors name seven lawyers who started the blawg revolution -- Foreblawggers. Three of them, Denise Howell, Howard Bashman, and David Lat, have hosted Blawg Review. The others, not yet...
Blawg Review In Paradiso
Posted on December 03, 2007Following the Blawg Review of the Year Award-winning Inferno-themed Blawg Review #35 and the Purgatorio-themed Blawg Review #86, The Divine Comedy's third cantica, Paradiso, provides the theme for Blawg Review #137, to which Colin Samuels of Infamy or Praise welcomes us this week...
ABA Journal Blawg 100
Posted on November 29, 2007Here are the 100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal.When we set out to name the ABA Journal?s inaugural Blawg 100, we knew we were up for a challenge. There are between 2,000 and 3,000 legal blogs?what we call blawgs...
Blawg Review Up Down Under
Posted on November 27, 2007Blawg Review #136 is up at Aussie law blogger Peter Black's award-nominated Freedom to Differ. Pete enjoys a good YouTube video as much as the next bloke. Well, maybe more, actually!So where the bloody hell are you?
Thanksgiving Mummers?
Posted on November 22, 2007We can give thanks again this year that Peter Black, an associate lecturer in law at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, who hosted Blawg Review #85 on Freedom to Differ, is hosting Blawg Review #136 so we can enjoy this long holiday weekend gathering together with family, friends, and loved ones, to reinforce the ties that bind us and give thanks for our many blessings...
Equal Opportunity & TGDOR
Posted on November 19, 2007Today is Equal Opportunity Day and our host this week, Jillian Weiss, has published the first of a two-part presentation on this theme.The first part of Blawg Review #135 is hosted on Transgender Workplace Diversity, by Dr. Jillian Todd Weiss, Associate Professor of Law and Society at Ramapo College, and author of Transgender Workplace Diversity: Policy Tools, Training Issues and Communication Strategies for HR and Legal Professionals...
Blawg Review Marathon
Posted on November 12, 2007Blawg Review #134 is being run this week by Eric Turkewitz at the New York Personal Injury Law Blog. You won't want to miss this one -- it's a marathon, not a sprint.Eric Turkewitz tells me that the inspiration for his New York Marathon theme was this Mummer On Parade post and Blawg Review #89: The Mummer's Veil...
Lest We Forget
Posted on November 11, 2007Charon QC has a poppy on his law blog's header today in memory of the war dead. In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below...
Blawg Review Networking
Posted on November 09, 2007This past week, I've been traveling around California, meeting up in the real world with some of the law bloggers who have already hosted Blawg Review.Last night, we partied from after work to past midnight at the offices of the The Williams Lindberg Law Firm in Newport Beach, where my new best friend Craig Williams hosted the Fifth Annual Fall Harvest Open House...
Jonathan B. Wilson on Illiberal Liberals
Posted on October 16, 2006columnist Peggy Noonan recounts four recent tales of leftists clamping down on the dissenting speech of non-leftists...
Lawyer caught naked while not blogging
Posted on October 15, 2006If David Lat ever gets arrested, his 1 phone call will be 2 Orin Kerr
"Shall"?This Time It?s Personal
Posted on October 15, 2006Ken Adams takes dead aim at the use of the word "shall" in legal drafting
Colin Samuels notes Corporate Counsel magazine's Eight attributes of a "go-to lawyer" and adds a ninth of his own.
Posted on October 15, 2006Antitrust Love (and Speech)
Posted on October 15, 2006Manfred Gabriel about how "[t]he National Law Journal sets up a dichotomy between political speech and advertising, but leaves out a third category of speech: academic and intellectual discourse
The end of Likelihood of Confusion
Posted on October 15, 2006it could happen if NY passes draconian legal advertising rules
Heather Armstrong?s Legal Publishing Tussle
Posted on October 15, 2006if getting fired for blogging is being dooced, is getting sued for not writing abookaboutyourblog getting blooked?
Floyd Landis Takes His Case to the People
Posted on October 15, 2006Freakonomics author Stephen Dubner notes that Floyd Landis, who was stripped of his Tour de France victory by an adverse drugs test is appealing the World Anti-Doping Agency's decisions and is posting the legal documents involved on his website for all to
Usha Rodrigues and his commenters discuss whether blogging a topic is sufficient to "pre-empt" it for further academic writing
Posted on October 15, 2006Eric Muller doesn't believe in ghosts at the moment
Posted on October 15, 2006but spot some spectral homos erectus and a few animal ghosts and he might be convinced. Reached for comment, Caspar indicated that he didn't believe in Muller, either.
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