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Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Posted on December 08, 2008
Let's hear it for Blawg Review #189 by Colin Samuels, a rock star of the legal blogosphere!

Posted on December 03, 2008
The 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, 2008
Eric Turkewitz invites the legal blogosphere over for Thanksgiving dinner, and Blawg Review #188.

To Be Thankful For

Posted on November 26, 2008
Eric 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...

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Legal Beagle

Posted on November 24, 2008
In 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, 2008
Blawg 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, 2008
If 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, 2008
British 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 Daith� Mac S�thigh...

Lest We Forget The Vets

Posted on November 11, 2008
Many 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, 2008
Aussie Duncan Bucknell is hosting Blawg Review #185 next. Obviously, we're in very capable hands.

Change Happens

Posted on November 05, 2008

Fresh Hope

Posted on November 04, 2008

Text Your Vote

Posted on November 03, 2008
Click 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, 2008
Now 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, 2008
Happy 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, 2008
David 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, 2008
Blawg 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, 2008
If 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, 2008
On 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, 2008
Scouring 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, 2008
The 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, 2008
This 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, 2008
Next 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, 2008
Welcome 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, 2008
Peter 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, 2008
As 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, 2008
Monica 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, 2008
Anita 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, 2008
It'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]

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