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Blawg Review

A weekly peer-reviewed law blog carnival (blog reviews by legal bloggers).

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5 Blogs & 5 Blawgers

Posted on September 02, 2008
Blog 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, 2008
Austin 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, 2008
Peter 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, 2008
Cross-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...

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Promising Rookie Signed

Posted on August 18, 2008
Omar 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, 2008
As 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, 2008
Blog 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, 2008
Blawg 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, 2008
Can 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, 2008
Justice 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, 2008
Just 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, 2008
Recently, 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, 2008
If 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, 2008
Somewhere 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, 2008
Peter 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, 2008
Sonia 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, 2008
Today 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, 2008
Who 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, 2008
American 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, 2008
Let'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, 2008
Blawg 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, 2008
Geeklawyer 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, 2008
Blawg 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, 2008
LexMonitor 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, 2008
On 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, 2008
June 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, 2008
The 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, 2008
Well, 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, 2008
Ruthie 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, 2008
Blawg 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."

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