Legal Blog Watch
This blawg tracks and analyzes the postings of Law.com blawgs and other legal blawgs.
Author: Carolyn Elefant and Robert Ambrogi post to this blawg. Carolyn Elefant is a solo practitioner in Washington, D.C., who also authors FERC Fights, Offshore Renewable Energy Law and My Shingle. Robert Ambrogi is a lawyer, writer and media consultant in Rockport, Mass. A longtime legal journalist, he has been editor of the National Law Journal, director of the ALM News Service, publisher of the Connecticut Law Tribune, editor of Lawyers Weekly USA and editor of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. He also authors Robert Ambrogi's LawSites, Media Law and BullsEye - Expert Witnesses & Litigation, contributes to EDD Update and co-hosts the weekly Lawyer 2 Lawyer podcast on Legal Talk Network.
Blawg Related Categories: Law Practice Management • Solo / Small Firm
Recent Posts from Legal Blog Watch
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Biden's Ties to Trial Lawyers
My colleague Carolyn Elefant provided a good roundup earlier this week of perspectives on Joe Biden the lawyer. One item she pointed out was the Sunday Washington Post story about two lawsuits alleging that Sen.…
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Lawyers, Guns N' Roses
The FBI this week arrested a Los Angeles blogger for posting nine songs from the upcoming and long-delayed Guns N' Roses album, Chinese Democracy. At his blog May it Please the Court, lawyer J. Craig…
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A Cover-Up in the Judge Kent Case?
From the department of dubious achievements comes the news that U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent of Texas is now the first federal judge ever to be charged with federal sex crimes. The Houston Chronicle broke…
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Real Estate Deals of the Rich and Lawyerly
My morning review of the headlines brought up a reference to Chicago BlockShopper.com, a site I first wrote about here last year (Site Tracks Sales of Lawyers' Lairs). The site stands out for adding color…
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Lawyer Sues Women's Studies Department for Discrimination Against Men
When a university offers a women's studies program but no men's studies program, is it engaging in unconstitutional discrimination against men? Yes, says Roy Den Hollander, a New York lawyer who's suing Columbia University, a…
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Midlife Career Change for Lawyers
Most of the time, we hear younger lawyers expressing dissatisfaction with the legal profession, whether it's a lack of meaningful work or the lack of job opportunities. But even older lawyers get the professional blues.…
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Should Law Students Pay Law Firms for Training?
"If associates get all the benefits of training at my law firm in the first three years, and can't really add much value anyway, why don't they pay us?" That's the question that Dan Hull…
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Hillary as Obama's Attorney?
The Columbia Journalism Review points this morning to mixed metaphors from the Los Angeles Times in its coverage of Sen. Hillary Clinton's speech last night at the Democratic National Convention. One LA Times article employed…
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Framing a Digital Bill of Rights
With convention season in full force, is it time to convene a cyber convention to draw up a Bill of Rights for the digital age? TechCrunch co-editor Erick Schonfeld thinks so. He is proposing a…
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The ILTA Grapevine
Law firm technology wonks are gathered this week in Grapevine, Texas, for the 31st annual meeting of the International Legal Technology Association, and thanks to some of the bloggers in attendance there, we are all…