A survival guide to legal blogs and blogging
am 08.05.2008 von Jurabilis
Diesen Untertitel trägt ein Artikel im California Lawyer Magazin, dem sich wieder einmal entnehmen lässt, wie weit man in Sachen Blawgs andernorts bereits ist:As best as most people can tell, the history of legal blogs began in July 1999 when two lawyers-a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and another attorney from New Jersey-launched Overlawyered (www.overlawyered.com). A Tennessee law professor picked up the trend two years later, launching Instapundit (www.instapundit.com) in August 2001. That fall Howell, who was then with Crosby Heafey Roach & May, launched Bag and Baggage (bgbg.blogspot.com).
By 2003 Blawg.com founder Bill Gratsch was able to create a directory of 57 legal blogs. Today, he estimates there are more than 2,000.
Others peg the numbers even higher. Tim Stanley, a FindLaw cofounder, is the CEO of Justia, a Mountain View firm that offers free case law, blog databases, and other legal resources online. He estimates there were about 200 legal blogs by mid-2003; 1,700 in 2006; 4,000 by last August; and upwards of 5,000 to date.
At the same time, legal blogs have grown in scope, versatility, and influence. By mid-2006, for example, …
Taxonomy of American and Canadian Legal Blogs
Law & Justice / Another update of my post What Legal Rules Are Applicable to Blogs?: Ian Best, a third-year law student at Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University, has made a taxonomy of American and Canadian legal blogs. He has done thorough job. The catego…
The 2007 Blawggies: Dennis Kennedy’s Best Law-related Blogging Awards
Handakte WebLAWg / Once again Dennis Kennedy has recognized the importance of law librarian blogs with the 2007 Blawggie Award in “Best Legal Blog Category” (tied with Non-US Legal Blogs and Solo Lawyer Blogs). Dennis writes: I have to be one of the bigges…
UK Legal Blogs
Law & Justice / If you are interested in UK Legal Blogs, take a look here. Background reading: What Legal Rules Are Applicable to Blogs?…
LexMonitor
Transblawg / LexMonitor is a sort of US blawg portal, like Jurablogs on steroids. As reported by Kevin OKeefe in Real Lawyers Have Blogs, it has just soft launched (seems to mean launched in a beta version). LexMonitor is a free daily review of law blogs…
How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship?
Handakte WebLAWg / Web logs (”blogs”) are transforming much of American society, including government, politics, journalism, and business. In the past few years, blogs have begun to affect the delivery of legal education, the production and dissemination of…
Anyone think what lawyers.com calls blogs are blogs?
Handakte WebLAWg / Reading Bill Gratsch’s post on the state of lawyer blogs, I noticed he included LexisNexis’ lawyers.com in the list of companies providing lawyers blog services and software. Does anyone really believe what lawyers.com offers for blogs is…
Final Blogbook Post
Handakte WebLAWg / “A couple of years back, when we started The Blogbook, there were very few legal blogs. Now of course there are thousands, including blogs from big firm lawyers as well as solos. Our original intention for this blog was to try to figure out if…
UK law and legal blogs
Handakte WebLAWg / Infolaw, a UK legal resource, has added a list of UK legal and law blogs to its blogs section. Though Nick Holmes, Managing Director of Information for Lawyers Ltd and webmaster and principal consultant for InfoLaw, reports there’s still no sur…
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