This is the second year Legal Blog Watch’s Bruce Carton has identified his 10 “Most-Watched” legal blogs. Carton writes “not all legal blogs are created (and maintained) equal, and some always grow to be favorites of mine during the year.”…
What Factors in 2012 Will Be Examined That Can be Viewed as a Federal Public Policy Failure to Provide Affordable Civil Legal Services to the Electorate?
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Dec
2011 may go down in history as the year the ABA-Legal Academy cartel controversy moved beyond the law prof blogging reformers to receive major legal media and, more importantly, major general media attention by some opinion leaders that has caught…
The Green Bag’s 2011 Exemplary Legal Writing Awards
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Dec
Congratulations to Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Kagan. Both were among the winners of The Green Bag’s 2011 Honorees for Exemplary Legal Writing. CJ Justice was honored in the category of Opinions for the Court for his opinion…
Thank God the World is Going to End on December 21, 2012: The Coming Deluge of Law Firm Blogs
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Dec
Reporting in Watch Out: A Deluge of Legal Blogs is Approaching, Bob Ambrogi reviews some of the findings of a recently released survey of social media in the legal sector that was conducted by LexisNexis and Vizibility. Bob writes: Better…
Where is the Legislation That Banned Christmas?
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Dec
First published in LLB on Dec. 25, 2007. Cromwellian apologists, like the Cromwell Association, argue that there is no evidence to support the myth that Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas: There is no sign that Cromwell personally played a particularly large…
Round-Up of Law Practitioner Blogs
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Dec
Washington DC Metro Personal Injury Lawyer Blog http://www.washingtondcmetropersonalinjurylawyerblog.com/ http://www.washingtondcmetropersonalinjurylawyerblog.com/index.xml Examines personal injury cases, news, and related matters in Washington, D.C.. Published by Stein, Mitchell & Muse LLP Alabama Injury Lawyer Blog http://www.alabama-injury-lawyer-blog.com/ http://www.alabama-injury-lawyer-blog.com/index.xml Examines personal injury cases, news, and opinions…
Friday Fun: Santa Visits the Library During Finals Week
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Dec
Santa visits LSU Middleton Library during finals week. Student: I’ve been a good boy, Santa Santa: What would you like for Christmas? Student: A’s on my finals. Santa: I don’t know if I can quite pull that off but I’ll…
Controversy Over the ABA Denying Provisional Accreditation to Duncan Law School
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Dec
Duncan Law School of Lincoln Memorial University was recently featured in David Segal’s Dec. 17, 2011 NYT article For Law Schools, a Price to Play the A.B.A.’s Way. In fact, the article opened and closed with comments from Duncan Law…
