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Blawg Directory: Law Firms

Build a Solo Practice
"Newly minted or well-seasoned, teaching you how to create and grow your legal practice." Business planning from the ground up: marketing, getting clients, keeping clients.
What About Clients?
"What About Clients? is a weblog which contains my personal ideas and thoughts on servicing business clients as valued customers in American law firms. I started it in 2005 because I think that 1) the level of service at even the best American law firms is often inattentive and erratic—and that troubles me—and 2) even where service is sound, it can be a lot better."
Above the Law
Above the Law calls itself a legal tabloid. Its focus is legal gossip.
Home Office Lawyer
Discussion of how to effectively run a nontraditional law practice, utilizing Internet technology and nonhourly-rates billing options.
Because you never know ...
"... whether you'll stub your toe on a rock or a pearled oyster as you wade through the muddy waters of life."
PointofLaw.com
"Information and opinion on the U.S. litigation system."
Temporary Attorney: The Sweatshop Edition
This blawg's intent is to "expose the nasty sweatshops, swindling law schools, and opportunistic staffing agencies."
Law Blog
"WSJ.com on law and business and the business of law." The Wall Street Journal's legal blog features a half-dozen detailed posts daily on a wide variety of legal topics from law firm shakeups—sometimes featuring interviews with BigLaw names—to the U.S. Supreme Court. Posts frequently include links to pleadings and other relevant legal documents.
Ms.JD
"Serving women in law school and the legal profession, Ms. JD is an online community that provides a forum for dialogue and networking among women lawyers and aspiring lawyers." The blawg features issues relating to the numbers of women who opt out of the legal profession and the poor representation of women in the courts and legal community. The site also addresses the role of gender in legal careers.
Solo Practice University
"Solo Practice University—the 'practice of law' school, is a revolutionary new Web-based educational community and networking forum for lawyers and law students. You can follow the construction progress of Solo Practice University here."
Overlawyered
This blawg "explores an American legal system that too often turns litigation into a weapon against guilty and innocent alike, erodes individual responsibility, rewards sharp practice, enriches its participants at the public's expense, and resists even modest efforts at reform and accountability."
The Conglomerate
This blawg is a collaborative project covering business, law, economics and society.
MyShingle.com
"Dedicated to the demands and desires of solos and small law firms, the clients we serve and others in the legal profession who use our services or dream of going out on their own." This blog was started to help students and lawyers at firms who want to create unconventional practices and to provide a place for solos to trade advice and tout their successes.
More Partner Income
"This site is dedicated to ideas and techniques for the financial management of the law firm with the objective of increasing the income of equity partners."
The [Non]billable Hour
The [Non]billable Hour deals with law-firm management and technology issues. It says it is "changing professional practice one idea at a time."
Heller Highwater
"The name Heller Highwater is a reminder for all who visit to remember the “highwaters” of Heller Ehrman: when a once well-managed and well-respected firm consistently reached the high marks of integrity, efficiency, respect and dignity towards its backbone and foundation—its professional support staff. It is also a reminder of the aftermath of destruction and the mark left on the wall: how a lack of preparation, forward-thinking, open communication and honesty led to the downfall of a workplace one could be proud of. When the storm recedes, all that will be left is that mark. But a core group of intelligent, creative, and driven people won’t be around to clean up the mess. They will have moved on to better things, better places and better times. This site gives them the tools to do that."
Skadden Insider
This blawg is "created to collect and pass along (and sometimes comment on) the gossip and news making its way through the halls of a certain law firm's offices. Have a rumor, some gossip or news you'd like to share? Well, contact us at ."
Adam Smith, Esq.
Adam Smith, Esq. is "an inquiry into the economics of law firms." The blawg links to and analyzes articles about law firm strategy and profitability.
Larry Bodine LawMarketing Blog
This blog links to news stories and studies about law firms' marketing-related activities and makes notes of those who are and aren't successful, advises law firms on how their marketing dollars should be spent and reviews newly published books about networking and marketing.
L.A. Legal Pad
A daily blawg on the Los Angeles legal scene.