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Blawg Directory: Law Practice Management

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.
The Legal Satyricon
This blawg focuses on First Amendment, entertainment, and intellectual property law issues as well as commentary on legal practice and legal education issues.
Legal Profession Blog
Covers a variety of general interest legal topics and is especially focused on ethics, professional responsibility and the practice of law.
Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog
This blawg covers "law practice management, the Internet and technology as it applies both in law practice and in all of our lives."
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.
Durham-in-Wonderland
"Comments and analysis about the Duke/Nifong case."
Settle It Now Negotiation Blog
"Everything you always wanted to know about negotiation but were afraid to ask ... "
China Law Blog
One China-based and one U.S.-based lawyer cover China business news and entertain with links to fish-out-of-water posts about being an American in China.
Slaw
A blog by and for the legal research and IT community in Canada. The name "Slaw" was chosen in deference to Salon and Slate and because "there's the notion that a cooperative weblog with many contributors is bound to consist of a great many (nutritious) small pieces in rather a jumble."
PointofLaw.com
"Information and opinion on the U.S. litigation system."
Legal Ethics Forum
This blawg discusses recent court decisions and news stories related to legal ethics issues—lawyer advertising, attorney-client privilege, multijurisdictional practice—and follows news stories of allegations and trials related to lawyer or judicial misconduct.
Jurisdynamics
"Jurisdynamics describes the interplay between legal responses to exogenous change and the law's endogenous adaptive capacity. This blog focuses on tools (mathematics, linguistics, complexity theory, and biology) and subjects (regulation, innovation, environmental law, and natural disasters) that invite jurisdynamic analysis."
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.
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 Bizop News
"Misleading advertising law: due diligence for income earning opportunities."
InhouseBlog
This blog provides helpful links to online tools for in-house attorneys. It also provides news and job listings.
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.