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Blawg Directory: Contract Attorneys

Temporary Attorney: The Sweatshop Edition
This blawg's intent is to "expose the nasty sweatshops, swindling law schools, and opportunistic staffing agencies."
JDWired Blog
Professional development, lifestyle, and community for contract attorneys.
Black Sheep of Philly Contract Attorneys
Recognizing the increase in contract attorney work, the use of contractors by major firms especially for document review, the need for better information for contractors and document reviewers, and the desire for improvements in the legal contracting field, this website was created by a contract attorney for other contract attorneys.
The State of Beasley
"Go prestigious, go public, or don't go at all." — A general rule for all who are considering law school.
Lawyer On! The Contract Attorney’s Blog
"Features posts on outsourcing legal work, solo and small firms, law practice management, and any other topics that become relevant to my practice and yours. My practice focuses on cultural and natural resource issues, so this may be a common theme as well."
The Outsourced Associate
"Legal research memoranda, information on outsourcing, ethics opinions and general information on research and writing."
Portland Contract Lawyering
"Promotes solo practice and freelance legal work and discusses changes in the legal profession, modern law practice and technology, and legal research and writing."
Lawdable
"Lawdable is a forum for in-house and managing attorneys to discover and share information related to the issues they face on a daily basis. Through a 'best practices' approach, the blog provides commentary from experts in a wide range of areas, citing specific client examples of progressive and innovative (or 'laudable') initiatives that have helped legal departments become more efficient and economical without sacrificing quality. More specifically, it focuses on national issues and general commentary on the use of attorneys in a nontraditional manner, issues affecting legal departments on a daily basis and how both new and tested approaches can offer solutions, litigation support and e-discovery, best practices regarding technology implementation and efficiency training methods for teams of attorneys, and the work-life balance sought by attorneys."
The Posse List
"We report on all facets of the contract attorney industry and we maintain 60-plus Listservs, which send out contract attorney jobs every day to our 12,000-member base. We also post several articles/commentaries daily."