Sunday, April 13, 2008

Blawgs... Drum Roll Please...

The legal profession finds a way to rank everything. You by facing your "predicting numbers" that include your undergrad school, gpa, and LSAT score. Then you worry about the ranking of prospective law schools. Next, you pick the highest rated school to which you were accepted. Now that you are in law school you need to worry about your gpa and the all important class rank. Your 2L year you start looking at the ranks of law firms. Again, pick the highest one that will take you. This goes on and on until it reaches... rankings of legal blogs? Totally figures!

http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/aba_journal_blawg_100

The ABA Journal Blawg said the following:

When we set out to name the ABA Journal’s inaugural Blawg 100, we knew we were up for a challenge. There are between 2,000 and 3,000 legal blogs—what we call blawgs. How many of those are worth a click? Turns out, quite a few.
The trick is fitting them neatly into a category. By their very nature, bloggers defy categorization. What in one week is a blog devoted to the black-letter practice of law is the next week a heartwarming chronicle of a baby’s first steps or a devastating battle with cancer. Our Blawg 100 bloggers fill their posts with chatter about work, gossip, helping hands, frustration, love, rage and pleas for justice. There is no end to advice (lots of it useful), tips (many of them helpful) and opinion (goes without saying). And there are volumes, we repeat, volumes of cautionary tales.


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