{"id":5259,"date":"2006-04-10T02:01:55","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T06:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/04\/10\/blawg-review-52\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:01","slug":"blawg-review-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/04\/10\/blawg-review-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Blawg Review #52"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’ve been here often, just skip down to that little picture of <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Carolyn Elefant for Blawg Review<\/EM> substance.  If you’re new here, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Scrolling down our homepage will give you a good taste of what <\/FONT>it’s <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>like <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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General Praise<\/EM><\/STRONG>:  Bob Ambrogi<\/A> and Carolyn Elefant<\/A> are doing a great
job with their new assignments at Law.com’s Inside Opinions<\/EM><\/A>.  They
cull the most interesting-substantive posts from the Law.com stable,
plus other weblogs, giving helpful excerpts, often along with their
own reaction to the issue or news.    I wish they would leave posts on
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using his nose
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\"tiny  When I grow up, I’d like to have a weblog like the <\/FONT>Volokh Conspiracy<\/EM><\/A>.  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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citations.  If I could read only <\/FONT>one weblog for legal substance, it would <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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tional in 1990, and <\/FONT>dropped <\/FONT><\/A>the case<\/FONT><\/A> against Denise Grier, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican, to withdraw his <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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discriminatory and defamatory directive that Catholic Charities of the <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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W<\/FONT><\/EM>hat would Henry Drummond or<\/A> <\/DIV>
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church attendance and life span.”   Naturally, he weighs the opportunity costs of <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Roberta Beary<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>, Esq.<\/FONT> <\/DIV>
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mess in Indianapolis, and another to both a special issue<\/A> of <\/FONT>Law Technology News<\/FONT><\/A>, <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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New Orleans’ legal community.<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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Michael Harris at George’s Employment Blawg<\/EM> has put together the latest in a series of <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Forget the Search <\/FONT>Engine Optimization strategies of the big law firms, Michael has made <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Barry George<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>, J.D.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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law” poetry of the anonymous Canadian law student who haunts the Lawyerlike<\/EM><\/A> weblog.  <\/DIV>
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early this morning (it hadn’t the last time I looked). Ben’s <\/DIV>
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reputation for putting together excellent content and <\/DIV>
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resources, bodes well for this new venture, which will <\/DIV>
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and “focus<\/A> to a large degree on legal technology and <\/DIV>
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of its very helpful legal weblog taxonomy.  With the internet <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Mammi Law enacted favoring Berlusoni’s media <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>empire. (The Nation<\/EM>, <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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