Blawg Review Virgins- July 29, 2008 Can you identify who are Blawg Review virgins in the lineup aboveStephanie West Allen hosted Blawg Review 114.Diane Levin hosted 43, 94 and 130.Victoria Pynchon and Gini Nelson are Blawg Review virgins.Victoria Pynchon of Settle It Now and The IP ADR Blog confesses to being a Blawg Review virgin:Though we've been reading Blawg Review since we put up our first tentative post on blogger (here!) in June of 2006, as hosts, we're Blawg Review virgins. So send your best posts this week to Blawg...http://blawgreview.blogspot.com/2008/07/blawg-review-virgins.html Simple Justice, Due Process- July 28, 2008 Justice delayed is justice denied, so we weren't at all surprised when New York Criminal Defense Attorney Scott Greenfield duly processed his Blawg Review 170 on Simple Justice a day early!http://blawgreview.blogspot.com/2008/07/simple-justice-due-process.html Feeling the link love- July 24, 2008 Just when I was getting depressed about the dearth of link love for Blawg Review, Hugh MacLeod put it all into perspective.http://blawgreview.blogspot.com/2008/07/feeling-link-love.html The Trusted Advisor Review- July 23, 2008 Recently, Stephanie West Allen asked me if there is one book I'd recommend for new lawyers that she might include in the regular column, Reading Minds, she edits for the American Bar Association. My recommendation, along with two others, can be read in the latest issue of the ABA's Law Practice Magazine.I recommend The Trusted Advisor.The theme of The Trusted Advisor (Free Press, 2000) is that the key to professional success is not just technical mastery of ones discipline, but also the ability.http://blawgreview.blogspot.com/2008/07/trusted-advisor-review.html If You Like It, Link It- July 22, 2008 If you like the current issue of Blawg Review and you think your blog readers might find something interesting in it for them, please, for everyone's sake, don't hesitate to link to it.Our helpful Blawg Review Sherpa, Colin Samuels, shows the way. Just whisper about it. You never know who's listening.The Wall Street Journal has figured this blogging thing out.Popular Law Stories from Around the Web Edited by The Wall Street Journal Louisiana seeks change on death penalty .http://blawgreview.blogspot.com/2008/07/if-you-like-it-link-it.html They're Working On It- July 21, 2008 Somewhere in California, the brand strategists at Whisper are busy "working" on Blawg Review 169. Given the time zone and the other things they have to work on, we can't be sure when it will be done.Well, it's done well. Grok this!http://blawgreview.blogspot.com/2008/07/theyre-working-on-it.html We were on a break!- July 21, 2008 Peter Black at Freedom to Differ has been on hiatus for six weeks, but he's back.Doug Sorocco and all the folks in Phosita-land have just published their first post since April 7, 2008 to tell us they're taking a break.I knew it!http://blawgreview.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-were-on-break.html Duke Ellington Blawg Review- July 16, 2008 Sonia Simone has penned a wonderful piece at Copyblogger that might well be styled "The Duke Ellington Guide to a Blawg Review that Swings". Here's a few introductory bars, if you want to hum along.Dont mean a thing if it aint got that swing . . .Whenever you study a creative form like copywriting, you spend a lot of time on technique. You think hard about headlines and metaphors and what specific details youll use. You worry about positioning and persuasive structure. Youre trying to keep all..http://blawgreview.blogspot.com/2008/07/duke-ellington-blawg-review.html Rush to Blawg Review 168- July 14, 2008 Today is Bastille Day, and if this week's host of Blawg Review 168, Jeffrey Mehalic at the West Virginia Business Litigation blog, had reminded us in advance, we might have swapped his hosting date with French-Law.net, which hosted Blawg Review 165. C'est la vie.Words and music by Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil PeartThere's no bread, let them eat cakeThere's no end to what they'll takeFlaunt the fruits of noble birthWash the salt into the earthBut they're marching to Bastille DayLa...http://blawgreview.blogspot.com/2008/07/rush-to-blawg-review-168.html Major League Blawger Meetup- July 8, 2008 Who wants to join me I've got four excellent tickets to the baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre in Toronto this Friday night, July 11, 2008. Hopefully the game will be as exciting for lawyers as this.Box Score: It was a helluva game, as Jays blanked Yankees 5-0.Canadian fans taunted A-Rod, as law bloggers watched helplessly. "We should have invited a family law specialist," noted Ed.Instead, the editor of Blawg Review was joined by a law...http://blawgreview.blogspot.com/2008/07/major-league-blawger-meetup.html |