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• 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."
  

• Home Office Lawyer

  Discussion of how to effectively run a nontraditional law practice, utilizing Internet technology and nonhourly-rates billing options.

• Temporary Attorney: The Sweatshop Edition

  This blawg's intent is to "expose the nasty sweatshops, swindling law schools, and opportunistic staffing agencies."

• The [Non]billable Hour

  The [Non]billable Hour deals with law-firm management and technology issues. It says it is "changing professional practice one idea at a time."

• Legal Trade

  This blawg focuses on the business of the law, especially in Houston and Texas.

• Cotterman on Compensation

  This blawg discusses all levels of law firm lawyer compensation, from associates to service partners, to rainmakers, to lawyer-managers, and senior lawyers who are phasing down in preparation for retirement. It comments on external market forces as well as the complex internal issues of system design, productivity, and motivation. It draws on Altman Weil’s extensive survey databases as a source of compensation trends and benchmarks.
  

• Cook County Public Defenders Blog

  This blawg covers the latest news involving the Cook County Public Defenders Association. Members can view timely union news, contact numbers for union officials, and access download-ready forms..

• Law Students Building a Better Legal Profession

  Building a Better Legal Profession is a national, law student-driven grassroots movement that seeks workplace reforms in large private law firms. The blog and site post self-reported data on billable hours, pro bono participation and diversity. The blog strives to "ensure that practicing law does not mean giving up a commitment to family, community, and dedicated service to clients."
  

• Tex Parte Blog

  Tex Parte is Texas Lawyer’s daily blog covering the Lone Star State’s legal community. Posts alert readers about profession-related events and cover state district attorneys' offices, federal and state court decisions, comings and goings at Texas-based law firms and the State Bar of Texas, and profile of Texas lawyers and law students with stories to tell.

• 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 Associate Pirate

  "Arr is for resumé!" This blawg discusses the legal market from a recruiter's perspective.
  

• Sophistic Miltonian Serbonian Blog©

  "A vaguely legally tinged ode to arcania."

• Mendelson’s Musings

  "Tales from a VC and recovering drummer, software guy, lawyer."

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