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May 26, 2006
The Legal World Outside America: Non-U. S. Blawgs
If you scroll down a little on your left, you'll see our first edition of a catalogue of non-U.S. legal weblogs from or about (I) The West and (II) Asia. Latin America, Africa and the Middle East are next. We'll keep building on this--just as my own firm has built an international practice over the past 10 years. The idea here is to catalogue active quality "foreign" blawgs so we can all expand the digital conversation into the non-U.S. legal community and make a few new friends and contacts. WAC? has worked on this project for a while--see e.g., here, here, here and here--and commentators or bloggers like Rupert White of the UK Law Gazette, England’s Justin Patten, Nick Holmes and Delia Venables and the United States' Bob Ambrogi have mentioned or weighed in on this effort.
Suggestions for additional non-U.S. blogs are welcome. They should be active legal weblogs. Blogs without English language versions are fine, as many lawyers and business people--especially outside America--are multilingual.
Why do this? Where or what does it get American attorneys?
First, many jurisdictions around the world--especially in Europe and Latin America--have legal systems remarkably similar to America’s for historical and cultural reasons. Some don't. But as many more of us and our clients dive into the new international mix, it's good to know something about these jurisdictions legally and especially culturally. Many of these blogs are excellent, like China Law Blog, The Canadian Privacy Law Blog and TechnoLlama, to name just a few. Some cover developments in the European Union, and other focus on one practice area in several countries or regions.
Second, American lawyers with corporate and high-end practices in solo shops, boutiques and firms under, say, 300 lawyers should be especially interested in "meeting" lawyers and businesses headquartered outside of the U.S. There are opportunities to do U.S. work domestically on behalf of these entities. You don't need offices in London, Brussels or Beijing to obtain or do that work.
Finally, this could be great fun.
Posted by JD Hull at May 26, 2006 09:41 AM
Comments
I am sure this WILL be great fun. Thanks for linking my blog, I will return the courtesy soon. I am very pleased to know you and your readers. Hugs from Portugal.
Posted by: SMP at May 29, 2006 12:12 PM
I'd love to have my blawg listed on your site. I am based in Johannesburg, South Africa and I don't see any fellow South Africans listed in your sidebar.
Paul J
Posted by: Paul Jacobson at June 1, 2006 03:15 AM
Paul--We will add it. Dan Hull
Posted by: Dan Hull at June 2, 2006 06:30 PM
Hi. Thanks for listing Unternehmensjurist.de on the list of german blawgs, which is one of my two blawgs I´m experimenting with for a little bit longer than one year. I would strongly recommend to have a look to http://www.jurablogs.com which is a metablawg presenting the content of nearly 100 german blawgs. I would also recommend http://www.lawblog.de from lawyer Udo Vetter to be added to your list of german blawgs. Keep on blawging!
Posted by: Stefan Deyerler at June 6, 2006 01:34 PM
Stefan: You are welcome. We'll take a look at the other blogs soon. I think we were already considering adding both. Thanks. Dan
Posted by: Dan Hull at June 6, 2006 04:33 PM
I am a senior partner in a law firm known as Taneja & Associates, based in New Delhi India. This firms provides through its non profit organisation called Vigilent forum, pro bono community services to those unprivilleged individuals who can not afford the high litigation costs. Besides we also monitor any voilation of Human Rights of people and take up their cases with appropriate forum for redressal.
The firm also has some Non Resident Indian, settled all over the Globe as its clients. we would, therefore be very happy to join you and explore and share our knoledge based data covering local legal provisions and International law.
Posted by: Om Taneja at July 7, 2006 05:27 AM