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October 04, 2007
Simply the best: WAC?'s picks for the top 10 blawgs
In response to the "meme" started by the mysterious Editor at Blawg Review, and our getting tagged by Craig Williams at May It Please the Court, below are the ten legal weblogs we consider to be "simply the best". Five were easy for us--the other five were harder. Tough task, which we took seriously. Several fist fights* and flying objects. But nothing "political", in any sense, about our list. While we were flattered to be included in the top 10 on Craig Williams's list, we would have selected MIPTC anyway:
Above the Law (David Lat, U.S.)
Blawg Review (U.S.)
Charon QC (U.K.)
China Law Blog (Dan Harris, U.S./China)
GeekLawyer (U.K.)
Law Blog (Peter Lattman/WSJ, U.S.)
May it Please the Court (Craig Williams, U.S.)
More Partner Income (Tom Collins, U.S.)
Overlawyered (Walter Olson, Ted Frank, David Nieporent, U.S.)
SCOTUS (Lyle Denniston et al., U.S.)
*Over some great U.S. blogs.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
Idaho U.S. Sen. Craig not permitted to withdraw guilty plea.
In the wild wide world of wide stances, see WSJ Law Blog. Tough break for criminal defense lawyer Billy Martin, a WAC? favorite.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
California air quality arm gets even seriouser.
In Environmental Protection, see "California Air Resources Board (ARB) Approves Strategy to Drastically Cut Air Pollution". The ARB's new plan is statewide and comprehensive, with special focus on meeting federal standards and deadlines for the districts of the South Coast and San Joaquin Valley, a rural-urban mix in the center of the state.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
1st Amendment--Privacy--Extreme naked gardening in Happy Valley, Oregon. ("Dude, that ain't right.")
Essay Question No. 1
Steve Howatt, 56, gardens on his own property in the nude in Happy Valley, Oregon. He's a nice if slightly overweight guy. It's undisputed that he engages in no sexual displays or exhibitionism. The local city council is busy crafting ways to control him and so far has banned nudity (a) in public places and (b) which "can be seen" from public places. But some of the people complaining about Howatt, including Samantha Love, are nearby neighbors who can see Howatt from their own property. Love and others say "it's just not right". They want Howatt to stop. Howatt continues to assert a right to garden nude. In support of his argument, he claims that American statesman and inventor Ben Franklin was also a nudist. Newhouse News Service, KATU-TV (Portland) and esp. MSNBC video.
Discuss.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
Tom Kane: Four marketing laws for lawyers
Tom Kane published the first of four short articles yesterday: "Four Laws for Successful Lawyer Marketing - Part I". Based on this, and Tom's usual fare, the series promises to be excellent. His first law is the Law of Perception--the one that for excellent lawyers is hard to grasp. WAC? thinks of it as the unfortunate but true "it-just-doesn't-matter-that-you're-better" principle.
Posted by JD Hull at 12:09 AM | Comments (0)