I'm the ABA's runner up lawyer of the year!
Well, I and thousands like me are, anyway. Their actual lawyer of the year was Alberto Gonzales, not because he's spectacular (-ly awful) but because "no single lawyer made more news" this year than the former AG. But on the list of also-rans, in addition to obvious high profile names like Mike Nifong, Monica Goodling, Scooter Libby, and Howard K. Stern, was this entry:THE LAWYER-BLOGGER
These days anybody with a penchant for the word can get on the Web and grouse. And we’ve reserved a spot here for those who do just that because 2007 was the year lawyer-bloggers—some call them blawgers—came into their own.
Sure, law blog superstars like David Lat and Tom Goldstein have been churning out content for a while now, but the last year saw a plethora of law blogs begin to insert themselves into the most significant daily news and legal issues debates alongside their counterparts in journalism and academe.
From the Duke lacrosse team fiasco in North Carolina to the high-profile “Family Secrets” Mob trial in Chicago, bloggers made their presence known with a flourish, sometimes to the chagrin of the judges and lawyers involved. But the influence of the lawyer-blogger goes beyond that.
Whether by a single practitioner who wants to share his or her problems and experiences opening an office, or a BigLaw associate who wants to dish the dirt about the practice, the lawyer-bloggers are finding an audience for their work, and we salute them.
Hey, sometimes I resemble that remark up there in bold. (On the days when I'm not worried about getting fired, that is.)
Meanwhile, among their early picks for possible lawyer of the year for 2008 is J. Reed Walters, the prosecutor of the Jena 6.
Let's just say I don't think topping this list currently looks like a particularly good thing for a lawyer to put on his or her resume.
1 comment:
In all seriousness, I've never seen you dish dirt about your firm or its practice. (I would think that's a good thing).
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