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Blawgs and RSS Feeds

For an overview of 'blogs and their legal sub-genre, blawgs, see § 8 of my Guide.
 


Blawg Directories and News Aggregators

blawg.org may the largest single blawg finder. For syndicated feed use Backend.php or Ultramode.txt.

Law Professors Blogs "is a network of web logs ("blogs") designed from the ground-up to assist law professors in their scholarship and teaching. Each site focuses on a particular area of law and combines both (1) regularly-updated permanent resources and links, and (2) daily news and information of interest to law professors. Our editors are leading scholars and teachers who are committed to providing the web destination for law professors in their fields"

Blawg Republic pulls headlines and summaries from popular blogs on an hourly basis, plus a directory of blawgs by subject.

News and Research

Law Librarian Blawg

Jurist is a daily legal news and research site produced by the University of Pittsburg School of Law.

May it Please the Court  A popular and highly readable review of the facts of interesting cases from both a practitioner's and general interest  viewpoint.

Goldstein & Howe, P.C. host the SCOTUSblog, a very professional and excellent resource for news and information on issues currently before the Court and discussions of the impact of recent decisions. 

LibraryLaw Blog Commentary and covereage of news and issues of the law's impact on libraries.

 


Attorney and Law Student Blawgs

A short list of large law firms with official blogs is being compiled by Ron Friedmann at Prism Legal Consulting to give you some prime examples of the blog as a marketing/information tool.

JD Bliss "Balancing Life and the Lawsm"
 

Razorback Lawyer is written by an attorney who recently opened a solo practice in Crittenden County, Arkansas (West Memphis).

Southern Appeal, the banner with Robert E. Lee kneeling in prayer pretty much sums up the views expressed by this lawyer and his other conservative contributors.

Mark Lyon - As Rejected by Harvard Law School, a diary 'blog by a Mississippi College law student.

Jag Central covers military justice and military law issues by an Army Captain and UCLA law student.

Non-Legal Mid-South Blogs

Memphis MSA Commercial Real Estate

The Memphis Commercial Appeal Viewpoint reporter Blake Fontenay's blog.

Memphis Business Journal headlines.

 


RSS Feeds

RSS stands for Rich Site Summary ( formerly RDF Site Summary) and allows for users to receive content, headlines, summaries and full articles for quick viewing or automatic reposting, aka syndicating  to other sites.

Law Journals

You may select feeds from any of 400 plus law journals cover table of contents and abstracts of new articles.  This feed is done by John Doyle of Washington & Lee University Law Library.  An overview of the project also gives help in setting up a reader for beginners.

Government

RSS in Government "News about how RSS is being used by international, federal, state, and local governments." There are fully ten different ways to syndicate this site.  Use the following tag for the most popular format.

Federal Agencies

The Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR Index blog has feeds in four categories:

IPO's
Quarterly Reports

Annual Reports

Insider Trading

Freshpatents.com tracks new patents and technology.

The U.S. Consumer and Product Safety Commission provides a feed of safety recall press releases.

State

Arkansas Government eNewsroom provides state news releases some of which are in .pdf format.

 

 


News

Memphis Business Journal headlines.

The Memphis Sun is an online newspaper whose RSS feed pulls stories from other news sources.

Corporate Information

Corporate Communications company Nooked had compiled a directory of RSS feeds for corporate information.