Articles Posted in 2010

What’s in a Blawg’s Name? Audience Appeal, Perhaps

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I’ll admit it: I’m a sucker for a clever pun or play on words.  Among legal blogs, there’s been a minor run on clever names lately, with several new blogs carrying clever turns of phrases as their names.

Clever names are nothing new for legal blogs, of course. I think one of the oldest legal…

Lawyer2Lawyer Looks at the Prop 8 Ruling

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In a landmark decision last week, U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker in San Francisco struck down California’s controversial and highly debated Proposition 8. Approved by the state’s voters in November 2008, Prop 8 overturned a state supreme court ruling that resulted in the legalization of same-sex marriage.

This week on the legal-affairs podcast…

Another ALM Veteran Joins Thomson Reuters

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Interesting to see, via Romenesko, that Thomson Reuters has hired Eric Effron as editor for law of the new Thomson Reuters Professional News Center. Effron is the former editor and publisher of Legal Times, the former ALM-owned Washington, D.C., legal newspaper that ALM recently folded into its national legal newspaper, The National