Blawggies and Blachman

Dennis Kennedy's 2004 Legal Blogging Awards

Even though I don't see my name in there I'll accept the award in the following categories:

4. Best Legal Blog Sectors
Winner: The Intellectual Property Blogs

7. Best Legal Blog Trends
Winner: Group Blogs

Also, take a look at 5. Funniest Legal Blogs where I learned that Runner-up: Anonymous Lawyer has outed himself.

see also: Scheherazade on Secrets:

Basically, the three big lessons for me are: 1) the blog as a medium has an inherent credibility. 2) Humans in general, and lawyers in particular, are amazingly susceptible to status and heirarchy -- Anonymous Lawyer's appeal was the perception of access to honesty from the upper stratus of the standard professional heirarchy, and the delicious way the author could make explicit all the power struggles and displays of status and power within a law firm. Jeremy can convey that in beautiful, elegant turns of phrase. 3) The profession really is draining talent, energy, and enthusiasm from a huge hunk of lawyers, which is a travesty. Anonymous Lawyer was fiction, but too many people recognized themselves in the mirror Jeremy held up. It makes me really sad.

Cf. Barman by Alex Wellen (offering insight into biglaw life as seen by an IP attorney from a 2nd tier law school [ed. great read])


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