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There is no doubt that the blogosphere is ideal for attracting lawyers of all kinds: during law studies, lawyers often have to minimize their own creativity for the sake of learning the correct judicial argumentation. In blogs you can write whatever you want, and you don’t have to deal with a second opinion – unless you want to do.

From the incomplete list of law blogs that you can find below, you can learn some interestings things about the international blawgosphere:

• Quite a few lawyers are using their blogs to promote their own skills and expertise – the blog is a marketing tool and not just a tool for personal expression. Legal Marketing and Real Lawyers Have Blogs are only two of the many specimen that discuss this phenomenon
• Many lawblogs focus on issues related to Intellectual Property, such as trademarks and patents. These topics are heavily debated in academics, law studies, economics and politics. It is one of the fields of international law that has seen a tremendous change in the last decade. And it seems that specialisation on this topic still leaves a big piece of cake for the many lawyers working in this field.
• IP-Blogs have specialized even further, by covering some specific regions (Asia, China) or areas of international law.
• For other specialised law fields, blogs are rare. There are a few blogs discussing Franchise Law; Construction Law; Sports Law; Pharma, Bio, Nanotechnology Law, Leasing and Factoring; Human Rights or Media. This could be a big opportunity for new law-blogs creating their own niche.
• Some blogs feature a great sense of humour. To name one: Patent Pending.
• Very few international law-creating institutions have their own blogs, and neither do insiders from these institutions. Some of these institutions have RSS-Feeds to be utilized, but so far Web 2.0 has remained outside of their sphere.
• There are some blogs from lawyers working in large law firms, but most of the lawyers are working in small law firms. Great prominence in Germany gained the Großbuden-Nerd.
• Law Blogs focusing on general Issues are adressing mostly one specific country. The German-American Law Journal is one of the few exceptions of a bilingual law blog. I found only few law blogs in other countries, such as France or Denmark.
• For reason of completeness, I also listed some blogs that have some relation to law, such as the economics of law.

Please feel free to make any changes at the Blog-O-Pedia-Article or give feedback here in the comments. Some issues concerning the German Blawgosphere you will soon find at Blogtrainer.

Issues

Intellectual Property

• Jeremy Phillips – Intellectual property consultant; author, lecturer and commentator on patents, trade marks, copyrights and most contemporary issues involving intellectual property rights.
• ACT – Protecting Small Business Innovation – ACT is an international grassroots advocacy and education organization representing more than 3000 small and mid-size information technology firms from around the world.
• Adding value through Intellectual Property and Intellectual Property Asia are blogs by Robert Harrison, an UK/Australian national living and working in Germany.
• Alaskapatentattorney – Professional information with an Alaskan twist
• bIPlog was produced by a class at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism that brought together students from journalism, law, computer science and information management and systems to create a Weblog on intellectual property issues.
• Daily Dose of IP by Mark Reichel who is a patent attorney with the Intellectual Property Group at Ice Miller LLP.
• Displacement of Concepts – Thoughts on technology, innovation, law, legal education, economics, cyberspace, intellectual property, and other things of interest to the humans inhabiting the information society, brought to you by a few folks at the University of East Anglia and the Norwich Law School.
• eardrumbuzz has a category on IP.
• Erik J. Heels is a patent and trademark attorney.
• The Fire of Genius by Joseph Scott Miller, a law professor who teaches in and writes on patent law and related areas, such as other types of intellectual property law and antitrust law.
• Florida Intellectual Property Law Blog by John Rizvi who is a founding partner of the law firm of Gold & Rizvi, P.A., a Florida based intellectual property law firm and has focused his practice exclusively on matters relating to patent, trademark, and copyright law for the past 12 years.
• GeekLawyer is an intellectual property barrister in private practice and who acts primarily for clients in the electronic technology arena, but who does all IP/IT work in the UK/EU/US jurisdiction.
• Guiding Rights Blog – Trademarks, Copyright and the Internet, by Mark V.B. Partridge, Partner, Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson LLP, Chicago, Illinois
• I/P Updates by William F. Heinze who is an intellectual property attorney in Atlanta, Georgia USA.
• IAM Magazine – Blog published six times a year, Intellectual Asset Management is a major magazine that focuses on intellectual property from a business point of view.
• immateriblog.de by Matthias Spielkamp on Immaterial Goods
• ipweblog.deby Dr. Martin Meggle-Freund covers changes on the ipwiki.de
• IPJur by Patent Attorney Axel H Horns on Intellectual Property Law.
• Small Business IP Protection and Management / J. Douglas Miller’s blog dedicated to the intellectual property needs of individuals and small to medium sized companies (Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Internet, and Technology Law)
• IPNews by the IP Mall – Pierce Law Center
• PHOSITA – an intellectual property weblawg by Dunlap, Codding & Rogers (Oklahoma)
• Post Grant by Maier & Maier
• IMPACT® – A legal blog with a focus on intellectual property & information
• Innovationpartners – An weblog about IP and Innovation (Danish)
• Intellectual Property and Tech Law Reports – An Informational Blog by Gehrke & Associates, SC
• Intellectual Property Law Blog by Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, a law firm working o the protection of intellectual property rights, as well as in assisting their clients to exploit their commercial potential.
• Introduction to Intellectual Property – by Professor Wagner (inactive)
• IP Blog – News, Notes and Opinions on Intellectual Property Policy from a Market-Oriented Perspective
• IP Counsel Blog discussing issues that concern the practice of in-house intellectual property attorneys by Todd Lewis Mayover.
• IP Dragon is gathering, commenting and sharing information about IP in China to make it more transparent since 2005.
• The IP Factor by Dr. Michael Factor who is an Israel Patent Attorney and managing partner of Factor – Patent Attorneys (and also a magician).
• IP Litigation Law Blog by Philip P. Mann who is a trial lawyer with experience in litigating patent, trademark, trade secret, and other intellectual property matters.
• IP-ИC – Intellectual Property/Propriété Intellectuelle/Интелектуална собственост – by Gala Paricheva: an IP specialised lawyer from Paris, France.
• IPBiz by Lawrence B. Ebert, a patent lawyer located in central New Jersey.
• IPcentral Weblog is the Internet arm of the Center for the Study of Digital Property, which is a part of The Progress and Freedom Foundation.
• IPEG blog on European patents, innovation and R&D, EU Intellectual Property news, “must knows” on US patent Law, IP links & IP publications
• IPKat covers copyright, patent, trade mark and privacy/confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective. The IPKat team is Johanna Gibson, David Pearce, Jeremy Phillips and Ilanah Simon Fhima.
• IPthoughts – brief notes about patent, trademark and copyright topics primarily for IP professionals.
• IPwar’s by Warwick A Rothnie (old blog)
• Legal Discovery Japan – Offering a nexus of information on intellectual property and trade secret trends concerning Japanese corporations as well as litigation and discovery issues, by David Rosen and Kris Kracker.
• nipc Invention and nipc IP/it Update – News and comment on intellectual property, technology, media, entertainment and competition law from the UK, EC and around the world. Both blogs are from NIPC, a specialist on intellectual property and technology, by Toni Wilson, John Lambert
• Rethink(IP) Three patent attorneys with a mission: J. Matthew Buchanan, Stephen M. Nipper, Douglas Sorocco Blog.
• SCRIPT-ed is the online journal of the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law based in the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh.
• Shape Blog – Intellectual Property Protection for 3-D Stuff, Design, Fabrication.
• Tech Law Advisor is edited and published by Kevin Heller, a one time NYC intellectual property lawyer.
• TechnoLlama by Andres Guadamuz.
• Technological Innovation and Intellectual Property – The TIIP (Technological Innovation and Intellectual Property) newsletter summarizes new research on technological innovation and intellectual property as an aid to both scholarly researchers and interested non-academics.
• UK Inventor on UK IP Law.
• Vox PI – Current News from the IP Law by MEYER & Partners (French).
• Worldwide Intellectual Property News – Intellectual Property News, Links and Reviews from across the globe.

Copyright

• A Copyfighter’s Musings – Derek Slater from Harvard Law Schools blog on Copyright Issues
• bk! – Brandy Karl is a copyright attorney and a Residential Fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet & Society.
• chosaq – Research blog by Andreas Bovens on copyright issues in Japan.
• Creative Commons Blog of the NGO founded in 2001
• Legislating IP has the mission to consolidate available information concerning copyright, trademark and patent legislation in the Courts, in Congress and throughout the United States, edited by Kevin J. Heller
• Lessig Blog by Lawrence Lessig, author of famous books on Copyright Issues, such as Code 2.0
• Digital Copyright Canada, coordinated by Russell McOrmond, was started in Aug 2001 to allow for a public response to that phase of the Canadian copyright revision process – see also Copyrightwatch
• Copyrightdefense photographer’s and imaging profession’s copyright watchdog
• Counterfeit Law Blog by Leonora Herrmann, Florida
• Lenz Blog – Copyright, Patents, and WTO. The author is a professor of German Law, European Law and International Trade Law at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo.

Trademarks

• eLegal Canton by David Canton who is a business lawyer and trade-mark agent with a practice focusing on technology issues.
• MarkenBlog on Brands by Stefan Fuhrken (German)
• Le petit Musée des Marques by Cédric Manara (own blog at Domain Name), Frédéric Glaize, Rodolphe Grisey(French)
• Trademark-Blog by the Schwimmer Mitchell Law Firm
• Seattle Trademark Lawyer by Michael Atkins
• The TTABlog by John.L. Welch
• Name Wire: The Product Naming Blog by Strategic Name Development, Inc.
• The Gray Blog by Jorge Espinosa who has started this blog to track the interesting world of the parallel market. The blog will try to collect news and information regarding legislation, administrative rulings and judicial decisions related to parallel market goods.

Patents

• Anticipate This! by Jake M. Ward and Michael E. Dockins is a patent law blog providing thought-provoking commentary . . . with a dash of irreverent humor
• Automating Invention is Robert Plotkin’s blog on the impact of computer-automated inventing on the law (primarily patent law).
• CanadaPatentBlog – International Patent Matters from Canadian Patent Lawyer David J French
• Federal Circuit Blog – Blog Focused on the Federal Circuit
• IMT Blog – Infinite Monkey Theorem Blog by Patent Monkey
• The Invent Blog by Stephen M Nipper is a patent law blog covering news and information relevant to patent attorneys who serve independent inventors and small businesses.
• Patent Arcade – In the business of video games, intellectual property protection is critical to success, and Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks are the bricks with which your IP portfolio is built. The Patent Arcade by Ross Dannenberg writes about video game IP law, news, cases, and commentary.
• Patent Pending Blog – Patents and the History of Technology. A blog celebrating the history of technology and creative genius over the centuries by Robert Dykaslaw.
• patentablydefined.com – A patent prosecution blog discussing patent prosecution strategies to help achieve allowance of claims that patentably define over cited art by Michael Kondoudis
• Patently Obvious: Patent Law Blog by Dennis Crouch, Associate Professor of Law, University of Missouri, School of Law
• Peer to Patent is an initiative of New York Law School and the United States Patent and Trademark Office
• Promote the Progress by J. Matthew Buchanan on worldwide patent law and policy.
• Russ Krajec’s Anything Under The Sun Made By Man – Russ Krajec is a registered patent lawyer in Colorado
• Russian Patents Blog
• Patently Silly – The Humor of Invention by Daniel Wright (Comedian) on funny patents.
• 271Patent by Peter Zura on Patent Issues
• Just a Patent Examiner
• KinsellaLaw.com by Stephan Kinsella who is a patent attorney in Houston, Texas.
• Now, Why Didn’t I Think of That? – A Canadian patent, trade-mark and copyright blog, by Sander Gelsing.
• Patent Agent in Hong Kong working on Intellectual Property Protection in China and the rest of the world.
• Patent Attorney Blog: Michael P. Goldsmith, Attorney At Law, is a registered patent attorney and a computer scientist.
• Patent Circle – Patent Circle is a weblog focusing on recent developments and changes in Indian patent law, also covering recent updates and developments across the globe.
• Poland – IP law news and resources about recent developments in the Polish and European Intellectual Property (IP) and Information Technology (IT) Law by Dariusz Czuchaj from Kraków, Małopolska, PL
• Rated Patent Exchange Weblog

Franchise Law

• Wiggin and Dana’s Franchise Law Blog

Cyberlaw

• Adversario by Immo W. Fietz on IT-Law and E-Business (German)
• Danny Weitzner – Open Internet Policy by Danny Weitzner who runs the W3C Technology and Society Domain and co-directs the MIT CSAIL Decentralized Information Group.
• Domainblog by Daniel Dingeldey (previous blog) on Domains and Domain Law (German)
• GrepLaw is the blog of students and staff from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Stanford University
• Information on law and IT-Security by Dr. Oliver Gießlerit of Hanselaw, Hanselaw Hammerstein und Partner
• IT-Blawg by Carola Sieling
• Groklaw
• Lextext – Bret Fausett’s Internet Printing Press
• IPTAblog IPTAblog is a weblog about the relationship between the law, communications technology and the creative arts, by Andrew
  Raff, a lawyer, musician and geek based in Brooklyn, NY.

Construction Law

• Baurechtsblog.de by Y. S. Kaan Kalkan, Diem & Partner in Stuttgart on German Construction Law.

Sports Law

• Sports-law-Blogspot/ by Rick Karcher, Michael McCann, Geoffrey Rapp, Greg Skidmore, Howard Wasserman – focusing on US Sports Law.

Pharma, Bio, Nanotechnology

• Obiterdictum by Christian Saefken (previous blog) (both in German)
• Patent Baristas – freshly brewed bio/pharma chat
• Patent Docs is a Biotech & Pharma Patent Law & News Blog
• NanoTech Lex by Pittsburgh attorney Anthony Cerminaro focuses on nanotechnology, nanomaterials, nanoelectronics, nanosystems, microsystems, nanosience, MEMS and other small technology

Leasing and Factoring

• LeaseFacts by Bernd Helming

Human Rights

• Menschenrechte by Claudia Killian (Inactive)

Media Law

• Medienrecht News by Dr. Matthias Lausen, Institut für Urheber- und Medienrecht e. V.

Countries

German Law Blogs

• Andere-Ansicht.de by Christian Wolf, Würzburg
• advobLAWg by Michael H. Heng
• Anwalt-Seiten is host for German Law Firms by Proxis GmbH Munich that maintains a blog on current law developments in Germany
• blat.antville: Simon’s Blawg by Dr. Walter Simon
• Bonn Blawg by Hans-Josef Vogel
• Der Winkelschreiber by Mark Obrembalski
• Handakte WebLAWg by Rainer und Melanie Langenhan
• Jurablogs syndicates German Law Blogs, maintained by Matthias Klappenbach.
• Lawblog by Uwe Vetter (previous blog)
• Law-Blog by Rechtsanwalt Arne Trautmann, TRK Partnerschaft, München; Rechtsanwalt Dr. Christian Ostermaier, SNP Rechtsanwälte, München, Rechtsanwalt Moritz Pohle, LL.M. (EUR), SNP Rechtsanwälte, München;
  Rechtsanwältin Sonja Drexl-Trautmann, Head-Legal der Ekonid, Jakarta.
• Law Lounge
• Lawgical of the University of Saarbrücken
• jurabilis – juristisches Weblog aus Berlin by Alexander Hartmann (old blog
• Jurablog
• Juristisches und Sonstigesby Michael Kadlicz (inactive)
• Links und Recht (simon.twoday.net) by Dr. Simon and Partner
• MCNeubert lawblog by Michael C. Neubert
• mein blawg by Ralph Ernst
• RAGoertz
• RRef.de – Referendars-Gemeinschafts-Weblog by Florian Cahn, Markus Dammler, Alexander Hartmann, Clemens Kochinke, Christian Körner, Sascha Kremer, Peter Müller (who also has a personal law-blog at muepe.de), Jochen Notholt on issues concerning lawyer education
• Rechtzweinull by Carsten Ulbricht, Diem&Partner in Stuttgart on Law and Web 2.0
• staatsrecht.info by Priv.-Doz. Dr. Johannes Rux
• Vertretbar Weblawg by Sascha Kremer

Personal Blogs and Insider Stories of Lawyers (in German)

• Grossbuden-N… blogs about High Potential Working Environments in Law Firms
• Jungle Out There about the life in a big law firm
• gross-kanzlei.blogspot.com from a Frankfurt lawyer
• Wahlstation in Peking about a lawyer in Peking

Swiss Law Blogs

• EU-Law by David Mamane about Swiss and European Law related to IT and IP (in German).

Austrian Law Blogs

• Aktenvermerk.at by Ingmar Greil (previous blog)

American Law Blogs

• Law-Blog of the Wall-Street Journal
• Lawblog/ by David Sorkin, a professor at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago.
• a mad tea-party by a Boston Law School Alumni (inactive)
• Inter Alia an Internet Legal Research Weblog
• ProfessorBainbridge.com Professor Stephen Bainbridge is a law professor at UCLA
• Unintended Consequences – Doug Simpson’s weblog of research on the collision of law, networks and disruptive technologies.
• Anonymous Lawyer – Stories from the trenches, by a fictional hiring partner at a large law firm in a major city.
• Binary Law by Nick Holmes, a publishing consultant specialising in the UK legal sector and is Managing Director of infolaw. Binary Law focuses on my interest in legal information: how it is authored, edited, managed, processed and published; who uses it, why and what for; its syntax and semantics.
• Bizz Bang Buzz by strategic business lawyer, technology attorney, mediator Anthony Cerminaro focusing on small business, technology startups, entrepreneurs and emerging growth companies.
• Ernie The Attorney – Searching for Truth & Justice (in an unjust world)
• May it Please the Court by J. Craig Williams
• Naked Law is written by technology lawyers from Mills & Reeve, Cambridge England.
• Sugar, Mr. Poon? by second-year law student in Philadelphia.
• What About Clients? by Dan Hull is a weblog which contains his personal ideas and thoughts on servicing business clients as valued customers in American law firms.
• beSpacific – daily law and technology news with links to reliable primary and secondary sources on topics including: e-government, privacy, government documents, cybercrime and ID theft, the Patriot Act, freedom of information, federal legislation, legal research, KM, blogs, RSS and wikis by Sabrina I. Pacifici
• DennisKennedy.blog
• Digital Practice of Law – A daily digest of cases, comments and practical references for applying technology to the practice of law and litigation support.
• LawLibTech – A conversation on law library technology and knowledge management
• Lawtech Guruby Jeff Beard
• Legal Extranet Blog – Information About Legal Extranets, Client Workspace Technology, Litigation Case Management, E-Discovery Portals and Litigation Support by the Xerdict Group.
• Real Lawyers Have Blogs –
  Using Blogs to Market Your Law Firm by Kevin O’Keefe
• Strategic Legal Technology by Prism Legal
• TechnoLawyer Blog

Bilingual Law Blogs

• German American Law Journalin English and German
• Transblawg – Weblog on German-English legal translation by Margaret Marks

Campaign Blogs

• Gegen den Bundestrojaner! by Tobias Weisserth (and others) – Campaign for data security

Institutional News

• European Patent Office – News and Updates
• BVerfG (German Constitutional Court) – Entscheidungen
• BVerfG (German Constitutional Court) – Pressemitteilungen
• Der Generalbundesanwalt beim Bundesgerichtshof
• Eidgenössischen Institut für Geistiges Eigentum
• Wipo

Law and Economics

• the [non]billable hour by Matt Homann
• Adam Smith, Esq. – an inquiry into the economics of law firm.
• Crowdsourcing
• Evan Schaeffer’s Legal Underground
• Law Firm Diversity – The Law Firm Diversity blog is intended to promote a rational discussion about what’s called the business case for diversity: the creativity and problem-solving ability of a group is a function of the group’s (racial, ethnic, and sexual) diversity.
• Law Firm Management News
• Law People by Ronda Muir who is a senior consultant at Robin Rolfe Resources, specializing in the area of law firm and law department organizational development and dynamics.
• Law.com – Inside Opinions: Legal Blogs
• Legal Marketing by Ruth Balkin, Legal Industry Marketing Specialist
• Legal Profession Blog – A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network
• morepartnerincome.com – ideas and techniques about the management of the law firm.
• Professional Marketing Blog – News, opinions and insights into professional services marketing.
• Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites – Robert J. Ambrogi is a Massachusetts lawyer, writer and media consultant.
• The Becker-Posner Blog by famous economists Gary Becker and Richard Posner from University

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