The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. --Mark Twain It should be noted that although the carnival of legal blogging reaches a milestone with this week's Blawg Review #200, it shows no signs of slowing down. If at some point in the distant future the carnival does finally fold its tents, I ...

The inimitable Charon QC has posted Blawg Review #193, the first -- and first great -- Blawg Review of the new year. Coming on the eve of the Twelfth Night holiday, this week's review celebrates the annual reign of the "Lord of Misrule," or the "Abbot of Unreason," a master of ceremonies for the hol...

For my first three Blawg Reviews, I've let Dante lead me through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. Inconsiderately enough, however, Il Maestro never completed a fourth cantica for his Divine Comedy, leaving me stuck for a theme this time around. Finding that theme was an albatross around my neck until a ...

Well, not really, as the continuing existence of this blog attests. There isn't a natural selection principle at work in this week's Blawg Review; instead, Joshua Fruchter of the LawyerCasting blog has been hard at work selecting the best legal blogging of the past week for inclusion in Blawg Review...

OK, confession time here. Back in 1995, I took the Oregon bar exam at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. To my relief and others' dismay, I passed the first time around; nevertheless, it was a solid year before I could drive past that building without my stomach tightening. Thankfully, my sec...

Blawg Review celebrates inventiveness on a regular basis, not just by covering the best intellectual property-related legal blogging but also by showcasing the creativity of its hosts. Blawg Review #179, hosted by the proprietors of the Securing Innovation blog, manages to achieve both in high style...

Now that I've returned home from a brief sojurn away and worked my way through the most pressing of the matters which accumulated during that time, I've had a chance to read through this week's Blawg Review. Frankly, it blows. No, of course it doesn't, but I figured that someone who sees my Blawg Re...

You know, I've been happily involved with the Blawg Review project as a reader, contributor, and sherpa for several years now and I can't recall midwifery every coming up in the carnival of legal blogging. Well, now it has. Boldly going where no man has gone before is The Mommy Blawger, who hosts Bl...

Congratulations to Colin Samuels of Infamy or Praise for his Blawg Review of the Year Three-Peat. Although Mr. Samuels was more than gracious in nominating several other blawgs for the honor, the glitterati has spoken, awarding him Blawg Review's top honor for a third year in a row. On a personal no...