Legal Blogs - where is the profession blogging?!

This week, the Times reports on Legal blogs: isn’t it time British lawyers staked their claim in the blogosphere? which illustrates the apparent 'lack' of blogs maintained by professional lawyers in practice.

Some pros and cons are listed (along with some useful links to several blogs) but it appears that blogs don't necessarily bring in work, but it gives a good corporate image of success, knowledge and expertise.

Recently, Google Reader pointed me in the direction of the Inner Temple Library blog as a 'Recommended Feed' - this is a bountiful one-stop-shop for a whole array of legal news: http://innertemplelibrary.wordpress.com/ with daily, of not hourly updates.

THE BEST OF THE BLOGS (According to the TimesOnline):

Ipkat (www.ipkat.com): excellent source of information on all things IP

The Magistrate’s Blog (http://thelawwestofealingbroadway.blogspot.com/): musings from a JP

Naked Law (http://www.nakedlaw.typepad.com/): one of the best

Baby Barista (http://timesonline.typepad.com/baby_barista/)

Human Law Mediation (http://humanlaw.typepad.com/): very informative resource on mediation

Bloody Relations (http://bloody relations.blogspot.com/): “Where there’s a relative there’s a bloody good argument to be had,” says Jacqui Gilliat’s family law blog. We’re not arguing

GeekLawyer (http://blog.geeklawyer.org/): ranting by anonymous scribe

Law and Tax (http://robertnewey.typepad.co.uk/law_and_tax/): it’s good. Honest

Laurence Kaye on Digital Media Law (http://laurencekaye.typepad. com/laurence_kayes_blog/): always insightful IP comment

Interestingly, most of these blogs (and many other law blogs) are IP, IT or technology-slanted blogs.