What was the first legal blog?
Bob Ambrogi asked this week who was the first legal blogger.
Pulling from Bob's post and comments, here's what I saw as the first 16 17 from youngest to oldest:
- SCOTUSblog by Tom Goldstein, Oct. 1, 2002
- Inter Alia by Tom Mighell, Aug. 18, 2002
- Jottings by an Employer's Lawyer by Michael Fox, July 17, 2002
- Vote Law by Ed Still, July 4, 2002
- TalkLeft by Jeralyn Merritt, June 2002
- The Buck Stops Here by Stuart Buck, May 25, 2002
- The Trademark Blog By Marty Schwimmer, May 18, 2002
- West Virginia Legal Weblog by Brian Peterson, April 30, 2002
- The Volokh Conspiracy, a group blog, April 10, 2002
- beSpacific from Sabrina Pacifici, April 4, 2002
- The Shout from Jennifer Under, March 10, 2002
- Ernie the Attorney, Ernest Svenson, March 2, 2002
- Bag and Baggage from Denise Howell, Nov. 28, 2001
- Rick Klau, Sept. 11, 2001
- Delaware Law Office by Larry Sullivan - Sept. 10, 2001
- Instapundit from Glenn Rynolds August 8, 2001
- Overlawyered from Walter Olson, July 1, 1999
With respect to some other veteran legal bloggers whose archives did not reflect their first posts, thats what I've got. Let me know if I am missing anyone.
Just to clarify: I did not mean to suggest that the bulleted list of blogs for which I provided "birth dates" were the first legal blogs. The only first I was asserting was Overlawyered as the first. The others were selected blogs that I knew existed then and checked their launch dates. There may have been others that launched during that time that I did not mention.
Appreciate that Bob. My guess is there were others. It would be great to actually have a list of the first 100 or so.
I'm sure they don't look at starting a blog back then as anything special, but when we have hundreds of thousands of lawyers blogging, it'll be these folks who will have laid the ground work.
Delaware Law Office - Sept. 10, 2001
Aug 15 2002.