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The ABA Journal has just released its third annual Blawg 100, a compilation of the best legal blogs as selected by the Journal's editors and suggested by readers, and several members of the LexBlog Network were named in the top 100.

Ed Adams, Editor and Publisher of the ABA Journal, said that with more lawyers blogging every day, the editors are seeing more quality blogs to choose from.

"If there is a common denominator on our list, it's that we look for blogs that are updated regularly and contain original content," Ed said. "We also pay attention to blogs that we find useful in terms of tipping us off to news or generating posts we consider worthy of coverage."

In the Practice Specific category, Philadelphia attorney Shari Shapiro's Green Building Law Blog earned praise for the way she explains green building law "with enough personality and clarity that a layperson can understand and stay interested."

In the same category, Seattle food lawyer Bill Marler was commended for his "fleet" of food safety blogs, including the flagship Marler Blog.

In the Business of Law section, Larry Bodine's LawMarketing Blog is honored for "covering the legal marketing profession like a beat."

Also in this category is Carolyn Elefant's My Shingle, notable because "Elefant’s personal experience—running a successful practice while building a family—shines through in keen observations on the life and law practice of solo and small-firm lawyers, and the legal industry in general."

In the Geo section, Daniel Schwartz gets some love for his Connecticut Employment Law Blog and his "thoughtful, original posts on the latest news and trends in labor and employment law."

Also in this area is John Hochfelder's New York Injury Cases Blog, dubbed "required reading for anyone in or around personal injury law."

Finally, Real Lawyers Have Blogs was mentioned in the Legal Tech category.

You can vote for your favorites in one of 10 categories; the winners will be announced in the Journal's February issue. Congrats to all our bloggers who were mentioned for the kudos on their work.

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In the closing days of ABA Journal's Blawg contest, we're seeing some dirty politicing.

Ted Frank at Overlawyered has called Quizlaw, down in the vote, on Quizlaw's low blow of today:

And here's the God's honest: Walter Olsen [sic] and Ted Frank, the purveyors of legal smut over on Overlawyered, are robots. Yes. You heard me right. Built by the IBM Corp. sometime in the late 90s and given fake, prestigious resumes (like a University of Chicago graduate would actually blog! ha!), Walter and Ted were programmed to spit out thoughtful, sometimes amusing legal analysis (and relevant links) about cases that actually matter in the world of law, which as we all know defies every tenet of the blogosphere.

Ted took the high road in his response:

We plead guilty to violating blogospheric tradition by knowing what we're talking about, but we do deny that we're robots, much less ones built by IBM. Of course, if we were robots, we'd probably be programmed to deny that we were, so such a denial only gets you so far.

Unlike the Iowa caucuses where negative campaigning doesn't work, QuizLaw's alleged 'scurrilous lobbying' has pulled it to within two votes of Overlawyered in the ABA poll.

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