ABA Journal 100 Best Blawgs List : Nominations end Friday

Want to nominate a legal blog for the ABA Journal’s annual list of the 100 best legal blogs? Act now. Nominations end tomorrow, September 9.

From the ABA Journal:

Use the [form on the ABA Journal website] to tell us about a blawg—not your own—that you read regularly and think other lawyers should know about. Or if you don’t have particular blawgs in mind but think blawgs from a certain practice areas should be represented in the Blawg 100, you can use this form to let us know which ones. If there is more than one blawg you want to support, feel free to send us additional amici through the form. We may include some of the best comments in our Blawg 100 coverage. But keep your remarks pithy—you have a 500-character limit.

Criteria to keep in mind per the ABA Journal:

• We’re only interested in blawgs in which the author is recognizable as a lawyer or law student in the vast majority of his or her posts.
• The blawg should be written with an audience of lawyers or law students—rather than potential clients or potential law students—in mind.
• The majority of the blawg’s content should be unique to the blawg and not cross-posted or cut and pasted from other publications.
• We are not interested in blawgs that more or less exist to promote the author’s products and services.

Interesting that only blogs authored by an individual lawyer or law student are eligible. Excluded are blogs where the author is listed as a law firm or practice group of a law firm.

Wake up call here for some law firms who do not appreciate that information, insight, and commentary in social media comes from people, not organizations.

Good luck to all.