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Legal Planet is selected as one of ABA’s Blawg 100: Vote online for Legal Planet for best “niche” blog
Each year, the editors of the American Bar Association’s ABA Journal selects the 100 best blogs by and for lawyers. This year, they selected Legal Planet as one of them, out of 3,500 eligible blogs. Now, blog readers get to vote for their favorites, and we’d love to have your vote. The journal editors categorize the …
CONTINUE READINGWelcoming a New Blogger
We’re pleased to welcome Alex Wang to Legal Planet. He is beginning a two-year term as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Berkeley Law School. Alex comes here following six years as a Senior Attorney and Director of the China Environmental Law Project for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). He worked on environment and energy …
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CONTINUE READINGLegal Planet Nomination
Legal Planet has been nominated as one of the top fifty environmental blogs. To find out more and learn how to have input into nomination process and vote on the final selections, please go to the Lexis-Nexis website. We’re very pleased to have made the initial list, given Lexis-Nexis’s standards: For the first time, this …
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CONTINUE READING1001
1001 of what? Arabian nights? No, 1001 posts on Legal Planet — including this one. As of today, that’s the total number, along with over 300,000 views. We’ve only been on-line for a little over a year. As Al Jolson used to say in the days of vaudeville ,” you ain’t seen nothing yet.”
CONTINUE READINGLet’s Not Play the Blame Game Here.
I feel that it is important to take a clear position regarding Jonathan’s post this morning, which related to an alleged comment attributed by the press to me regarding a potential Supreme Court appointment. Candor is critical. Were mistakes made? Yes. Have we taken corrective action? Yes. The staff member responsible for the alleged comment …
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CONTINUE READINGHappy Birthday, Legal Planet!
Legal Planet has had almost 240,000 viewings in its first year of operation.
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