Eric, You are absolutely right. The largest gap in the ABA competition are practicing attorney blogs (with the exception of criminal lawyers), particularly the dozens of excellent niche practicing lawyer blogs. It's not just the PI blogs that were left out, but also the family law blogs, trust and estate blogs and others which strike the almost impossible balance between making the law accessible and understandable to lay people on the one hand, yet offering enough sophistication and analysis to capture the attention of lawyers. And, on top of all that, these lawyers are running full time law practices on their own (as opposed to working for large firms where there's a little more support). MyShingle was included in the mix, but to be honest, I'm equally proud of my "sleeper practice blog" on offshore renewable energy where I get to analyze emerging cases (I'm also partial to Blogwatch which is much more challenging to write than MyShingle and still finding its way).
 

Come on, Eric. You should know by now that the only REAL law is BIG law. Lawyers who represent individuals aren't real lawyers; only lawyers with Fortune 500 clients are.
 

They left me out too. I posted about it. Commie bastards!
 

David Gottlieb's post can be found here:

Un-American

Unfortunately, Blogger wouldn't allow me to make this link red, which seems to indicate a conspiracy.
 

Didn't Belli create ATLA because of the politically correct, defense oriented ABA? Now he also liked th dancing girls and alchoal that made his conventions a little wilder as well. ;)
 

Let's face it: to those stiffs and Poindexters in the empty suits at the fancy law firms, any lawyer in a field where the billing rate is less than $250 an hour is just a schlepper, a hondler,a busboy, riffraff (even though every once in a while, one of those empty suits is revealed to be someone who never in fact was admitted to the Bar, or who spends his leisure time hiring underage girls to satiate his lusts in his pied-a-terre). To a lawyer whose practice consists of helping one giant client to either defeat or devour another giant, in matters which generate millions of dollars in fees, a personal injury lawyer for the most part is in the same class as the guys who suddenly appear on Manhattan street corners hawking umbrellas as soon as the first drops of rain fall. Just like in the movie Trading Places, the "important" lawyers are like Dan Ackroyd's Louis Winthorpe III, successful and hubristic commodities broker, and the personal injury lawyers are Eddie Murphy's Billy-Ray Valentine, a down and out street hustler who solicits alms by hiding his feet under a dolly and posing as a legless veteran. It's elitism, it's stupid, it's unfair, but that's the way it is. And this little sample of my writing style should make it evident why my own blog flies under the ABA's radar. Larry Rogak (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheRogakReport)
 

Larry:

I found your home page, but not a blog. And a guy who writes like you do ought to have a blog.