LawProfessorBlogs.com includes over 40 blawgs from virtually all topical areas that one can imagine.  The stated goal for these resources are:

Permanent Resources and Links:

• Links to working papers on SSRN, colloquia, and specialized law reviews
• Links to professional organizations for faculty (AALS section, ABA section, etc.)
• Links to think tanks, U.S., state & foreign law sources, publishers, and other web sites of interest

Daily News and Information:

• Upcoming colloquia, conferences, and meetings
• Abstracts of working papers and recently-published scholarship
• Book reviews

…But in actuality they deliver much more than advertised here in the way of case law updates and analysis of legal trends, etc.  Consequently, it’s well worth perusing these blawgs and selecting a few to follow.

…With over 300 online resources being searched.

They also maintain a list of resources which have free full-text available online, but which must be searched/browsed manually.

Cornell University Law Library LEGAL RESEARCH ENGINE

…allows users to do Google-powered searches of

* Legal Research Guides

Prepared, usually by law libraries, to help explain how to do legal research in a particular area.

* The Legal Internet

This is a broad area that can include anything from law firms’ websites that can be information rich or poor,depending on how focused they are on marketing; non-profit organization and government sites, and non-governmental organizations websites all of which tend to be quite information-rich; education institutions which again can be rich sources of information; corporations and private entities, private individuals and miscellaneous sponsors of websites. The question you must ALWAYS ask is WHY have they bothered to put up and maintain the website?

* Academic Blawgs

Many law professors now have blogs on legal topics, or blawgs. Some write on narrow topics, others are all over the map. Some voice their personal opinions, others are writing simply about what the law seems to be. Again, as the consumer, think for yourself.

* or all 3 at once

This appears to be a handy tool worth exploring further…  If you have the opportunity to test it out, let’s hear your feedback.

By Mitchell Berman in the New York University Law Review, courtesy of LegalWorkshop.org:

“The upshot is not that constitutional interpretation should disregard the Framers’ intentions, ratifiers’ understandings, or original public meanings.  Of course we should care about these things.  But we can take the original character of the Constitution seriously without treating it as dispositive.  That original intents and meanings matter is not enough to render originalism true.”

http://legalworkshop.org/

The Legal Workshop is something of a law journal aggregator…  somewhat akin to Legal Scholarship Network at SSRN < http://www.ssrn.com/lsn/index.html >.

Mission:

The Legal Workshop features “op-ed” versions of the articles published by the member journals. These concise and lively pieces are written for a generalist audience, combining the best elements of print and online publication.

Each Legal Workshop Editorial undergoes the same rigorous editorial treatment and quality screening as the journals’ print content, but readers are able to offer comments and esteemed academics have the option of submitting response pieces, which are checked for citations and substance.

By aggregating the work of multiple law reviews, The Legal Workshop is able to provide frequently updated content. New article-based content is posted every Monday and most Wednesdays and Fridays. The Legal Workshop provides a one-stop forum for readers wishing to stay abreast of contemporary legal scholarship.

Current Members:

Cornell Law Review
Duke Law Journal
Georgetown Law Journal
New York University Law Review
Northwestern University Law Review
Stanford Law Review
University of Chicago Law Review

RSS feed:

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/legalworkshop

Enjoy your open and free access to the Mediate.com Video Center!

Once at the Center, be sure to check out the “Inside” and “Search Tabs.” The Video Center includes over 100 hour-long interviews with leading mediators as well as a variety of additional presentations. Note your ability to search video clips by topic or text. It is all rather amazing. Go and take a look!

Interviews are by Robert D. Benjamin and include, among others, the following:

The authors-a federal appellate judge and his law clerks-bring unique perspectives to bear on the topic of opinion writing and opinion readers. The contents of this Article were inspired in large part by the work done by the authors in editing and preparing the second edition of Judge Aldisert’s classic book Opinion Writing, which for many years was distributed to all federal trial and appellate judges, and to all state appellate judges, when they took the bench. A broader audience of professional opinion writers and students of the judicial process now has access to Opinion Writing, 2d Edition, an updated, comprehensive guide intended to be of wide practical use to members of the judiciary, judicial staff attorneys and law clerks, state and federal administrative judges, hearing officers, commissioners and private arbitrators, law librarians, scholars and students. This Article draws from and complements topics addressed in Opinion Writing, 2d Edition, while specifically highlighting the relationship between opinion writing and opinion readers.

Keywords: opinion writing, judicial process, legal writing, appellate, judiciary, clerking

Karl S. Okamoto
Drexel University – Earle Mack School of Law
January 17, 2009
Abstract:
Law schools are giving more and more attention to transactional lawyering. Once relegated to a single course on “business planning,” law school curriculums at every level of law school are being pushed to include a new focus on teaching future practitioners how to do deals. In doing so, law schools are discovering that the skills required to be a proficient transactional lawyer are often different from those needed by litigators or judges. Therefore the curriculum that teaches students how to “think like a lawyer” falls short when the goal becomes to teach them to “think like a deal lawyer.” This article describes a novel transactional lawyering course designed to serve as the “keystone” course in a transactional lawyering curriculum.

Keywords: Lawyering, Pedagogy, Skills Training, Law School Curriculum