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How so, exactly? For the first time, the ABA Journal's extensive favorites list has added a web tools category that includes apps, subscription services and other digital solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article evaluates the journal's law website blog for lawyers known as the Web 100.

The article focuses on the importance of blogging for lawyers. Topics include the efforts of law firms to achieve search engine optimization (SEO) for an easy access to the websites of law blogs, the issuance of a formal ethics opinion by California State Bar on lawyer's use of the Internet for business development and a ruling by the Florida State Bar's Standing Committee on Advertising on the violation of state ethics rules on the website of a law firm, as of April 2014.

The article reviews web sites of interest for Australian lawyers, including the blog Sam Hopper Barrister located at http://samhopperbarrister.com, another blog dedicated to property law titled The Property Law Blog at http://roberthaypropertybarrister.wordpress.com, and the Owners Corporation Online Conflict Management Tool located at www.apartmentlaw.com.au.

The article offers the author's insight on the use and benefits of legal blog sites that cover a variety of topics in which any member of a group can post anything on the site. She discusses reservations to blog sites, wherein, bloggers need to choose which groups they belong . She offers suggestions on how to take advantage of legal blog sites from reading posts and comments without taking much of the time.

The article reviews several websites, including the Victorian Water Register, located at http://waterregister.vic.gov.au, the Commonwealth of Australia Explanatory Memoranda (1980-), located at www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/bill_em, and the LawSites blog, located at www.lawsitesblog.com.

The article reviews several websites including the European Court of Human Rights Search Portal, located at www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/EN/hudoc, the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), located at www.ssrn.com, and the Cogent Legal Blog, located at http://cogentlegal.com/blog.

The article lists the 6th Annual American Bar Association (ABA) Journal Blawg 100 Fan Favorites selected after online voting by readers and includes law blogs Business of Law: Divorce Discourse, Careers/Law Schools: Inside the Law School Scam and Corporate: California Corporate & Securities Law.

The author offers tips on writing a law-related blog or blawg. He suggests examining others' blogs from a reader's perspective, taking notes on things like design and writing style, topic choices and hyperlinking methods. He cites the American Bar Association (ABA) Journal Blawg Directory and the Canadian Law Blogs List as good sites to find a list of active blogs. He talks about blogging for fun and profit, how to gather ideas for the blog, and air traffic control for social media.

The article offers information on the most popular law blogs chosen by the readers in the U.S. Some of the blogs mentioned are written mostly by lawyers and include 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, TheCorporateCounsel.net Blog on federal securities laws, and Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog. The chosen blogs covered nearly twelve categories including Torts, Criminal justice and Law business.

The author discusses the advantages of legal blogging. The author says that blogging in law provides data on legal issues that cannot be easily obtained from traditional source and helps communicate unwelcome things or issues to a profession in a constructive way. He discusses several examples of legal blogging including a post by Matt Evans at the site of Justice Gap, a post by Francis Fizgibbon on the swearing at police, and posts by Marc Gender and Richard Dunstan concerning bad law.

The article reports on the use of blogs by attorneys in Northeast Ohio to provide updated information on changes in areas of law such as healthcare and labor and to generate publicity for their law firms. Jonathan Hyman of Kohrman Jackson and Krantz says that he does not talk about topics that might portray a negative image of his client. Jayne Juvan of Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan and Aronoff LLP states that it could also be used to market the region.