I will be out of the office, at an undisclosed location, for reasons relating to my wedding anniversary on Monday and Tuesday of this week. Blogging will resume on Wednesday, August 27. In the meantime, I encourage you to visit any and all of the other legal bloggers listed to our left.
Thank you, and please keep checking back.
A client and professional compatriot to whom I had dropped a mention of this site asked me the Basic Question, "Just what exactly is a blog?" Rather than craft my own explanation, allow me to refer you to the excellent overview offered at Statutory Construction Zone. Here is the basic definitional excerpt:
An accurate but incomplete answer is that a weblog is a kind of website. Like other websites, to get access to one, all you have to do is type in the web address. Like other websites, you can find them by using major search engines like Yahoo! and Google.You should definitely read the whole thing if you are curious, as it goes on in some detail on the particular subject of legal blogging. (Thanks to The Southern California Law Blog for the reminder and link to this useful discussion.)
What distinguishes weblogs from other websites is the way in which they present information. Weblogs are generally in a diary format—that is, in chronological order, with the most recent entry at the top and with the date of each entry indicated on the weblog. The entries, known as posts, vary widely in frequency. Some bloggers add new material to their weblogs several times a day. Others may add new material only every few weeks.
Declarations and Exclusions is going national it seems, drawing links and attention from outside California. Thanks go out to the latest sites linking to us, as to return links in our left column. Here are the latest, and we urge our readers to give them a look.
Attorney Dave Stratton of the Washington, D.C., firm of Jordan, Coyne & Savits, LLP, has launched an Insurance Defense Blog. Dave is focusing on the D.C./Maryland area (just as this site focuses on California), as well as insurance defense issues of more general interest. Well worth your time to check it out.
Elsewhere, we have also been added to the abundant links to be had at DAILY WHIRL, where Robert Helmer is gathering links to over 100 law-related sites, presented in a customizable format to allow you to follow the latest posting on the sites that fit your particular interests. This looks to be a useful tool for one-stop shopping when hunting up the legal information and comment.
This is what comes of blogging from airports with incomplete access to one's own records: In the notes of thanks to other legal bloggers posted here yesterday, I missed a few. So additional thanks -- and a strong encouragement to my readers to click through and see what's to see -- go out to Inter Alia, the Internet Legal Research weblog of Tom Mighell, and to Corp Law Blog, the work of Los Angeles mergers & acquisitions attorney (currently on a brief vacation) Mike O'Sullivan.
I have been traveling with only limited opportunity for connectivity over the past several days, so there have been no new posts to this site. If you are interested, details can be had at my personal/cultural/political blog, A Fool in the Forest, where concrete legal information is rare, but musings on the actual life of this particular lawyer occasionally come ashore.
Over the week or so that this site has been public, several other legal bloggers have kindly noted and linked it. My thanks go out to all of them (and to any I haven't caught in the referrer log yet). You should click through and take a look at them, if you don't habitually do so already. In no particular order, thanks go out to:
The Southern California Law Blog, where you can find a report on a conflict between panels on the Second Distrcit Court of Appeal over the issue of whether an attorney who learns there is no "probable cause" for a suit after it has been filed, but continues to pursue it anyway, can later be held liable for malicious prosecution. This is the sort of issue we would report on here, if this site had existed when the initial decisions came down.
Bag and Baggage the blog of appellate and intellectual property lawyer Denise Howell, is very informative and has a nicely tuned personal voice. Denise has kindly linked to both of my blogs.
And Kevin J. Heller atTechLawAdvisor.com , another worthwhile site focusing on Internet and Intellectual Property issues, noted this site in his - SideBar - section.
