Blog + Law = Blawg

Blog is a fusion of the words web and log, or an online journal. How popular are blogs? Well, one indicator is blog search engine Technorati, which is currently tracking a whopping 105.1 million blogs.

My good friend Bill Gratsch, a Detroit lawyer who specializes in web technologies for the legal community, was clever enough to take the fusion one step further when he created blawg.com, a law blog directory which currently tracks over 1,700 blogs whose focus is various aspects of the law.

Bill recently started writing his own blog for blawg, the Blawg Blog, and asked me if I'd write a weekly blog entry for it highlighting books about the law, from fiction to non-fiction and academic to popular.

Well, you know that I wouldn't be writing this blog entry if I'd turned down Bill's invitation. Now every Saturday you'll find a new book report from me in my latest gig as the Blawg Book Highlighter.

My first book report is on One L, Scott Turow's memoir about his first year at Harvard Law School. Read it here.