Blawggers Get Props

In the cover story for this month's Washington Lawyer, titled "Do You Blog?" and written by Sarah Kellogg, the world of law-centric blogs, sometimes called "blawgs," is examined and found fruitful. I highly recommend the article for its reasoned approach. Recently, the world of blogging has been taken to task by the so-called Main Stream Media (MSM for short, if you ever happen across that acronym) for being too unaccountable or "biased" - in short, all the things that MSM itself (theoretically) strives not to be. Apples and oranges, I say. Blogs are not journalism, per se (though they can be, and sometimes are). Blogs are merely a tool of publication; to my mind, they are incredibly useful tools for altruism, for knowledge management, for practice, for client relations, for - well, for many purposes, actually.

What motivated this particular blog for Airport Lawyers was, quite frankly, my perception of a lack of unified resources for this unique practice area. Part corporate law, part HR/employment law, part contracts, part government contracts, part regulatory/administrative law, part construction law, part public law - it's a Frankenstein's Monster of the legal world, and there didn't seem to be anyone out there putting it all together and flipping the switch.