City Ethics
Breaking the oxymoron: "City Ethics"

Getting the Word Out to Lawyers

Anonymous

The <i>American Bar Association Journal</i> does a list of the best law-related
blogs each year, and I thought I'd ask my readers to help get this list to work for a good cause: getting more lawyers to learn about local government ethics. City Ethics will get nothing out of being named to the list. To
see last year's list (it's broken up into categories; City Ethics
would fall under "niche"), <a href="http://www.abajournal.com/blawg100/2010&quot; target="”_blank”">click here</a>.<br>
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This being the ABA, getting on the list is based on how
many people fill out <a href="http://www.abajournal.com/blawgs/blawg100_submit/&quot; target="”_blank”">a form
known as a Blawg 100 Amici</a>. It only takes a minute to fill
out. You can write up to 500 words about why you're "a fan" of the
City Ethics blog, or just something short.<br>
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For what it's worth, here are the criteria for submitting an amici:<br>
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There are no specific criteria that a blawgger can meet to be
guaranteed a spot on the Blawg 100. And we think our list would
suffer if there were. A blawg’s whole can be greater than the sum
of its parts, and a blawg that never fails to post that daily
update, has a beautiful design and an unwavering topical focus can
very often have less of an impact than another blawg that is less
consistent on all fronts.<br>
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That said, please keep these criteria in mind when submitting
Blawg 100 amici:<ul>
• We’re only interested in blawgs in which the author is
recognizable as a lawyer or law student in the vast majority of his
or her posts. <br>
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• The blawg should be written with an audience of lawyers or law
students – rather than potential clients or potential law students –
in mind. <br>
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• The majority of the blawg’s content should be unique to the blawg
and not cross-posted or cut and pasted from other publications. <br>
• We are not interested in blawgs that more or less exist to promote
the author’s products and services. </ul>

Robert Wechsler<br>
Director of Research-Retired, City Ethics<br>
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203-859-1959