Tuesday, March 20, 2007 5:39 AM
I find myself more and more turning to the blawgosphere for context, background and differing viewpoints on headlines I see in the mainstream and legal press. Yesterday, it was the Patriot Act, Blawgosphere Revisits the Patriot Act, and this morning it was the start of the Conrad Black trial.
Lynne Marek at The National Law Journal is covering the Black trial and her piece Conrad Black Trial Opens, Jurors Questioned on Media Exposure was published at Law.com this morning. After reading Ms. Marek's article, I dove into the blawgosphere. Sure enough, the Black trial is being actively followed from myriad vantage points.
To give you a sampling, here are some of the headlines:
Poll: Will Conrad win? - Precedent: The New Rules of Law and Style
Small-Firm Stars Get Set to Defend Conrad Black - The Legal Reader
Steyn on Conrad Black trial - Point of Law
How To Pick A Jury For A Lord - Deliberations
Conrad Blacks Trial Gets Underway - Media Law Prof Blog
Conrad Black Lawyers Ask For Delay; Judge Says No - Law Blog - WSJ.com
Jury Selection for the Very Rich - Trial Ad Notes
After you check out some of the above, you may also want to try your own search, especially in coming weeks as more and more posts covering this trial go online. To get you started, you can click here to try the same search I used this morning. If you like that search, you can also subscribe to the search results, so that as new "hits" come online, you are notified [to do this, simply click this: RSS Search Results: 
, which you will see at top and right next to your search results]. Or, you may prefer to simply subscribe directly to any of the blawg's noted above, and have their updates come directly to you via your favorite feed reader. No one ever said weblog technologies don't give you lots of options.
Good stuff.