blawg

English

Etymology

Blend of blog +‎ law. Coined by American lawyer and podcaster Denise Howell.

Noun

blawg (plural blawgs)

1. (Internet) A weblog dealing with topics related to the law.
   • 2004, American Bar Association, Student lawyer: Volume 33:

     Keeping a blawg also can be helpful when you update your resume and compose cover letters […]

   • 2006, Carole A. Levitt, Mark E. Rosch, The lawyer's guide to fact finding on the Internet, page 738:

     If there is a blawg you would like to see added, please feel free to suggest that we add it to the list.

   • [2010 November 11, Ben Zimmer, “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine‎:

     The vowel of blog can mutate, as when law blogs are called blawgs or requests via blog posts are called blegs (combining blog and beg).]

Derived terms

• blawger
• blawgosphere

Verb

blawg (third-person singular simple present blawgs, present participle blawging, simple past and past participle blawged)

1. (Internet) To write about legal topics on a blog.
   • 2007, Anna P. Hemingway, “The ethical obligations of lawyers, law students and law professors telling stories on web logs”, in The Law Teacher, volume 41, number 3, page 294:

     Finally, do legal professionals owe a duty to society in general when blawging?

   • 2009, Judy M. Cornett, "The Ethics of Blawging: A Genre Analysis", Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Volume 41, Issue 1, Fall 2009, page 233:

     When attorneys began blawging, their discourse was not so clearly public, despite the fact that blawgs are far more accessible to many more people than any advertisement.

   • 2013, David S. Levine, “What Can We Do on Monday to Improve Our Teaching?”, in Chapman Law Review‎, volume 17, number 1, page 32:

     For example, I do this regularly in Internet Law through requiring my students to blawg.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:blawg.