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PRACTICE · BLOGGING
Some New Zealand lawyer blogs Blogs come and go. Some have one glorious opening post, and that’s it. Others are busily and efficiently maintained. To qualify for our list, the blog must have had at least one post in 2017, be about New Zealand and be operated by a lawyer, legal academic or former member of the legal profession.
most of my readers are lawyers but there are definitely lay people too, including journalists who have quoted from my blog from time to time in articles.” He says part of the aim of a legal blog is to have some influence on legal decisions made at various levels in society. “Maybe there would be some benefit to judges looking at what legal academic bloggers are saying about an issue. When they do, they tend to refer to them as legal scholars, not bloggers though,” he says. Other lawyers who regularly blog in New Zealand include Graeme Edgeler at Legal Beagle and former politician Stephen Franks. Many law firms also now include a blog on their website. ▪
• Adrianne McLean Barrister: Adrianne McLean akmlaw.co.nz/blog • Criminal Law Casebook: Don Mathias nzcriminallaw.blogspot.co.nz • Double Aspect: Leonid Sirota doubleaspect.blog • Dukesons Business Law: Steven Dukeson dukesons.co.nz/blog • Imperator Fish: Scott Yorke imperatorfish.com • Laurent Law Blog: Simon Laurent blog.laurentlaw.co.nz • LawHawk: Gene Turner blog.lawhawk.nz/blog • Legal Beagle: Graeme Edgeler publicaddress.net/legalbeagle • Legal Solutions: Various legalsolutions.net.nz/news.html • Mark Donovan Barrister: Mark Donovan markdonovan.co.nz/category/blog • Martelli McKegg: Various martellimckegg.co.nz/topnav/blog.aspx • Media Law Journal: Steven Price medialawjournal.co.nz • Online Lawyers: John Shingleton onlinelawyers.nz/blog • Pundit: Andrew Geddis et al pundit.co.nz • Stephen Franks: Stephen Franks stephenfranks.co.nz • The Acquit Blog: Jeremy Bioletti seriousfraud.blogspot.co.nz • The IT Countrey Justice: David Harvey theitcountreyjustice.wordpress.com • TheLawShop Blog: Paula Lines thelawshop.co.nz/blog • The New Lawyer: Katie Cowan thenewlawyer.co.nz/bloggityblog • University of Otago Law Library Blog: Kate Thompson otagolawlibrary.blogspot.co.nz • Your Savvy Lawyers’ Blog: Simpson Western simpsonwestern.co.nz/your_savvy_lawyer_blog 57