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Nominations Open for the 2010 Clawbies

Nominations are open for the 2010 Clawbies, , honoring the best in Canadian legal blogs.

My old blog, KM Space, was a past two-time winner of a Clawbie: Friend of the North 2007 and Friend of the North 2008. Compliance Building stayed on the Clawbie list for 2009.

It looks like I didn’t pay much attention to Canada during 2010, since I only published two Canada posts:

With the flurry of regulatory changes happening south of the 49th Parallel, I have not paid much attention to the Canadian law blogs dealing with compliance, privacy, ethics and other topics that interest me here at Compliance Building.

I will throw two blogs in for nominations:

  1. Brian Bowman – On the Cutting Edge. This was the only Canadian blog that made it into one of my blog posts for 2010. It’s only fair that I nominate it.
  2. The Business Ethics Blog by Chris MacDonald. He has a Ph.D. instead of a JD and business ethics is not a pure legal topic. However, if business lawyers are not thinking about business ethics, then they are not doing their jobs very well. Just because something is legal, does not mean it is ethical or a questionable move by the company.

I would also throw Stem Legal’s Law Firm Web Strategy blog and Jordan Furlong’s Law 21 into pool, but since they are sponsors, I assume they are not eligible. (Oddly, Law 21 garnered a nomination from the American Bar Association for their Blawg 100. I guess the ABA is looking to annex Canada.)

CLawBie Nominations

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The Canadian Law Blog Awards, a.k.a. the Clawbies, are a project started back in 2006 with the goal of highlighting great blogs published by the Canadian legal industry. Steve Matthews and his team at Stem Legal have been working to advance Canadian legal blogging. They just opened up the nominations for your favourite Canadian law blogs in 2009.

My old blog, KM Space, won a CLawbie in 2007, sharing the Friend of the North Award (Getting US bloggers to link into Canada.) with Jason Eiseman’s Jason the Content Librarian. KM Space shared the 2008 award with blogging superstar Mary Abraham’s Above and Beyond KM.

I am offering a few nominations for 2009.

SLAW.ca It’s hard to compete with the blog when it comes to Canadian legal content. They have all-star list of contributors to this and cover a broad swath of legal issues and the business of law.

Thoughtful Legal Management. David Bilinsky does a great job of looking at the business of law.

Canadian Privacy Law Blog. David T.S. Fraser puts together great content on the issues of privacy.

Unfortunately, I have not run across many Canadian legal blogs that address the issues of compliance I cover here at Compliance Building. Let me know if I am missing a good blog to read.