Blogs and the bench
The majority of judicial decisions are based on case law. But some judges are starting to look to legal blogs to help form their opinions.
The hundreds of legal blogs on the Web range from "a day in the life of a lawyer" to scholarly legal research.
Recent law school grad and legal blog taxonomer Ian Best from Ohio has created a legal blog taxonomy on his Web site 3L Ephiphany. Best says he has found 27 cases where judges have cited legal blogs in their rulings.
One of the most often cited blogs is Sentencing Law and Policy by Doug Berman, Professor at the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University.
