Legal Feeds on Twitter

Posted on October 29, 2008 by | Leave a comment

So you’re pretty hip, right? You’ve got the connections. The blog. The Facebook account. You’re even on Twitter (whatever that is …). Whether you know how to use it or not, Twitter is the direction in which the Internet is taking communication (or is communication going there anyway?) so here is a handy list of legal news feeds that you can currently subscribe to on Twitter, courtesy of the brain trust over at JD Supra (the best damn legal form site you can build for $10,000,000!)

  • ABAJournal – continuous news updates from the ABA’s “leading legal affairs magazine and website”…
  • LexMonitor – from LexBlog, a daily review of law blogs and journals, highlighting prominent legal discussion on all subjects…
  • PhilaCourts – streaming Philadelphia court news…
  • lawtweets – U.K. law news and tweets (one of the first legal news feeds via Twitter, from Nick Holmes and infolaw)…
  • tradelawnews – news and information on export controls, customs law, the FCPA, antidumping law, and other international trade issues…
  • ImmAdvocates – from Immigration Advocates Network, a free online network that supports legal advocates working on behalf of immigrants’ rights nationwide…
  • overlawyered – feed of posts from “the oldest law blog” skewering everything litigious…
  • pointoflaw – feed from the web magazine sponsored by the Manhattan Institute; information and opinion on the U.S. litigation system…
  • Farmworker Justice – from Harvesting Justice, advocates for farmworkers’ and immigrants’ rights…
  • technola – from the eponymous technology blog for legal aid and public interest advocates…
  • lawiscool – feeds from a Canadian law school blog and podcast…
  • Copyright Law – relevant links from multiple news sources, culled by prof. Michael Scott, Southwestern Law School…
  • juristnews – real-time legal news from Jurist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law…
  • SEC Investor Ed. – links to updates from the Securities and Exchange Commission…
  • Technology & Media Alerts – feed of alerts and news covering legislation and developments in Technology, Media, and Communications law (fr. JD Supra)…
  • Commercial Law Alerts – alerts and news covering developments in commercial law: securities, taxation, banking, antitrust, etc (JD Supra)…
  • Law Practice News – articles and newsletters covering issues, products, and services in Legal Practice (JD Supra)…
  • Legal Alerts – newsletters, articles, and alerts covering all subjects & published by lawyers, firms, & legal professionals on JD Supra.

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