My Clawbies nominations for 2011

Published on December 19, 2011 by Donna Seale

At this time of year, Canadian law bloggers like me look forward to the Canadian Law Blog Awards which have become affectionately known as the ‘Clawbies‘. As noted by Steve Matthews, the creator of the Clawbies:

“The awards recognize the interesting, innovative, and informative sites that are the Canadian legal blogosphere’s best and brightest. But unlike traditional awards, the Clawbies are designed to create awareness for each blogger who nominates another’s blog, and peer endorsements via social media represent a big part of the judging process.

This year, my nominations are for three blogs that I find interesting, topical and happen to be written by solo bloggers like myself:

Youth and Work is a blog written by Toronto lawyer Andrew Langille. As noted on his “About” page, Andrew has established his blog in order to “provide young people with the information they need to succeed in Canada’s increasingly complex economy”. If it relates to millenials and employment — Andrew covers it and covers it well. But his blog doesn’t just have relevance to young people. Employers of millenials will want to read what he has to say as well. I’ve come to know Andrew a bit from discussions we have had on Twitter where you will not only find his blog posts but everything he happens to be reading about or is involved in and which relates to his niche topic.
Toronto lawyer Lisa Stam is the writer behind Employment and Human Rights Law in Canada. Lisa has been blogging since 2009 on a variety of employment law-based topics, including human rights law issues. Her focus is primarily on Ontario law but she often offers commentary and insights that go well beyond the limits of that jurisdiction. Lisa happens to be one of the few female lawyers in Canada who writes a solo blog which, I think I’ve noted before, makes us kindred spirits. While that does not fall under the Clawbie nomination criteria, she’ll always get bonus points from me just for that fact alone;
Although I know he does not need my nomination to top the Clawbie charts, Professor David Doorey’s Doorey’s Workplace Law Blog happens to be the blog I most consistently read and which I most highly recommend. The reason for that is he writes on topics that often fall squarely within the work that I do. Beyond that, I just like the guy’s style! You won’t find any dull lawyer-speak on his blog. He says what he thinks and he writes in an easily consumable manner. These are traits that I still do not see reflected very often in law blogs, Canadian or otherwise.

Good luck to these terrific bloggers. For those of you wanting to know more about the Clawbies or the other great Canadian Law Blogs you can learn from, check out the Clawbies.ca site.

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And the CLawBies go to…..

Published on January 3, 2011 by Donna Seale

…a whole whack of deserving people! And, surprising to me at least, after being nominated for and receiving a ‘runner-up’ nod for a Canadian Law Blog Award (“CLawBie”) in 2007 and 2008, I found myself on the receiving end this year of an award for Best Practitioner Blog, along with my co-winners Antonin Pribetic (who writes the Trial Warrior blog or “blawg” as he prefers) and Dianne Saxe (author of Environmental Law and Litigation blog). As my personal circumstances this year took away from my ability to write on anything resembling a regular basis, I feel very thankful, indeed, to those who chose to nominate me for a CLawBie this year and to Steve Matthews, Jordan Furlong and the team at Stem Legal for choosing Human Rights in the Workplace as worthy of recognition.

I’d like to extend my congratulations to all of this year’s winners and finalists and would encourage you to read the entire results of the 2010 CLawbies — there’s a lot of great stuff being written by the Canadian legal community.

Here’s wishing all of my readers the very best of health and happiness in 2011!

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