1L Year - How to Succeed

One of the best ways to keep up with developments in the legal world is to pay attention to legal blogs.
 

• Above The Law Twitter: @atlblog (legal news and gossip)
• Constitutional Daily Twitter: @Con_Daily (legal news and blogging)
• How Appealing Twitter: @howappealing (legal news and analysis)
• Law and the Multiverse Twitter: @LawATMultiverse (analyzes legal problems in comic books)
• Law Professor Blogs Network (various blogs providing subject specific analysis)
• Lawyerist Twitter: @Lawyerist (law firm news and blogging)
• Legal Solutions Blog Twitter: @LegalSolutions (legal tools from Thomson Reuters)
• Legal Theory Blog Twitter: @lsolum (philosophy of law and legal analysis)
• SCOTUSblog Twitter:@SCOTUSblog (news and analysis related to the Supreme Court)
• The Careerist Twitter:@lawcareerist (legal news and gossip)
• The Law Insider Twitter: @lawinsider (law firm news and blogging)
• The Volokh Conspiracy  Twitter: @VolokhC (conservative/libertarian law professors blogging about the law)
• Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog Twitter:@WSJlawblog (legal news)

​Another good way to keep up with news in the practice area you're interested in is to set up news alerts.

BNA Law Reports
After signing in, click the header on the right that says “Manage Email Notifications”, then select and add practice areas that you’re interested in. You can choose to receive news as it happens, or in a digest form. Don’t forget to go to allow BNA to send alerts to your email address if you want to receive them that way. To find that setting, go to the Saved Searches & Alerts tab at the very top, and select the “Settings” tab.

You can also automatically receive news items related to your search terms with these tools:
Google Alerts
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