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Koehler Law honored as top 100 legal blog
Jamison Koehler
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03/18/2026
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I received notice the other day that my criminal defense blog – the Koehler Law blog – has been included as a top 100 legal...
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Fault Lines is the Seinfeld of the Criminal Blogosphere
Jamison Koehler
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01/10/2016
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Ken Womble of Fault Lines won the Simple Justice award for blog entry of 2015 and that is fitting. Scott Greenfield has been complaining about...
Jefferson Memorial
ABA Blawg 100 for 2013
Jamison Koehler
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11/26/2013
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I was honored to be included again on the ABA Journal’s list of the top 100 law blogs, this time for 2013. The Journal is...
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PDS Launches Criminal Law Blog
The Public Defender Service (PDS) has just begun a blog — the PDS Criminal Law Blog — that reviews recent D.C. Court of Appeals opinions. ...
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The ABA Journal’s Most-Voted-For Criminal Justice Blog for 2012
Jamison Koehler
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01/03/2013
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This blog again received the most popular votes in the criminal justice category of the ABA Blawg 100. Thank you very much to everyone who...
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Blawg Review #316: Where Are They Now?
Jamison Koehler
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04/07/2012
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In the Blawg Review I hosted last year, “Images from the Criminal Law Blawgosphere,” I took a look at the photographs bloggers use on their...
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On Starting a Law Blog: 10 Handy-Dandy Tips from a B-List Criminal Defense Blogger
Jamison Koehler
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02/26/2012
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  A while back, a criminal defense lawyer who was starting his own practice in D.C. called to ask me for advice on starting a...
Jefferson Memorial
I’ll Press “Publish”
Jamison Koehler
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01/18/2012
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  Many mornings before the start of a trial, I find myself writing a blog entry.  This initially struck me as odd. Shouldn’t I be...
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The ABA Journal’s Most-Voted-For Criminal Justice Blog for 2011
Jamison Koehler
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01/04/2012
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  Thank you very much to everyone who voted in the 2011 ABA Journal Blawg 100.  Included among the list of top 100 blogs overall,...
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The 2011 ABA Journal Blawg 100
Jamison Koehler
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12/02/2011
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Last year I wrote about the ABA’s annual list of the top 100 legal blogs – the ABA Journal Blawg 100 – asking readers to...
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Rakofsky v. The Washington Post: Being on the Other End of the Attorney-Client Relationship
Over at My Shingle, Carolyn Elefant muses about finding herself on the other end of the attorney-client relationship; in this case, as one of over...
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Resuscitating the Joseph Rakofsky Fiasco
Jamison Koehler
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05/13/2011
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Last month, in what has to be one of Daniel Snyder’s stupidest moves ever, the Washington Redskins’ owner filed suit against the City Paper for...
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Telling Your Wife You Have Been Sued For Defamation
Jamison Koehler
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05/12/2011
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My wife heard a lot of terrible and heart-wrenching stories while interviewing Iraqi victims of the Abu Ghraib torture. She was always completely spent whenever...
Jefferson Memorial
Blawg Review #296: Images From The Criminal Law Blawgosphere
Jamison Koehler
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01/30/2011
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A professional photographer and artist once told me the story about trying to photograph his mother. He had hoped for a candid shot, and was...
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On Norm Pattis and “The Happysphere”
Jamison Koehler
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06/26/2010
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  Norm Pattis was in town this weekend, and Mirriam Seddiq and I joined him last night for dinner at Oyamel restaurant.  Seddiq’s brother works...