We previously blogged our Law Professor Blogs Network’s new three-year exclusive sponsorship agreement with Thomson, the corporate parent of Foundation Press, West Group, and RIA.  Thomson has issued a press release about the sponsorship agreement available here and here: "Law Professor Blogs has rapidly become one of the pre-eminent online destinations for timely, objective critical…

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Über blogger Eugene Volokh has organized a "Bloggers-Meet-Readers"  social tonight at the Zephyr Lounge in the Hyatt Regency Cambridge, 575 Memorial Drive, from 9:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.  I will be there along with 18 of the other participants (list here) in town for our Bloggership Conference tomorrow. I hope readers in the Boston area…

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We are delighted to announce that our Law Professor Blogs Network has signed a three-year exclusive sponsorship agreement with Thomson, the corporate parent of Foundation Press, West Group, and RIA.  We are grateful for the support we have received from LexisNexis, our prior sponsor, and are looking forward to working with Thomson for many years…

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Über blogger Eugene Volokh has organized a "Bloggers-Meet-Readers" social the night before our Bloggership Conference.  Nineteen Law Prof bloggers (including yours truly; complete list here) will be hanging out at the bar at the conference hotel (the Zephyr Lounge in the Hyatt Regency Cambridge, 575 Memorial Drive) from 9:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. this Thursday,…

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Michael Kirsch’s post on Monday, Cheney Tax Return Shows Katrina Tax Benefits for Non-Katrina Charitable Contributions, has spawned a great deal of attention in the blogosphere.  Here is how the post has moved the traffic needle on TaxProf Blog: The post has generated more comments (133) than any of the other 4,800 posts on TaxProf…

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Please join with me today in celebrating the two year anniversary of TaxProf Blog. I hope we have at least partially succeeded in our mission (announced in our very first post here) to provide both (1) permanent resources & links, and (2) daily news & information, of interest to law school tax professors, tax lawyers…

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Please take a moment to fill out our short reader survey here. (It will take you less than one minute to complete.)  Thus far, 230 readers have filled out the survey, and we would like to hear from our many other readers so we can better serve you.  We also want to know if you…

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Please take a moment to fill out our short reader survey here.  We would like to have a better idea about who is reading this blog so we can better serve you.  Thanks in advance for your help.  (The survey will remain at the top of the middle column throughout this week.)

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We are delighted to announce the launch of two new blogs as part of our Law Professor Blogs Network: Law & Econ Prof Blog (Jagdeep Bhandari (Florida Coastal) & Tom Ulen (Illinois)) Unicorporated Business Law Prof Blog (Greg Duhl (Southern Illinois)) Like the other blogs in our network, these blogs combines both (1) permanent resources…

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Ian Best, a 3L at Ohio State (home of uber blogger Doug Berman) is compiling a Taxonomy of Legal Blogs.  Thus far, he has identified 475 legal blogs.

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Jeff Hanson, Editor of Moneysmartz, has published a very favorable review of TaxProf Blog here.  My favorite lines: Description: A blend of reference tools and announcements about developing tax issues targeting tax professors but with applicability to individuals looking for current news and information about tax law Unique Features: Significant resource section with links to…

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Thanks to the wizardry of my tech partner Joe Hodnicki, I am delighted to announce several improvements to the left column resources on TaxProf Blog: We have replaced the perpetually out-of-date list of law school tax professors with easy to use web search tools: Google Scholar SSRN Law Schools We have expanded the listings and…

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The local business paper profiled Tax Prof Blog this week and included a great quote from Intelliseek: Pete Blackshaw, an executive with the blog-monitoring firm Intelliseek, called Caron a "minor rock star" among blog writers. "The quality of the other influencers that are linking to him suggests this guy carries very unique currency," he said.…

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Brian Leiter of our sister Leiter’s Law School Reports blog notes that a former Princeton grad student is selling "Secretly Reads Brian Leiter" tee-shirts here.  Brian reports: I should note, publicly, that I know about it, and I even get some modest payment per shirt sold. That being said, I don’t own one myself, and…

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Kudos to our sister blog — Doug Berman’s Sentencing Law & Policy — for winning the 2005 Blawg Review Award for "Best Blawg by a Law Professor."  Although we were shut out in the awards, one of the winners — Patent Baristas for Best Blawg Theme — noted:  "We’d like to see a nod to…

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Interesting post by Steve Bainbridge on one of the downsides of blogging: I just discovered one cost of blogging – I lost out on a potential expert witness designation because I had written something negative about the prospective client here on the blog. And, no, it wasn’t in one of my political rants – it…

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Today is the final day to vote for one of the 15 nominees for the 2005 Best Law Blog Award in the 2005 Weblog Awards.  TaxProf Blog is currently in 10th place, so we need a final push to make sure we stay out of the cellar!  To vote, go here.

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There are only three days left to vote for one of the 15 nominees for the 2005 Best Law Blog Award in the 2005 Weblog Awards.  Although TaxProf Blog has no chance of wining in a category that includes many of the Big Kahunas of the law blog world, but we are thrilled to be…

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