(We late-thirties married types are proud out of all proportion whenever we can make such a claim.) The last of this week's blawgrollees mostly came my way from Blawg.org (which also mentions the ABA Litigation Section's RSS feed, via Robert Ambrogi, by way of Tom Mighell—neat! Are there more ABA feeds? Are they listed anywhere?):

• Concur In Part either is the joint effort of two law students who go by Reason and Jophiel, or one law student named Jophiel who intermittently is interrupted by the Voice of Reason. I haven't quite decided, but I have decided you should pay them/him a visit.
• Amy Campbell has a Weblog at Harvard, as well as a marketing business (Infoworks!), and in her spare time she helps law firms create award winning newsletters.
• If you've got to have a pseudonym, make it an entertaining one. Like Omnibus Bill, "just another Beltway lawyer," who writes Crimen Falsi and may or may not answer with a Dead Kennedys lyric should you greet him on the street.
• Fragrant Lotus practices law in New York City and remarks on the uncanny staying power of the Swatch.
• Janell Grenier is a benefits and ERISA lawyer in Pennsylvania, and as far as I know is the first to cut a bloggy swath through that particular legal briarpatch.
• Maize-N-Bluebook attends the University of Michigan Law School.
• And in case you thought only the judges were curmudgeonly, The Curmudgeonly Clerk seeks to dispel that misconception.

Finally, blawg news continues to hit my radar the old-fashioned way (links and email). I think I just flashed on the meaning of the title of Joe's blog, B2FXXX (that, or I'm hopelessly depraved), where he writes about law, the Internet and society, and the Baseball Crank emailed to confess he's a lawyer who from time to time will blog about things legal.

I'm off to Eureka, California—not to partake of the Hemp or other secondhand effects of Humboldt State's commencement festivities (though it probably couldn't hurt), but to wish my grandmother-in-law a very happy 80th birthday. Have a delightful weekend.

Interesting article by Tom O'Connor at law.com: "Forward Movement for E-Filing?" The piece mostly discusses new .Net/LegalXML efforts from Microsoft and BearingPoint (press release), and mentions that surcharges for paper court filings may be on the horizon:

Some suggest that the best way to push e-filing to reality is to start charging for filing paper, as banks are doing with checks, and airlines with tickets. Courts may eventually have to do this to discourage paper filings and pay for electronic filing systems.

A 2001 article from the same author, "It's Still Slow Go For E-Filing," provides more context.

My firm's head of Web marketing will be coming to the ClickZ Weblog Business Strategies Conference.

TiVo. Tomorrow's The Screen Savers features Professor Lessig, Buffy, an iTunes tour and the Blog Report. (Cognitive dissonance my hiney.)

Cool link, same source, America 24/7: "an all-digital event that will capture extraordinary pictures of an ordinary American week." I want to see some of Shelley's masterpieces in there.

As long as we're talking telly, I must note that our TiVo—you know how they do that creepy mind-of-their-own thing, right? 'cause we certainly never would program it to seek out such intellectually desiccated fare—seems unable to get enough, by turns, of Trinny and Susannah, and Cousin Stevie. (Hmm, supposing Trinny and Susannah were to give wardrobe advice to Cousin Stevie?)

This batch comes to us from the Blawg Ring:

• Soon to be second year law student Bekah of Mixtape Marathon just finished exams and seems to have some interesting transcendental traits such as channeling the consciences of law professors and shifting Chinese animal signs at will.
• Meg of babybluebubbles is pursuing her Bachelor of Laws at the University of Hong Kong and has the photos (and surgical mask) to prove it.
• Justin's background is in politics, policy and economics, and he'll return to law school this fall after having taken a break for, y'know, life.
• Luke's a law student at Deakin University. (From the "learn something new every day" department: .tk is the domain for Tokelau.)
• Rich Zmijewski is cramming for the LSAT on June 9, but that didn't keep him from catching Matrix Reloaded last night.
• Timothy Sandefur of the Pacific Legal Foundation is an Objectivist but not a Randian. (Just so we're clear.)
• Daniel Goldberg is a law clerk for a judge in Austin, Texas, and enjoys light reading and writing on the subjects of "health policy, medical ethics, philosophy of science, hermeneutics, Kafka, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein." (He's more proof too of the strange but strong correlation between fans of hermeneutics and fans of Buffy.)
• Bart at The Limits of its Logic analyzes legal decisions, commentary, and issues. (And since he arranged that list using a serial comma, I have followed suit.)
• The Ambulance Chaser recently finished 1L exams.
• Aaron at Spicy Sashimi also is a law student somewhere in the wide world.

And yet more to come...

I've just been finishing an article for next month's issue of the CEB Civil Litigation Reporter, all about the joy and wonderment that is California Code of Civil Procedure Section 664.6. Truly. In the meantime, I've been updating the blawgroll in the background and will try to sprinkle the new links at you throughout the day. The first batch is courtesy of Howard Bashman:

• James Carruth studies law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at BYU.
• The oft-cited Professor David Bernstein teaches law at George Mason University School of Law.
• The American Constitution Society is revving up a group blog for its members nationwide.

Also, following up on my earlier post about AB 1165, a reader mentioned the separation of powers difficulties that arise when legislatures seek to enact laws that may usurp the constitutional authority of the courts. This issue is addressed in the L.A. County Bar Appellate Court Committee's April 17 letter to the bill's author (available here), and the California Office of the Attorney General wrote the legislators that:

It is our opinion that AB 1165 as enacted most likely would be found to be an impairment of the core power of the Supreme Court in violation of the separation of powers clause of the California Constitution (Cal. Const. art. 111, 3).

[via the CA Assembly Committee on Judiciary's analysis of AB 1165]

Dominican University's Graduate School of Library and Information Science in River Forest, IL offers a course on Internet Fundamentals and Design, LIS 753:

An introduction to the fundamentals of the Internet, including its origins, evolution, architecture, current issues, and future. Students will gain a basic understanding about Web content languages, Web site management, and design/usability principles. Students will also be introduced to the fundamentals of telecommunications and networking with examples drawn from the Internet. Critical Internet issues such as search engine limitations, security, privacy, copyright, governance, and other related topics will also be discussed.

It appears tomorrow they'll be looking at some weblogs. (Greetings and welcome, folks. Looks like an ecclectic mix of sites you're visiting. A little Technorati told me.)

[Update] Steven Cohen links to the blog of an Iowa University LIS class from Summer 2001. Great example of students sharing class-related material in a lively and convenient manner. Seems markedly better than than those binders full of outlines I used to break my back carting around. (Yeah, I'm aware there's a dark side. Ain't there always?)

A bill currently pending in California legislature, AB 1165, would alter California law to permit the citation of unpublished appellate opinions. (Existing California law provides that unpublished opinions "shall not be cited or relied on by a court or a party in any other action or proceeding.") Last week, AB 1165 failed to pass committee. I serve on the Appellate Courts Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and the Committee now has posted a number of materials related to the issue.