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As follow-up to our recent list - Legal News Feeds on Twitter - here is an index of new Twitter accounts established specifically to stream legal documents posted on JD Supra.

These news feeds are also available in RSS and/or widget form:

- Legal Alerts - newsletters, articles, and alerts covering all legal subjects...

- The Global Financial Crisis - analysis and legal perspective to do with all aspects of the current financial crisis...

- Commercial Law - analysis & alerts covering developments in commercial law: securities, taxation, banking, antitrust, bankruptcy, and much more...

- Technology & Media - analysis & alerts covering legislation and developments in technology, media, and communications law...

- Environment & Energy - analysis & alerts covering legislation and developments in the areas of environment and energy...

- Law Practice - newsletters, articles, and thought-pieces published by legal professionals about issues, products, and services in legal practice...

- Hot Documents - a stream of filings and legal documents from new and noteworthy cases, shared by the lawyers and firms involved...

 

Many of these news feeds are, at time of writing, newly created. Check back soon for the next round, covering an even wider array of subjects and practice fields. (Incl. Labor & Employments, Securities, IP, Trusts & Estates, and more.)

Lawyers and legal professionals, if you have work that fits the feed, post it now:

Join JD Supra: showcase your expertise by sharing your written work online.

And everyone: follow the feeds!

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 Legal News Feeds on Twitter

Expanding Your Online Reach with RSS and Widgets

Lawyers and Legal Professionals on Twitter

 

 

For your reference, here is a list of legal news feeds to follow on Twitter.

I've limited this index to Twitter accounts that automatically (and solely) stream links to articles, alerts, and news on legal subjects. My suggestion: simply "follow" whichever streams interest you the most. A few notes on methodology below.

• ABAJournal - continuous news updates from the ABA's "leading legal affairs magazine and website"...
• LexMonitor - from LexBlog, a daily review of law blogs and journals, highlighting prominent legal discussion on all subjects...
• The Financial Crisis - legal analysis, alerts, articles related to the global financial crisis, provided by leading lawyers and firms, and streamed by JD Supra...
• JD Supra Hot Docs - legal documents (filings, decisions, etc.) from newsworthy cases, shared by the lawyers and firms involved...
• FERC- stream of alerts and news from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission...
• PhilaCourts - streaming Philadelphia court news...
• lawtweets - U.K. law news and tweets (one of the first legal news feeds via Twitter, from Nick Holmes and infolaw)...
• tradelawnews - news and information on export controls, customs law, the FCPA, antidumping law, and other international trade issues...
• ImmAdvocates - from Immigration Advocates Network, a free online network that supports legal advocates working on behalf of immigrants' rights nationwide...
• overlawyered - feed of posts from "the oldest law blog" skewering everything litigious...
• pointoflaw - feed from the web magazine sponsored by the Manhattan Institute; information and opinion on the U.S. litigation system...
• Farmworker Justice - from Harvesting Justice, advocates for farmworkers' and immigrants' rights...
• Jaffe Legal News Service - "world's oldest online legal news service" ...
• technola - from the eponymous technology blog for legal aid and public interest advocates...
• lawiscool - feeds from a Canadian law school blog and podcast...
• Copyright Law - relevant links from multiple news sources, culled by prof. Michael Scott, Southwestern Law School...
• Womble Carlyle - a stream of alerts, news, analysis from firm Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice...
• juristnews - real-time legal news from Jurist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law...
• SEC Investor Ed. - links to updates from the Securities and Exchange Commission...
• Technology & Media Alerts - alerts and news covering legislation and developments in Technology, Media, and Communications law (fr. JD Supra)...
• Commercial Law Alerts - alerts and news covering developments in commercial law: securities, taxation, banking, antitrust, etc (JD Supra)...
  
• Law Practice News - articles and newsletters covering issues, products, and services in Legal Practice (JD Supra)...
• Legal Alerts - newsletters, articles, and alerts covering all subjects & published by lawyers, firms, & legal professionals on JD Supra.
  

I limited the list to Twitter accounts that mostly stay on topic: streaming legal news (broadly defined) and often linking to just one primary source.

The first is a terrific example of a trusted, mainstream source embracing new technology (ABA Journal); many others illustrate one type of valuable relationship to emerge between Twitter and blogging (LexMonitor, pointoflaw, overlawyered, technola, etc.).

Several of the feeds were recently created by us at JD Supra: we stream documents uploaded onto the site in a variety of channels, including Twitter.

My other list - Lawyers and Legal Professionals to Follow on Twitter - includes a healthy mix of legal bloggers who also happen to feature legal news and announce new posts on their wide-ranging Twitter streams. I think you should follow those people, too - but this, above, is a different list.

I enjoy the blend of personal and professional that plays itself out on Twitter; again, for this list I was interested in compiling something different. On-topic sources for legal news.

Have a feed to add? DM @jdtwitt on Twitter; or leave a comment on this blog.

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- Lawyers and Legal Professional to Follow on Twitter 

 

[Are you a lawyer looking for ways to showcase your expertise online? Join JD Supra: start publishing your legal documents to a wide audience, including via RSS, widgets, and Twitter feeds...]

A quick note to say that we now deliver via e-mail a monthly digest of the top legal articles, alerts, and newsletters published on JD Supra. Here's how it works:

• Lawyers, law firms, and other legal professionals publish their work on JD Supra. (We're building a rich collection of valuable legal docs freely available to everyone; it grows daily.)
• We put together an annotated reading list, distilling for our audience the top uploads of articles, alerts, newsletters for the month.
  
• The digest covers a wide range of legal subjects from a diverse group of authoritative sources. Once a month, it arrives in your in-box.
• Rinse, repeat.

For an idea of what kind of reading to expect arriving in your in-box, see Aviva Cuyler's Monthly Digest for July, posted recently on this blog. We've been publishing a version of the digest on JD Scoop for quite some time (see others here and here). Now you can stay informed by e-mail.

• And if you have something to offer the mix, be sure to join JD Supra and start publishing your work now. The audience, like the collection of documents, grows daily.

Our first digest is a general list of top work published during the month. Soon we will be introducing additional subect- and industry-specific email offerings. Stay tuned for those.


Sign up for the digest on the site right now. Look on most pages for the "Legal Digests" prompt - including on the JD Supra homepage and here: our JD Supra Profiles page. (Refresh the page if you don't see it, on the right.)