China Law Blog

One of the things I cannot stand about public television and public radio here in the U.S. is how they constantly beg for money. Well I am proud to announce we are not doing that.

The ABA (American Bar Association) Journal editors chose us as one of the top 100 law blogs and then threw the final decisions on best blog out to the public. We are (for some unknown reason) in the Black Letter Law category and there is some other blog out there (that shall remain nameless because there is no need for anyone even to know about it) that is slowly encroaching upon our first place position. So we desperately need you to CLICK HERE and vote China Law Blog!

Oh, and while you are at it, please also vote for the Transnational Law Blog in the law student blog category. This blog is co-written by my firm's summer associate last summer, Travis Hodgkins. Travis is a good guy and it is a very good blog. Click here for that one. I am also pushing for the What About Clients? Blog in the "All Business" Category, both because it is a truly excellent blog and because its driving force, Dan Hull, is a good friend of mine.

The following blogs (all great blogs, of course) have put up posts in an effort to bring out the China Law Blog vote.

ImageThief (who uses the same post to riff on PR nudity)
Cal Poly MBA Trip
The Humanaught
Beijing Boyce
Eyes East
Briefing Sheet
China Hearsay
Peking Duck (who in addition to calling for readers to vote for us, makes clear that we are not a "neocon, fascist, CCP-boot-licking stooge."
Experience Not Logic
Practice Sources
China Business Law Blog
DalianDalian
The Horse's Mouth, which alleges that a failure to vote for us "will cause your underwear to turn carnivorous and consume your genitals in your sleep."
Zhongnanhai
Sinocidal (the forum, actually) But spreading the pernicious lie that I like cats.
Cup of Cha, which couples it with its own poll as to why people are voting for us. Cup of Cha provides three interesting choices: 1) Fear of CLB's growing power, 2) To placate Cup of Cha's writer, Josh, and 3) Free will. In very early returns, fear of our power is way out front. For the record, we do not care one bit why you vote for us, but we do really, really want you to vote for us.
China Business Blog
Silicon Hutong
The Black China Hand ("with enthusiasm")

I also owe a massive debt of gratitude to Lonnie Hodge and David DeGeest of The China Dreamblogue/Culture Fish Media and Christine Lu of The Chinese Business Network, who have been using various high tech means to bring out the vote.

We thank these fine people and those who have already voted and we plead for more. Voting runs until January 2, but vote NOW. Please.