The (Temporary) Final Conclusion of 3L Epiphany

I had planned on blogging during the summer while I simultaneously studied for the Bar Exam. I have decided that this is no longer realistic, and that I would prefer to be completely undistracted. So this will probably be my final post for the next two months. I do plan to continue blogging once the Bar is over, and I will decide then how to resurrect 3L Epiphany (including whether it should receive a new name, now that I am no longer a 3L).

    

Probably because of the recent American Lawyer article, I have been receiving many visitors from Google searches for “3L Epiphany.” For those readers who are visiting for the first time, here is the Taxonomy of Legal Blogs which is referred to in the article. Here also is a Table of Contents which contains most of my work on 3L Epiphany. 

    

The Table of Contents was compiled in April, so it does not include the following major posts from the end of the semester (in chronological order):

• Cases Citing Legal Blogs

• A Collection of Law Review Articles Citing Legal Blogs

• Justice Judith Lanzinger (Ohio Sup. Ct.): "The Future Will Belong to the Flexible"
• Judge Richard Kopf (D. Nebraska): Legal Blogs Will Fill the Practicality Gap
• A Mention in the Beltway Blogroll, and a Third Judge Responds
• 3L Epiphany Gets Cited in Four Academic Papers 
• What About Political Blogs? Explaining an Inconsistency
• Q and A with a Skeptical Professor: "It's All Online!"
• Blogging the Harvard Bloggership Conference
• Advice for the Incoming Class of 2009
• American Lawyer: Blawgs on a Roll

   

I would like to thank all of my readers from the past several months for making 3L Epiphany a successful experiment. I am especially grateful to my fellow legal bloggers who encouraged me (and linked to me) throughout the semester. Most of all, I would like to thank Prof. Doug Berman, my advisor for this project, for his warm and enthusiastic support from the very beginning. It was Prof. Berman’s blog, Sentencing Law and Policy, that was the inspiration behind 3L Epiphany.

    

I will resume regular blogging in some form at the end of the summer. At that time I will clarify what the future of 3L Epiphany holds. Meanwhile, for the next two months I plan to avoid the online world altogether, and blog only if it is absolutely necessary. I expect that there is enough material here to keep interested readers occupied for a while. I hope to see everyone again when the Bar Exam is over.

   

Sincerely,

Ian Best (3L Epiphany)