2007 "Lawyers Appreciate . . ." posts

As I did for last year's "Lawyers Appreciate . . ." countdown, I am creating a post where I will link to this year's contributions. (Click for more information about Julie Fleming-Brown's and my 2nd annual "Lawyers Appreciate . . ." countdown.)

December 22 (first day of the countdown)

1) Gini Nelson of Engaging Conflicts
(Lawyers appreciate justice.)

December 23

2) Sheryl Sisk Schelin at The Inspired Solo
(Lawyers appreciate their friends.)

3) Victoria Pynchon at Settle It Now Negotiation Blog
(Lawyers appreciate year-end apprciation memes.)

4) PT-Law Mom
(Lawyers appreciate their staff, clients, deadlines, co-counsel, legal bloggers, and families.)

5) Chuck Newton at Spare Room Tycoon
(Lawyers appreciate cases, clients, judges, opposing counsel, verdicts—all of a certain kind—plus purpose and a healthy son.)

6) Susan Cartier Liebel at Build a Solo Practice, LLC
(Lawyers appreciate the beauty of sunrises, personalities and natures of colleagues, and creative blogging lawyers.)

December 24

7) Carolyn Elefant at My Shingle (also posted by Nancy at Stark County Law Library Blog)
(Lawyers appreciate passion.)

8) Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice
(Lawyers appreciate integrity.)

9) Shelley Mactyre at The Menagerie
(Lawyers appreciate honesty, articulate and civil opposing counsel, non-attorney friends, and doctor jokes.)

10) Gideon at A Public Defender
(Lawyers appreciate a good fight.)

11) Karl at Capital Defense Weekly
(Lawyers appreciate blog visitors and gutsy, spirited lawyers.)

December 26

12) Malum in se
(Lawyers appreciate timely returned calls.)

13) Bryan Ritchey at More Partner Income (also posted by Nancy at Stark County Law Library Blog)
(Lawyers appreciate the enablers—"the people who enable you to focus on the practice of law"—and the respect of their peers.)

14) Antoinette Sedillo Lopez at Best Practices for Legal Education Blog
(Lawyers appreciate the rule of law "to resolve conflict and order society peacefully and non-violently.")

15) Nathan Dosch at The Dreams of a Solo
(Lawyers appreciate family.)

December 27

16) Shawn Matlock at The Matlock Blog
(Lawyers appreciate a good bottle of scotch.)

17) Mark Bennett at Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer
(Lawyers appreciate the U.S. Constitution.)

Robert Ambrogi at Legal blog Watch
(Lawyers appreciate . . . Ambrogi posted links to many posts from this year's and last's countdown contributors.)

December 29

18) Diane Levin at Online Guide to Mediation
(Lawyers appreciate democracy.)

December 31

19) Skelly at Arbitrary and Capricious
{Lawyers appreciate procrastination, and lawyers appreciate words—"there's nothing like the feeling when the right one leaps to mind and off the tongue.")