"Blogs are liberating the profession from dull writing"

The September 11, 2006 issue of the National Law Journal reports that "Blogs are liberating the profession from dull writing":

The growing respect for blogging among legal professionals stems in part from the medium's tendency to resist the worst excesses of the traditional forms of legal writing and publication. Many legal documents and most traditional law review articles can be ponderous, with assertions over-wrought, arguments over-made, principles over-cited and everything over-written. The blog medium fosters and rewards succinct expression. For legal writers and legal readers, it is liberating and refreshing to have thought-provoking ideas about the law expressed in only a few paragraphs or even a few sentences.

The article is by Professor Douglas A. Berman, author of the blog Sentencing Law and Policy.