What exactly is the Law Dawg Blawg?
In the 1980s, WG founder Jim Walsh had the idea that a legal column with a touch of humor might go over well. His working title for the project was “The Legal Beagle.” A friend of his wife’s suggested that he call it “The Law Dawg.”
The first Law Dawg column appeared in the Texas School Administrators’ Legal Digest in January 1986. The Law Dawg remained a monthly column in print until the turn of the century, when everything went digital. From 2011-2026, The Law Dawg took the form of a subscription-based newsletter with daily legal updates known as The Law Dawg’s Ed Daily.
Following Walsh’s retirement in the summer of 2026, we are thrilled to introduce the latest iteration of our canine-themed legal newsletter: The Law Dawg Blawg, a weekly blog curated and written by attorney and writer Sarah Orman.
An annual digital subscription gets you access to:
- case summaries
- timely legal developments
- Q&As
- legislative updates
- quirky hypotheticals featuring thinly veiled characters modeled after Sarah’s friends and relatives, in the family tradition
- a weekly “Dawg Bone” takeaway
The Law Dawg Blawg highlights and explains legal developments for the busy school administrator. Concise. Relevant. Timely. Sometimes humorous.
New content posted weekly on Fridays, excepting school holidays, breaks, and a short summer hiatus.
Sarah is an Austin, Texas native who started her legal career in 2005 as a law clerk with a Bay Area education law firm. She represented California school districts until 2009, when she returned to her hometown to raise a family. After two years with Walsh Gallegos and ten years as a senior attorney at TASB, she assumed editorial responsibility for TASB’s school law newsletter and extensive online database of school law resources. Sarah has edited the Daily Dawg since 2024 and co-authored The Texas Educator’s Guide to School Law with Jim Walsh, whom she is proud to call her father.
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