For the past few years I’ve made a habit of stopping in my tracks every few months, glancing around the general topography of my life and taking stock. This week is the 6-month mark for the blog, as well as an anniversary of my start date at this firm. Last night it hit me that, [...]

In a profession filled to overflowing with pretension, posturing, insincerity and slobberous ass-kissing, it’s always startling to hear raw honesty come from someone’s mouth, even the unlikeliest of sources. This afternoon, as I sat at my desk returning emails, entering billables and wading through the paper mounds canopying my desk, all while inhaling a chicken [...]

It’s incredibly easy for just about any associate to subsist on a diet of pure unadulterated crap. Aside from the copious free food opportunities – cheese and sandwich plates left over from catered meetings, pastries and ice cream cakes from engagement or baby showers, the extreme king-size food orgy that is summer at a law [...]

I’m hardly above a little female jealousy. I’ll admit, I enjoy the quick thrill surge when Boyfriend attracts come-hither glances and flirtatious hair tosses from some aspiring coquette – under the absolute predictability of human nature, nothing increases our appreciation of a possession more than seeing it coveted by others. But when any would-be temptress [...]

My senior year in college, I convinced my professors to excuse me from classes for a full week so I could “conduct a tour of law schools to determine the school that would best fit my academic interests” (bullshitting skills that would stand me in good stead in my chosen profession). Of course, I neglected [...]