You have to laugh. When I started this whole blogging cavalcade back in 2005, if I told people I had a blog (which I didn’t, for fear of the exact reactions I’m about to describe), they responded by either tittering incredulously or changing the subject with breakneck speed. Even saying the word out loud was […]

In case any lawyers/law students/devotees of the law persuasion still read this, I figured this piece might peak your interest. Ahh the bar exam. There is no escape.

If you’re seeking a little inspiration on a chilly Monday morning, check out my piece today (second one down the page) in the New York Post. It’s about a woman who left her lucrative law career to pursue her true passion (pet topic of mine? How’d you guess). Now she runs her own thriving jewelry […]

This is truly, profoundly sad. It’s sad that this message board exists; sad that these “best and brightest” of America’s law schools (even writing this cracks me up) choose to spend their time harassing their peers instead of actually contributing something useful to humanity; sad that the site’s founders encourage racist and misogynistic posts to […]

The following was sent to me by a reader in Australia. It’s a set of exerpts from a “reflective journal” he and his fellow associates were required to keep during their first few months as newly-crowned lawyers (you have to love these perky HR schemes meant to “encourage reflection on the learning derived from your […]

I wrote this for Eat The Press a while ago, in the center of the gaping vortex that swallows all time and energy around Christmas and New Years, so I figured I’d resurrect it after the madness had passed. The contrast between the tone and angle of the two Times articles is pretty jarring. On […]

Thanks to several readers for sending me this article in today’s New York Post. Yup, more and more of us over-educated astronomically-paid chattel are fleeing midtown highrises en masse, in a desperate exodus to just about anywhere that isn’t a fluorescent-lit cubicle. The sad part of it all is that the hordes of slavering […]

It’s another week of Societal Armageddon in the media, with New York Magazine pontificating about the science of burnout and Time chiding us for obsessing over chemical weapons attacks and avian flu while chainsmoking unfiltered Camels and shoving triple bacon cheeseburgers down our gullets. These articles, intended to pull back another onion layer of our […]

It’s just too fantastic. Living manifestations of the absurdity that is the American (and British) legal systems. Here we have the sordid bastard child of technology and modern sociology, sacrificed to the gods of hand-held communications systems, wrapped in a lovely tort law ribbon. I’ve written about Blackberries before, that hot superiority injection they shoot […]

Ah second-year law students, how I envy you. Donning pressed wool suits in the still-hot weather, milling around bite-size interview rooms anxiously awaiting your turn on the slab, clutching leather folders in sweaty palms as the Skadden or Simpson parner laughs uproariously at something the interviewee directly before you said, shooting fleeting glances at her […]