Yes, I know — the law firm system is tanking. If you’re still entrenched in it, you don’t need me to tell you this — unless you’re busy clutching to those last non-billable threads of denial.
The fall of Legal Babylon is neither surprising nor unexpected, really — for years law firms have been the […]

It’s hard not to pick up on all the little mantras as you go through life–those pedagogic sayings and catchy idioms meant to jog us out of our daily bitchings. They spring forth from Hallmark cards, insurance ads and suburban church message boards, until they’re lodged in the “wish I could unlearn this” portion of […]

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 […]