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Bitter Lawyer Talks to WSJ Law Blog's Ashby Jones

By Bruce Carton

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I'm a regular reader of the works of Ashby Jones, the head writer at the The Wall Street Journal Law Blog, and was pleased to see a nice profile of him on Bitter Lawyer last week. It also struck me that I could achieve a historic level of "legal blog navel gazing" if I could have Legal Blog Watch write about Bitter Lawyer writing about the Law Blog's Jones, and that was an opportunity I could not pass up. In an interview published last Thursday, Bitter Lawyer provided some interesting details on Jones, who has been at the helm of the Law Blog for just over a year. Some of the highlights: Jones attended University of Michigan law school and, after clerking for a nonagenarian judge on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, went to work for BigLaw's Perkins Coie in Seattle. He practiced there for two years as a litigator, but after living through many awful document reviews he realized he wasn't enjoying himself and began looking for other alternatives. He decided to try journalism, and found a job at a small legal paper in Seattle. After a year at the paper, Jones was able to land a...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on March 30, 2010 (boomark / email).