Legal Commentary

By Evan Schaeffer

WHAT YOU'LL FIND IN THIS WEBLOG'S ARCHIVES . . . Here are just a few of the items that once appeared at the top of this weblog, but which now appear only in its archives:

A simple formula for escaping the law by writing a legal thriller

An annotated federal-court decision in which a law clerk hid names of Talking Heads songs

A bit about The Lawyer Who Brings Her Breast Pump to the Office

A prayer for trial lawyers

A letter from a lawyer on the run

Lots of podcasts

A set of instructions for finding a modest lawyer, if such a thing exists

A blow-by-blow account of my trip with another lawyer to Prague in the Czech Republic

A description of some of my favorite things: the Fender Jaguar guitar; Drinking, Smoking, and Screwing; and computers.

An explanation as to why everyone needs to develop their own "a circle of advisors"

A description of lawyers who advertise on TV

The Legal Underground Official Tort-Reform Glossary

The best way to learn the skill of issue-spotting on law-school exams

A short story about law-firm partnership

A little more advice about law and literature

An anecdote about the time I stayed out all night drinking with Christopher Hitchens

A post about the way that riverboat gambling shook up the monotony of my BigLaw lawyer's life in the early 1990s 

My advice to a senior law partner who was having trouble connecting with the younger generation

A short note about Richard Nixon and why I became a lawyer

That's just a few of the things you'll find among this weblogs 2,852 posts (which also feature 6,306 comments). If you don't want to stop there (though I won't blame you if you do), you can also find many of my posts arranged in a chapter-by-chapter form here: "The Sixteen Types of Lawyers, and Other Observations from a Lawyer with a Weblog."

Full post as published by Notes from the (Legal) Underground on June 11, 2010 (boomark / email).