(Don’t) Wait a Minute, Mr. Postman
The practice of law has always been time sensitive. Lots of lawyers go to the office on Saturdays, ostensibly to open the mail. Fear of missing a deadline made opening [...]
Maybe I Just Need a New Tunic
It was a dark and stormy night. Actually it was midday at the latest, but clocks are about as useless as calendars these days. I was in my office on [...]
Zooming Around on a Magical Mystery Tour
Legal conventions in my part of the world happen during June. Conventions are a great opportunity to fellowship with colleagues without business pressures and deadlines. Some might say that we [...]
Rockin Robin, you Really did it This Time.
I thought it would be nice if this space didn’t mention the pandemic for the first time in several months, but I wondered how that would be possible. “How about [...]
War is Over, If You Want It.
Like many of you, I am sad and tired of this pandemic with no end in sight. By now, we all have lost friends or favorite businesses to the scourge. [...]
Down with the Sickness
I have often complained that law school prepared me to be a lawyer, not to practice law. As a lawyer who is unemployed with overhead, that has never been more [...]
They Tried to Make me Go to Rehab. (And They Did.)
Don’t be alarmed, Gentle Reader. The only substance addiction I have is for sugar, and except for certain cream filled chocolate eggs, I do okay. Mostly. I did an hour [...]
The Ones the Wolves Pulled Down
The law is a tough business and it gets tougher year over year. Old and even middle-aged lawyers will tell you so ad nauseum, even though the nausea comes rather [...]
You Say You Want a Resolution, Well, You Know…
Along with arguments of whether this is the beginning or the end of the decade (it’s the end by the way, we count 1 to 10, not 0 to 9) [...]
He was a Big Man but Maybe Smaller Than I Thought
I got out of the office and into the woods often enough to have a successful deer season this year. It was not as successful of a year for one [...]