Apart from trading ideas and news, blogging affords lawyers a forum to vent and be creative. Certainly, there are lots of frustrated novelists, poets, playwrights and would-be statesmen and pundits among us lawyers. Lots of American lawyers have unfinished drafts of novels and epic poems, or “action” memos outlining our pipe-dream 1998 congressional races, in our desk drawers.
So it’s damn hard to take a degree in English Literature, American Studies or Philosophy from, say, Brandeis, Haverford or Stanford–and then some 25 years later find yourself spending all day defending Mutual of Toledo’s insureds for $185/hour in a caseload that presents about 10 total (tops) different car accident or dog bite patterns. And