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October 06, 2007
GeekLawyer gets drunk, breaks bad; Charon has spot of lunch, takes in rugby. But both blog...
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 statesmen among lawyers. It's damn hard to have 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 then there's your wife and kids. Over the years Trixie's gotten pretty mean, and beefed up a bit--almost big enough to have her own zip code--and your eldest son has a resume that already reads like a police blotter.
Blawgs can help. They let us blow off steam. Blawgs prevent some of us from one morning at 8:15 suddenly running with a chain-saw from office to office on the 48th floor of the US Steel Building. Saturday in London: see what GeekLawyer and Charon QC do on weekends to unwind. On both sides of the Atlantic, we all react to the pressures of being a lawyer in different ways.
Posted by Holden Oliver at October 6, 2007 11:13 PM