THINGS YOU CAN FIND IN THIS WEBLOG'S ARCHIVES . . . Despite what you might have heard, weblogs aren't really a good tool for organizing diverse bits of information. You write something, it shows up on the top, but then it starts scrolling each day towards the bottom. After that, it's gone!

Or is it? Here are some things that once appeared at the top of this weblog, but which now appear only in its archives:

A blow-by-blow account of a typical day for How Appealing's Howard Bashman;

A short story about law-firm partnership;

A shocking account of the way legal recruiters responded to the law firms that removed associate contact information from the firms' web pages;

My take on (female) lawyers who use breast pumps at the office;

A shocking account of the way greedy plaintiffs' lawyer forced the Girl Scouts to change their cookie recipes;

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

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

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

A shocking account of the day fifty of the world's best legal blawgers perished at the LexThink blawger conference in Chicago;

A little essay about Richard Nixon and why I became a lawyer; and,

Another little essay about the importance to every lawyer of "a circle of advisors."

That's just a few of the things you'll find among this weblogs 1,689 posts (which also feature 4,957 comments). If you don't want to stop there (though no one will blame you if you do), you can also troll the archives by looking at the categories and greatest hits pages. The archives are also listed by date in the lower right-hand corner of every page.

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Until tomorrow, then . . . happy reading!