LAW SCHOOL IN A BOX . . . It's a simple pitch: "Everything you need to know about practicing law has been squeezed into this small tin box!" Cost of the box: $14.95.

Inside you'll find an assortment of items that are meant to substitute for the real-life experience of law school. There are a set of Heroes of the Courtroom Trading Cards, for example, a mini bar exam, and a diploma awarding owners a Juris Doctor degree "not only in English, but also in Latin, because it appears more impressive that way."

In addition to all this, you'll also find a book titled "Law School in 96 Pages," written by the husband-wife team of John Cascarano and Jacquelyn Oña Cascarano. I'm pretty sure it's this team that's responsible for the contents of the entire box.

As it turns out, John Cascarano is a real lawyer who works at a Philadelphia firm. In keeping with modern practice of editing all the fun out of lawyer webpages, Cascarano's most important work of creativity--I mean, of course, his Law School in a Box--can't be found on his firm's website. He is noted, however, to be the co-author of something far less creative: "€œSmart Growth Initiatives and Big Box Ordinances: An Update," International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) 2004 U.S. Shopping Center Law Conference, October 27-30. Future biographers will note, therefore, that Cascarano's interest in small law-related boxes had its roots in larger law-related boxes. Certainly an interesting detail . . .

To learn more about the smaller Cascarano box, look here.

Comments

[mythago]

Uh...isn't there supposed to be beer in that box?

[Any Given Tuesday]

Fortunately some of us aren't too stuffy to realize that one can be a lawyer and be a fun person. I keep my (non-law-related) blog detached from my "day job," for both personal and professional reasons, mainly liability, since I do discuss legal issues from time to time. However, this gentleman created a fun, law-related product. Why shouldn't his firm have a sense of humor and relish in his creativity?