A Slightly Twisted Legal Weblog

It hasn't been around very long, but Running With Lawyers might develop into something very entertaining. The anonymous author purports to be an in-house lawyer for "the Ginormous Corporate Entity," but he refuses to be typecast. Here's his view on tort reform, for example:

I suppose that as a former member of Evil Defense Firm and new in-house guy at Ginormous Corporate Entity, I should be all gung-ho for what is generally known as "tort reform." Sites like [overlawyered.com], however, though interesting, take a pretty one-sided view of a complicated issue. I'll have a good deal more to say about the subject in the future.

Will the author keep it up? Hard to say. It seems that anonymous law bloggers who write to entertain face a couple of obstacles. If the blog posts are based on real life, the author must be careful not to write anything that might give his or her identity away. This makes for too much self-editing that leads eventually to a lack of material. If the author is basing the blog posts on fantasy, he or she will suffer from a lack of material whenever the imagination begins to falter. A third problem, common to both types of anonymous bloggers, is that they can't experience the writer's thrill of being noticed. They write, but they don't get the credit. If this leaves the writer feeling bored, it's yet another reason to quit.

But now you're probably feeling bored. Be sure to check out Running With Lawyers. By the way, I see that Kevin Heller likes it too.

Comments

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Thanks for the encouragement. I especially apprecaited the e-mail the other night. Note that I have changed the e-mail address because I inadvertantly allowed my real name to be displayed. As I've said before and will say again, I am an Idiot (Dostoyevsky reference. I figured it was in keeping with the theme of your ... well, whatever. I'm overeducated and insecure, so I need to show it off. Sorry). I hope to be able to keep it going. We will see what happens. As for running out of material, I think not for quite some time. But I've always said that the smartest thing the Sex Pistols ever did was breaking up after one brilliant album. Overstaying your welcome -- yeah I'm looking at you Mick Jagger and Keith Richards -- is something that I want to avoid.

[Evan]

Rufus: If you're going to be anonymous, you better go all the way. Allowing your real name to be displayed on your e-mail will never do. As for the Sex Pistols, you're right about them too: the smartest thing they ever did was to break up. (Easy cheap shot.)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I meant on the original Yahoo account I set, not the new one. As for the Sex Pistols dig, watch it, or I'll be forced to advocate that the best "tort reform" idea is that a plaintiffs' attorney can earn no more in a year than an average insurance defense attorney in the same geographic area.

[Evan]

Rufus: God save the Queen!!