Outside Counsel


"Occasional notes on a glamor profession."

Author: Editor Bill Altreuter keeps a low profile.

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Recent Posts from Outside Counsel


  • To the Lou Donaldson Quartet at the Albright-Knox last night, the second concert in the Hunt Real Estate Art of Jazz series. Bruce Eaton has been producing these shows for eleven years, and we haven't…

  • New York's Court of Appeals got it right, I think, by holding that the State must recognize marriages that are legal where performed, including same-sex unions, and I am pleased that Western New York's own…

  • Every week the Village Voice posts a list of the top selling records at a Village music shop. Greenwich Village is one of the few places left that even has record stores, and the feature…

  • When I compiled my list for Lawyers in Movies I left "Philadelphia" (1993) off. Now it turns out to be the movie that a surprising number of the students in the class want to write…

  • I felt pretty good about the decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in federal district court. My feeling has always been that the United States justice system has a long history of being up to…

  • For some reason I'd missed this: a Bob Dylan interview by Jonathan Lethem. (Actually, I know why I missed it: it was in Rolling Stone.)"Let me take a moment and reintroduce myself, your interviewer and…

  • I took a deposition yesterday in a case where we represent the plaintiff, and it reminded me of my early days in this glamor profession. One of the things that is tough when you are…

  • "My Cousin Vinny" is number 3 on the ABA list of Top 25 Legal Movies, behind "Mockingbird" and "12 Angry Men". On its face this seems like a peculiar choice for the ABA, which isn't…