Another late night, followed by an early morning made getting right back in the tour vehicle a little rough.
Not every attorney keeps a tombstone in his office. But Chip Mellor is not your average attorney.
When we were reporting our profile of Legal Rebel David Lat, founder of the legal news site AboveTheLaw.com, we were struck by how much his envelope-pushing coverage of big law firms reminded us of the work of a much older journalist.
We couldn’t leave Manhattan without a hearing from two of the lawyers responsible for changing the face of legal journalism – both 30 years ago and right now.
“I confess to a fondness for gossip, which, indeed, is a conservative genre. Gossips do not want to change the world; they want to enjoy it.”
—Jeffrey Peter Hart
Essayist and professor emeritus at Dartmouth College
Here are two questions that have appeared on the supplemental law school entry exam designed by Marjorie Shultz and Sheldon Zedeck.
The year was the 1976. Rocky was in theaters, disco music ruled and a brilliant young law graduate named Marjorie M. Shultz believed systems could change and the cause of social justice moved forward.
We were early risers this morning to meet up with our Rebel of the Day: Sullivan & Cromwell’s Frank Aquila.
In what’s often seen as a secret society of high-powered wheelers and dealers, Wall Street lawyer Francis Aquila is pushing back the curtain, using mainstream and social media to invite everyone in.
A two-week road trip has a lot of moving parts, and more than a few surprises along the way. Here are some of the journalism lessons I’ll take away from the first half of our adventure:
Woo hoo! Week one is through.
Michael Will probably wasn’t the first finance attorney to look at a derivatives security and think, “There’s got to be an easier way of doing this.” But he certainly is one of the first attorneys to actually try to find that easier way.
Ken Adams cannot stand legal jargon. If a contract contains the word witnesseth, the transactional lawyer shudders. The old-fashioned phrase represents and warrants is another common culprit, a waste of time and energy, according to Adams.
We started Day 4 of our Rebels Tour with a surprise visit from Rebels profile writer Jenny B. Davis, who happened to be in town for Fashion Week.
By Day Three, we have one valuable lesson learned: The longer into the night one edits video and multimedia, the more punchy/silly one becomes.
Dan Schwartz is a rabid Yankees fan, a former contestant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, a father of three and a Connecticut Bar Association junkie—although, as his Twitter bio notes, not necessarily in that order.
Phew, we made it through Day Two.
The Rebels tour crew is about to hit the Big Apple (if the Big Apple doesn’t hit us first), and we want to get together with anybody who’s interested in Rebels, the ABA or the practice of law.
There’s a framed picture of a prowling snow leopard in Susan Cartier Liebel’s living room. It’s a stunning piece, a limited-edition print Liebel loves both for the way it looks and for what it represents.
The fine folks at the Legal Talk Network were kind enough to ask Rebels Tour crew members Ed and Rachel to appear yesterday on the latest installment of their Lawyer2Lawyer podcast.
