Love or Money? A Question for English Majors and/or Future Lawyers

[WordPress has reminded me that it’s my blog’s anniversary! I set it up on June 9, 2012, and my first true post was on June

Do You Write Under A Pen Name? (& Other Fun Facts)

As law students filled the room, the moderator of the event whispered to me, “Are there any fun facts I can include about you in

Typos: Condemnation for Common Mistakes

Once, after filing a 49-page appellate brief in a case, I received the following email from a well-established attorney in my practice area: I did

Happy Birthday: Another Year of “Toil and Labour of the Mind”

Without giving Mrs. Clay of Jane Austen’s Persuasion any undue credit, I think she may have been onto something when she said: [E]ven in the

We Were All Children Once (Even Lawyers)

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, we view a Depression Era criminal trial of an African American man in Alabama through the innocent eyes

Why Do Lawyers Write Fiction?

Many of the books sitting on my shelf or stored in my Kindle are authored by lawyers, such as Francisco X. Stork and Kerry Reichs, whose