Here is a snippet of the author's bio from Amazon.com.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A1FSDE4B8VA4K9/ref=cm_blog_dp_pdp/103-1814155-9271031
"Biography
The author bio tells you I'm not a hiring partner at a law firm, but I
am the author of the Anonymous Lawyer blog (http://anonymouslawyer.b
logspot.com), a recent (2005) graduate of Harvard Law School, and I
live in Brooklyn.
How I ended up writing this book: I graduated from Princeton in 2000,
after writing sketches and songs for the Princeton Triangle Club but
not really sure how to translate that into a job. I went to work in
marketing at a software company, which was the best job I could have
had at a software company, but not really what I wanted to be doing.
Went to law school, thinking I'd buy myself three years to figure out
how to be a writer. Started the Anonymous Lawyer blog during my second
year of law school, the New York Times wrote a piece about it in
December of 2004, and I ended up with a book deal. So here's the book.
I think it's funny. I hope you do too."
It is a funny blog, I'm sure the book is good as well.
Nicole Bachmann
Law Library Intern
MLS student-Indiana University Bloomington
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Quoting "McKeown, Frances" <fmckeown@orrick.com>:
> He must have compiled his blog into a book.
> http://anonymouslawyer.blogspot.com/
>
> <http://www.orrick.com/>
>
> Frances McKeown
> Research Specialist
> tel 415.773.5982
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On
> Behalf Of Greene, Penny
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 9:26 AM
> To: Graesser, Christine L.; law-lib@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: RE: Lawyer's viewpoint on Wexis spam
>
>
> This is from the a new fiction title--"Anonymous Lawyer" by Jeremy
> Blachman.
> Penny Greene
> Research Librarian
> Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
> 601 California Ave
> Palo Alto, CA 94304
> 650-461-7309
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On
> Behalf Of Graesser, Christine L.
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 7:18 AM
> To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: Lawyer's viewpoint on Wexis spam
>
>
> Can't verify the source of this, but it's interesting, no?
>
> Chris Graesser
>
>
> Anonymous Lawyer
>
>
> Stories from the trenches, by a fictional hiring partner at a large law
> firm in a major city.
>
>
> Monday, July 31, 2006
>
>
> Every month I get a piece of garbage sent to me via e-mail from the
> people who charge us more than they're worth over at Lexis. I've argued
> for a long time that there's no need for us to subscribe to both Lexis
> and Westlaw, and the only reason it makes any sense is that we charge
> our clients more than we pay for it and end up turning a profit. If we
> couldn't charge it back to our clients, I'd say we should send our
> associates back into the library and have them do it all by hand just
> like I had an associate pick the raisins out of my raisin bran muffin
> this morning because I wasn't in the mood for them. Normally I like
> raisins but today I didn't want any.
>
> Lexis sends me and every other attorney an e-mail spam newsletter every
> month that I usually delete immediately, but this time I needed
> something to read in the bathroom (I had my laptop with me to catch up
> on some work) and scrolled through it. Sure enough, now I know. Lexis is
> at least partially to blame for the incompetence all around me. In the
> "associate life" section (as if associates have any reason to read
> anything about them having a life!), there's a ridiculous feature on
> wine appreciation. "Confused by the difference between a cabernet and a
> chardonnay? Sooner or later you'll entertain a client at a nice
> restaurant, or you'll be talking to a partner who knows a lot about wine
> and you don't want to appear totally ignorant."
>
> Nonsense. Associates appear totally ignorant not because they don't know
> anything about wine but because they don't know anything about
> practicing law. I don't care if my associates can tell the difference
> between a cabernet and a chardonnay. I need them to be able to tell the
> difference between a judicial holding and the dicta. Between a set of
> facts we can distinguish and a set of facts we can't. Not about soave
> versus pinot grigio. Give me a break.
>
> There's even a set of 15 vocabulary words for associates to learn, so
> they can talk more intelligently about wine. Like "oaky." How about
> learning Latin? Or at least reading the bankruptcy code a few more
> times?
>
> At least it beats Westlaw's feature on the best places to buy sleeping
> pills on the Internet without a prescription. That stuff is really
> slowing down associate productivity. Can't sleep? Big deal. So don't.
>
> #
> <http://anonymouslawyer.blogspot.com/2006/07/every-month-i-get-piece-of-
> garbage.html> posted by Anonymous @ 2:02 PM
> <http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6664091&postID=11543808370185
> 8130&quickEdit=true>
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