Yes, I am a Group 5 type too. What 48 and 76 said (kind of). I actually liked most of my work as a trusts and estates lawyer in a Very Big Firm. However, my conscience didn’t let me bill for other-than-arguably-matter-related work, and so it was often a struggle to enter 8+ honest-to-goodness billable hours a day even if I was in the office an average of 10-12 hours a day, particularly juggling (usually) more than half-a-dozen files each day with individual clients who, even when wealthy, tend to be a lot more fee-sensitive than corporate clients.

The breaking point for me was, along with the birth of our second child, sitting in a war room going through documents on yet another beautiful Saturday afternoon, trying to listen to what was to me an important college football game on a radio with staticky (sp?) AM reception, working on a huge T&E litigation case, while the people whose mess I was cleaning up almost assuredly were not sitting in a fluorescent-lighted, drab-walled room worrying about whether a particular memo is protected by the work product doctrine. More likely they were either at the game I wanted to watch or on a boat somewhere. That was 3-1/2 years ago.

Now I work in the nonprofit world and am much happier, if financially less well-off. When I work a 10-hour day here, it’s considered impressive as opposed to meeting minimum expectations. And now I have time to do things like go to college football games, spend more time with the family, volunteer with more organizations, and not worry too much about having to stay at work another [0.75, 1.0, 2.5, whatever] because of Internet pleasures like EDSBS.

Just wait ’til I start my blog.

I apologize, kt, for that didactic foray back into law school…after a couple glasses of a Lyeth Meritage (the evening’s libation from yesterday’s birthday) and the discussion of a nasty property matter with a new client my (thankfully) hidden talent as a law prof slides past my usually normal demeanor and raises its pedantic head.

I’ll be danged…:-)…..give me your mailing address. I’m gonna send you a retainer…..for something…..

Can I sue Bama? Do you handle divorces?

LOL!

Enjoy your evening, sir.

I apologize, kt, for that didactic foray back into law school…after a couple glasses of a Lyeth Meritage (the evening’s libation from yesterday’s birthday) and the discussion of a nasty property matter with a new client my (thankfully) hidden talent as a law prof slides past my usually normal demeanor and raises its pedantic head.

This is slander! I’ll see you in court counselor!

WDE!

This is a hot subject – some very well written blogs with some very reasonable responses.

Write On

“I’d give four million just to be able to take a piss without it hurting.”

That being said, Bryant was smart enough to know when he went to Texas A&M and then later to Alabama that you have to buy the media. If you get the media on your side then everything else is easy.

Bloggers can’t be bought. I personally tried to buy off Orson to stop writing anti-Auburn posts but it didn’t work.

BTW Orson, I thought that EDSBS Auburn Tag was supposed to be hanging in your office. You lying sonofa……