Just last week, I wrote about a valuable resource for legal writers, available at no cost from the Social Science Research Network. While SSRN concentrates primarily on serious scholarly works, every once in a while it also publishes a humorous piece of legal writing. Rhapsody in Blue: An Ode to The Bluebook was first published [...]

As I recently mentioned, for me, the most important part of attending conferences is seeing old friends and having a chance to meet in person some of the great folks I’ve gotten to know online. This year’s ABA Techshow didn’t disappoint! It was like old home week from the moment I checked into the hotel. [...]

This cartoon is courtesy of Courtoons, a blog by Ohio appellate lawyer David Mills that features daily cartoons skewering all aspects of the law. (As a fellow appellate lawyer, I’m also partial to Honest Briefing and A Uniform Normal Person’s System of Citation.)

Yes, we flocked. That would be Lawyerbird Kimberly Alderman and me. Our own contract lawyer mini-convention. I was working late last night when Kimberly (a/k/a @nomadtoes) tweeted that she would be driving up to to New York in the morning. Since I’m an unabashed fangirl, I immediately sent off a DM (direct message, for the [...]

I first learned about Project Gutenberg a couple of years ago. According to Wikipedia (which contains a clearer description of Project Gutenberg than the organization’s own site), Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize, archive and distribute cultural works. Founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart, it is the oldest digital library. Most of [...]

In an article entitled Commas, Turning Up, Everywhere, The Onion reports: In the midst of a crisis that may have reached a breaking, point Tuesday afternoon, linguists, and grammarians, everywhere say they are baffled, by the sudden and seemingly random, appearance of commas, in our nation’s sentences. The epidemic of errant punctuation has spread, like [...]