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NYC/New Friends/The Law

The Wife and I visited NYC on Sunday afternoon. We had lunch with a very nice blogger friends of Steph. We went to McHale’s, which was a semi regular place to visit while at the Times. The building was sold, and is going to be redeveloped, so the bar is closing. This is a shame for a variety of reasons, not the least of which: its one of the oldest bars left in that area. It harkens back to a seedier time in Times Square’s past while maintaining the modicum of dignity that an establishment can have when it caters to the theater crowd. And the exterior and interior have been in at least 1000 episodes of TV shows and movies.

Anyway, in addition to being very nice people, they do the lawyering. The funny thing is that maybe 40-50% off my closer friends are all lawyers. and I have a few friends in law school. So there was plenty to talk about like: anonymous lawyer.

Anonymous Lawyer is a blog that a close friend from high school, currently living in DC sent me one day. He said ‘go read this. tell me what you think’.

Reading it, it got me a little incensed. I mean, the character that writes this blog is a bit of a sadist. and more then little bit arrogant.

I immediately IM’d back to this friend of mine: “We should totally out this guy. It shouldn’t take that long to figure out who he is…”

The author had not yet added his “Stories from the trenches, by a fictional hiring partner at a large law firm in a major city.” tagline, so I completely bought that this was a real blog.

Although according to some attorneys it may be truthful, it is definitely a fictional blog.

Here is a piece from the Harvard Gazette on the blog. There was an nytimes piece, but it looks like a pay article now.