Don’t Be Bitter, Young Lawyer.

Posted By Cliff Tuttle | December 28, 2010

No. 548

Dear colleague:

Sometime when I wasn’t looking, a blog called Bitter Lawyer made it to the No. 2 spot on the AVVO Blogs — moving ahead of that blonde law professor from Wisconsin, Althouse.  It was inevitable. Althouse has been gravitating to shorter and shorter posts for years, until she will eventually have nothing but one word to say.  And Bitter Lawyer can be rather entertaining . . . for a while.  Consider the classic video, broadcast under the “Living the Dream” label, currently on display: “Typo.” [No you are not going to look at it until I am done here.]

“Typo” may strike a chord with you, like it did with me.  But it is a sad, yes bitter one.  It subjects the classic law firm culture that has grown increasingly ugly  during the last 20 years or so to devastating ridicule.

Okay, spend a few wasted hours with Bitter Lawyer.  Watch all of the episodes of “Living the Dream” if you can handle the pain.  But don’t go back there too often.  You won’t learn anything that you don’t already know. And, eventually, it will make you bitter too.

So, get out of here! Go watch “Typo.”

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