Valentine's Day Advice for Lawyers (and Law Professors) From Paul Caron's TaxProf Blog
Interesting Valentine's Day article in Legal Times, Love Advice for Lawyers, by Edward Honnold. The article offers "help for the legally sophisticated but romantically challenged":
Today is Valentine's Day -- a day on which some couples express their love and gratitude for each other, a day that others choose to ignore on the grounds of cheap commercialism, and a day on which all too many unhappy souls get reminded that the romance is gone. Too many lawyers fall into that last group, but it doesn't have to be that way....
The solution is obvious in theory, but never simple in practice: Lawyers in love need to build on their strengths, acknowledge their vulnerabilities and always sustain hope. Specifically, they should focus on these seven areas....
(I'm making sure my wife takes note of #4.)
Jackson Browne explored similar terrain in Lawyers in Love (1983):
I can't keep up with what's been going on
I think my heart must just be slowing down
Among the human beings in their designer jeans
Am I the only one who hears the screams
And the strangled cries of lawyers in love
Update: For more, see Peter Lattman's WSJ Law Blog.
Cross posted from http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2006/02/valentines_day_.html
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