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Anonymous Lawyer is a fake.
It’s likely that I narrowly escaped the same fate as Ms. Haobsh. This past December, I was publicly outed as the author of a Weblog called Anonymous Lawyer, where I post about life inside a corporate law firm. It’s fiction, but many of the stories are inspired by events from the summer I spent at a law firm between my second and third years of law school. Had the firm discovered the blog while I was there, I’m guessing they would have fired me. And under current law, they would have had every right to, no matter that I wasn’t writing about real people, real cases or anything that would expose the firm to liability.
Given my own blogging experience, I feel that the natural argument for me to make would be that employers shouldn’t be able to fire bloggers simply for having a blog, and that the law should protect us.
September 27th, 2005 at 4:33 am
I don’t know how i found that blog, but i had it bookmarked for quite a while. Hmmm.
September 27th, 2005 at 5:58 am
meee tooo…i feel so cheap.
September 27th, 2005 at 5:24 pm
Well, of course it was a fake. It was (and is) brilliant, but obviously fiction.
September 28th, 2005 at 12:50 am
I knew it was a fake when I started reading it. I think there were articles about how it’s fake.
Besides, you could tell it was someone who had some knowledge of how a firm works, but not a lot. They had a transactional partner writing a summary judgment motion. For the non-lawyers, this is obviously wrong because: (a) litigators write summary judgment motions; and (b) partners don’t write anything — they sign things.