legal sanity

Here’s a quick note from the road (or the train, as it were) as I make my way to a give a program on advanced mediation skills at the Association for Conflict Resolution’s Sixth Annual Conference.

I just finished Jones Day partner Mark Herrmann’s very funny and quite practical guidebook for budding and seasoned lawyers alike: The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law. I really enjoyed it and suggest that you grab a copy for yourself and the other lawyers in your life.

Monica Bay (who goes from e-mail to post at a rate of speed that would make any New York Yankees pitcher reel with jealousy) nicely captures my thoughts on Herrmann’s book in a mailbag roundup at her terrific blog, The Common Scold.

Check it out.