I’m a writer who specializes in writing about the law — but I am not a lawyer. This can be both frustrating and a huge relief for someone who writes and reads regularly about the U.S. legal industry. I want this blog to be the home for all of the legal musings that bore my family and nonlawyer friends to death. Likely topics include personal-injury law, funny stuff I find in state criminal/penal codes online, things I find frustrating about not being a lawyer, absurd contract clauses, work/life balance issues at big firms and mockery of Loyola 2L. I’m planning on keeping the politics to a minimum, and if I can’t, I’ll turn off comments so the internet drones can’t mess it all up.
I’m also not the owner of ianal.wordpress.com, which appears to be about digital copyright issues, though I wish this person well. His/her choice to use the acronym probably saved me from having to resist the temptation to choose an embarrassing blog name.
More content and prettier layout TK when I’m not late for anything. In closing, I’d like to compliment the lawyers for Automattic for writing a reasonably user-friendly Terms of Service page. In addition to covering their behinds thoroughly, they provided a cheat sheet at the beginning, highlighted the stuff that was most likely to cause problems for users and threw the reader a bone in the Disclaimer of Warranties paragraph. If I could have struck out the mandatory arbitration clause, I’d have been even happier. Oh yeah, I might make mandatory arbitration posts too.
