Best of Bitter Lawyer

I will not give you free legal advice. I don’t care if you’re my mother, my girlfriend, or my doctor.

I need this job. My kid needs me to need this job. And I can take the insults.

If you’ve ever dated a civilian while a lawyer or in law school, you’ll recognize at least half of these.

From the Bitter Lawyer Archives, a post and webisode of Living the Dream.

We ask normals on the street what they know or even think about big law firms.

“I’d started writing during my third year of law school. By the time I stopped practicing, I’d written several scripts, honed my craft and gotten a manager. I’d also had several meetings with producers and studio executives, so I had a pretty good sense of whether people responded to my writing. I scheduled my move [...]