Hey folks. I’m Caleb Brown. I work in radio and I do occasional freelance writing. If my blog were a child, social services would have taken her away a long time ago for neglect. I have a dog and I play the banjo. And to answer your questions: Yes, I live in Kentucky and yes, I do drink bourbon. Guestbloggin’ commences later today. My thanks to Walter Olson for the opportunity.
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Guest blogger tomorrow
An all-new guestblogger will be joining us tomorrow. For full details, check back then.
Thank you and goodnight
Overlawyered.com readers, thanks for reading my posts and allowing me to invade your cyberspace. Thank you Mr. Olson for letting me sap your bandwidth on this site. Two things to leave you with, as The Monk’s one-week term as guest blogger ends:
1) This amusing entry from James Lileks regarding the social aspects of the various lawsuits urging that church-state separation means no “Christ” in Christmas.
2) Merry Christmas, Joy of the Season, All the Best and Happy New Year.
Thanks to KeyMonk
…for a highly productive week as guestblogger (five posts yesterday alone). His regular blog (“Politics, Sports, Law, and occasionally Religion — whatever you want to argue about”) can be found here.
Self-Introduction
Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a man of . . . pseudonyms and a small blog.
Greetings. I am The Monk, founder and primary author of The Key Monk a small politics-and-sports blog I started in April and which my old high school buddy and I now work on in our spare time.
I am a lawyer in Texas who has run the law firm private practice gamut: large general practice firm to medium-size insurance defense firm (where I was on the frontlines in the asbestos wars) to a small commercial litigation boutique. No, I haven’t seen it all, but I’ve seen a lot. I now practice primarily appellate litigation, which I prefer because it is analytical and there’s no discovery in appellate litigation. I have also worked as a prosecutor in North Carolina, a pro bono lawyer in Boston and was a journalist of sorts as the sports editor and advertising manager of my college newspaper.
The best work I’ve done as a lawyer is easy to select: my pro bono work for the Shelter Legal Services Foundation (formerly the Veterans Legal Services Project) — a foundation dedicated to providing legal help to homeless and indigent veterans, battered women and other people in the Boston area who cannot afford most legal services.
Hopefully I can bring some perspective as a practicing attorney who has worked in a variety of legal settings. I look forward to contributing to Overlawyered.com — long one of my bookmarks (sycophancy alert!) — for the next week.
Guestblogger tomorrow
Quite a few promising candidates responded to our call for guestblogger volunteers and we expect to be hearing from several of them in coming months. The first will be debuting tomorrow.
Guestblogging opportunities
We’ve had numerous guestbloggers on the site during the past year and a half — and we’re expecting some of them back for return engagements — but it’s also time to renew the call for volunteers. The likeliest candidates are those who have a track record of at least somewhat relevant writing, either at another blog or in scholarly, professional or journalistic outlets. To nominate yourself, just drop me a line at editor – at- thisdomainname – dot – com.
And before we forget…
Thanks to MedPundit for her prolific and excellent posts over the past week. Her regular blogging, which includes a steady supply of items about malpractice and other medico-legal topics, can be found here, and should be on your regular round of blog stops if you are even slightly interested in matters medical.
Happy Trails
Well folks, thanks for letting me part of the Overlawyered community for a week. Though come to think of it, I have been part of the Overlawyered community on the reading side for the entire year or so since I discovered blogs, and hope to continue in that role for a long time. If you have suffered through my guest posts, things are looking up for you as the guest guard changes. (Incidentally, a guest blogger at Crescat Sententia has some musings on guest blogging generally; he also has been thinking about blog crushes.) If you ever find yourself nostalgic for vice talk, please visit us at Vice Squad.
I’ll depart with one further observation, one that shouldn’t be surprising given my week o’ posts, or to anyone who follows Vice Squad. Here are some of the happenings during the past week — happenings so common, so mundane, that they almost manage to fly under the radar: 38 arrested in Chicago; 42 arrested in Chatham County, Georgia; 4 arrested in Reno; 10 arrested in Decatur, Alabama; 9 arrested in Willimantic, CT; 16 arrested in Elmore County, Alabama?
And what is the noble purpose served by this frenzied feeding into the maw of the insatiable criminal justice system? To make it a little bit harder for some of our friends and neighbors to consume a substance that they choose to consume.
Thanks again to Walter Olson and Ted Frank, and be sure to check in tomorrow for a new, improved guest blogger.
Guestbloggers going and coming
Today will mark the end of Jim Leitzel’s (Vice Squad) week as guestblogger at Overlawyered. Check back tomorrow, when a new guestblogger — a well known figure in the blog world — joins us for a weeklong stint.