The Lexorcist: The Beginning
Welcome to a brand new blog. This will be the easiest way to host content for what will one day become a web and print magazine sensation. Well... maybe not - but at least I think that the title is witty.As a law student and future legal professional, the free magazine racks that dot my daily path are full of publications that could only find a place in a lawyer's black heart. I have clicked and paged my way through some of the most uninspiring publications since Sports Illustrated's "Women of Pro-Golf: Swimsuit Edition."
The content of certain prominent legal industry rags who shall remain nameless (except through this publication's merciless spoofing of their titles) breaks down something like this:
10% - Gossip about which industry professionals have switched firms, started their own practices or beat their sexual harrasment raps (ie "Who's Hot"), and who's been disbarred, disciplined and divorced (Who's Not").
10% - Discussion of the big deals being brokered by Canadian lawyers. Conspicuously absent are articles about many of the smaller but more interesting transactions with titles like "Competition Lawyers Unite to Combat Rising Cocaine Prices" and "Bay Street's New Hobby: Wifeswapping!"
15% - Page after page of arbitrary and heavily politicized industry rankings such as "Best Intellectual Property Firm", "Most Articling Students Worked to Death," and of course the "Top 40 (Heart Attacks) under 40".
65 % - Advertisements by major law firms declaring themselves to be different than every other law firm that offers exactly the same services.
Of course the legal profession can occasionally be stressful, tedious and soul-crushing. At least that's the legal profession that the current publications put before our eyes as they slowly crust shut in boredom. But there is another side of law that has personality, and a sense of humour which deserves a far stronger voice. That voice is now growing in the independent web-rants of some of my talented colleagues. The Lexorcist hopes to join their ranks, to inform and most of all to entertain. Enjoy the blog and most of all enjoy you careers.
posted by DFlatt @ 3:15 PM
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