Was I the only one slightly taken aback by an email from West touting the legal publisher as a producer of "perfect holiday gifts"? Admittedly, they only imagine their books are well suited to "legal professionals". Still, I'm suprised they actually detailed a web designer to the task of producing a West Holiday Gift page. I don't want to be too harsh on the folks from Thomson. The ad features three reasonably giftable items: Black's Law Dictionary, Uncle Anthony's Unabridged Analogies: Quotes and Proverbs for Lawyers and Lecturers, and an appointment book. Still, at a hundred smackeroos, Uncle Tony is a little pricey for my holiday budget — even with West's generous free shipping offer. Here's a cheap alternative: send your best lawyer friends a link to Bartleby.com – home to Bartlett's quotations. And now that you've saved the $100, surf over to For Counsel. Find a pair of shark boxers, a prenuptial agreement tie, or even some well-aged lawyer themed first day covers. For a mere $75, you can purchase an original I Dreamed I Swayed The Jury…in my maidenform bra ad. Now that'll suprise even the most placid legal professional!
Christmas Gifts For Lawyers: From The Mundane To The Sublime
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Thanks for the great suggestions. May we humbly add one more — indie music label LawTunes' (http://www.LawTunes.com) unique CDs of humorous, lawyer-created, law-related rock-and-roll songs: "Merry Lexmas From The Lawtunes," "The Lawyer's Holiday Humor Album," "Legal Holidaze," and "The Lawtunes: Live At Blackacre." Composed and produced by a practicing litigation attorney, the original and upbeat songs incorporate a broad spectrum of rock-and-roll styles and are chock full of the finest legalese. Plus, after playing the CDs several thousand times, lucky recipients can then use them as convenient coasters for mugs of black coffee during all-nighters working in the office. Songs include "It's Gonna Be A Billable Christmas," "Rainmaker Reindeer," "Hey, Santa, I Appeal," "North Pole Bar Exam," "I Got A Footnote In My Stocking," "We're All Just Elves," "Ridin' On A Red-Eye With Santa On Christmas Eve," and many more. They take on the law, lawyers, and legal practice in a hilarious, but positive, way, "including but not limited to" bar exams, ridiculous hours and the other sacrifices lawyers (and their families) make, client relations, the adversarial system, the art of negotiating, time records and legal bills, impossible deadlines, legal reasoning and argument, cross-examination, business travel, lawyer marketing, headhunters and lateral movement, continuing legal education, mountainous document review and production, legal citation style, and expert witnesses. LawTunes' albums are dedicated to the proposition that lawyers' zealous representation of clients and furtherance of the public good can be only enhanced by a healthy willingness of lawyers to poke fun at themselves appropriately on occasion. They contribute to the effort to make people think a little differently about lawyers, and show that attorneys are not necessarily humorless, boring, or incapable of self-deprecation. Further information and sample clips are available at http://www.LawTunes.com. Thanks again.
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