I'm here, totally engrossed in the Northeast Bankruptcy Conference. I love this stuff -- smart lawyers thinking and talking in a friendly, non-adversarial way about the law, how it works, what the grey areas are, and what creative things people might be able to try with those grey areas. Not much time to write, at least not right now.
One interesting observation is that I'm here as a volunteer for the ABI. So I'm wearing a red polo shirt with the ABI logo and a badge that says staff. There's an elaborate means of identifying people with badges and various colored ribbons -- you can get one for being a speaker, or a sponsor, or a committee chair, or a past president of the ABI, etc. etc. And people are very tuned in to who has what ribbon -- they'll come up to the desk to request a ribbon if it was inadvertently left out of the packet. Anyway, I'm going to the sessions and acting like a lawyer, and talking to lawyers about the substance of the presentations. But I'm dressed like staff, and I'm stuffing bags and telling people where the restrooms are and signing them up for the golf tournament. There is a breed of lawyer that treats staff differently than they treat other lawyers. Some members of that breed are here. There have been moments where I can see the gears jamming up when they sit beside me and I'm acting like a lawyer, but dressed like a staff member.
S. Think about what you're feeling right now, and, while you're doing that, explain to me again why you don't want to be a law professor?
Posted by: moresilent | July 16, 2004 at 12:23 PM