Podcasts Culture Notebook on Cities and Culture On the badness of the legal profession with The Philadelphia Lawyer

On the badness of the legal profession with The Philadelphia Lawyer

Published: Oct. 22, 2009, 3:15 p.m.

b'Colin Marshall talks to The Philadelphia Lawyer, author of both the web site of the same name and the book The Happy Hour is For Amateurs: A Lost Decade in the World\\u2019s Worst Profession,\\nwhich is now out in paperback. Combining Kafka-like tales of the\\ngamesmanship and pedantry of the legal profession with vivid accounts\\nof the intense debauchery required to counterbalance all that wasted\\ntime in the office, The Philadelphia Lawyer\\u2019s web presence has\\nattracted a large, devoted audience of disaffected litigators,\\nsuspicious law students and dedicated bacchanalists alike. His book\\nbrings the distinctive sensibility of his much-e-mailed stories into\\nlong-form narrative.'