Associate's Mind

I’ve always liked old things, so when I embarked on my Curriculum during my fourth year of medical school (screw studying Medicine), I was right at home.  I had always felt that I couldn’t fully appreciate anything without first understanding its origins. So I figured I might as well start at the beginning.  Since the [...]

  I’m pleased to announce a new semi-regular column is going to be appearing on Associate’s Mind. I have, since nearly the site’s founding, provided occasional commentary on the Great Conversation. I love the Classics and the insights they provide. The Classics are not a snapshot but rather stones thrown into the great lake of [...]

  This past week I drafted my first power of attorney. For those unaware, a “power of attorney” is a written authorization to represent or act on another’s behalf in private affairs, business, or some other legal matter. The person authorizing the other to act is the grantor, (of the power). The one authorized to act [...]

I had almost forgotten that it’s been two years since I started Associate’s Mind. What was originally intended to be a platform to discuss my personal development as a new lawyer has slowly morphed into…well, whatever this is now. Like most things in life the desire and drive to continually peruse a singular activity waxes [...]

  Sometimes you just need to take a break. Unplug, desync, disconnect as I’ve said in the past. Blogging well takes effort. Sure you can crank out insipid, trite observations about marketing, technology, and other vaguely related legal topics like clockwork. But producing something that is self-satisfying and genuine takes time. Sometimes you have the [...]

Associate’s Mind was included in the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100 today, a listing of the top 100 legal blogs of the year. Thanks to everyone who nominated the blog for inclusion.  It’s good company to be keep, with many great legal bloggers in there. Thanks to everyone else who continues to come back everyday and [...]

Despite having just made the point that links and numbers don’t matter in the last post, I thought I would offer this information for legal bloggers curious about how to drive traffic. Here are the top ten referring domains (people clicked a link there to get here) for the month of April: Reddit 5,743 Abovethelaw.com 3,004 Twitter [...]

FYI – In case you were unaware, large swaths of Alabama were just decimated by tornadoes. See: I live in Birmingham and our home managed to remain relatively unscathed, but the surrounding neighborhood is devastated. The Atlantic has a photo essay up showing more of the damage. #33 is about .5 kilometers from my home. Glad to have [...]

Just a head’s up, I’ll be hosting the latest round of Blawg Review this upcoming Monday. For the unaware: Blawg Review is the blog carnival for everyone interested in law. A peer-reviewed blog carnival, the host of each Blawg Review decides which of the submissions and recommended posts are suitable for inclusion in the presentation. And the host is encouraged to [...]

First off, apparently if you are a regular (read: multiple times a week) blogger and you stop for two months most people apparently assume you are dead! I’ve been back online for a few days now and then general consensus is “You’re alive?!” Can’t a guy take a break to pass the Bar? My final [...]