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Scott Turow Goes the Extra Mile to Maintain 'Executive Platinum' Status

By Bruce Carton

Attorney Scott Turow is the well-known author of legal best-sellers such as "One L" and ?Presumed Innocent.? Among his many accomplishments in life, he undoubtedly served as an inspiration to thousands of disgruntled lawyers who secretly wanted to be novelists. You would think that between his writing career (eight books and counting) and his legal career (which he has maintained as a partner at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal) that Turow would be quite busy -- too busy, at least, to spend an entire day flying around the country on a 5,400 mile "mileage run" to keep his Executive Platinum status on American Airlines intact. But as he wrote over the holidays in The New York Times' Personal Journeys section, sometimes a prolific traveler's gotta do what a prolific traveler's gotta do. Turow writes that on Dec. 8, he went on a mileage run (flying from "O?Hare to La Guardia at 7:40 a.m., Central time. LGA to Dallas at 11:29, Eastern. DFW to San Francisco at 3:45 p.m., Central. And then SFO back to Chicago at 6:20 p.m., Pacific, landing here again a little after midnight") to make sure he retained his E.P. status. (On American, passengers get E.P. status after...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on January 07, 2010 (boomark / email).