Legal Commentary

By Evan Schaeffer

TYPES OF LAWYERS . . . Since I began this weblog in 2004, there's been a Google search that's consistently lured readers here: "Types of Lawyers."

From the very beginning, it was such a popular search query that it led me, a few years ago, to really think about the question. How many types of lawyers are there?

After a few months of work I came up with the answer. Seventeen.

Here they are, in order of their appearance on this weblog:

Types of Lawyers #1: The Big Firm Summer Associate

Types of Lawyers #2: The Partner Who Talks Too Fast

Types of Lawyers #3: The Lawyer Who Advertises on TV

Types of Lawyers #4: The Lawyer Who Carries Another Lawyer?s Briefcase

Types of Lawyers #5: The Lawyer Who Brings Her Breast Pump to the Office

Types of Lawyers #6: The Mafia Lawyer

Types of Lawyers #7: The Modest Lawyer

Types of Lawyers #8: The Partner Who Golfs

Types of Lawyers #9: The Lawyer on the Run

Types of Lawyers #10: The Lawyer Who's in the Wrong Profession

Types of Lawyers #11: The Lawyer from the Planet Og

Types of Lawyers #12: The Lawyer Who's Writing a Legal Thriller

Types of Lawyers #13: The Stereotypical Lawyer

Types of Lawyers #14: The Lawyer Who's on The Apprentice

Types of Lawyers #15: The Associate Who Knew Where the Bodies Were Buried

Types of Lawyers #16: The Lawyer with the Shiny New Gadget

Types of Lawyers #17: The Associate Who Finally Gets a Chance to Meet the Senior Partner

I think that about covers it. Seventeen different types of lawyers.

What type of lawyer do you want to be?

Full post as published by Notes from the (Legal) Underground on March 26, 2008 (boomark / email).