Back in December 2008, I was honored to interview Kimberly Alderman who is a freelance attorney working from wherever her keyboard is.  When I recorded this interview she was in Alaska and since then she has traveled to the American Southwest, up and down the Northeast corridor and back to the Southwest.  All the while, she kept up with her practice because it's not tied to any one place.  How's that for work-life balance?!?

She was also able to have a transcript made of the interview (How cool is that?!?) and she asked if I would like to place a copy in the feed here.  Of course I said yes!

The transcript is a PDF file and you can find its home on her blog, Lawyer On! The Contract Attorney's Blog at http://contractattorneys.wordpress.com/ .

You can also find her on her website, http://lawyerbird.com/ or you can follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/nomadtoes .

Coming straight from the mind of J.C. Hutchinssssss...  For more information, check out http://jchutchins.net/site/personal-effects/

Personal Effects: Dark Art is fiction like you've never experienced -- and it deserves an equally innovative book trailer video. This ain't your father's book trailer. It's an ambitious mashup: part trailer, part author blurb. It was assembled on a shoestring budget, though I insist you'd never know.

Co-producer/editor Michael Bekemeyer and I spent months crafting this video for you. It's the first in a series; expect more "vlurb" installments in the weeks ahead, each featuring testimonials from icons in the horror storytelling industry. We're rewriting the rules of book promotion. We want you along for the ride.

Click play. Kick it into full-screen mode. Crank it up, and enjoy. And ... if you're feeling generous ... evangelize.

 

Please spread the word about this groundbreaking video promotion by embding the video on your blog. Email this page to friends. Tweet it. Facebook it. If you think this video is worthy of sharing, please do what you can to spread the word.

More videos are coming. Personal Effects: Dark Art. In bookstores everywhere this June.

Be afraid of The Dark.

--J.C.

UPDATE: Now available in the ubiquitous YouTube player. (Lower overall quality, but easier to share!)

The Life After Law School Podcast

This episode will be a Library Segment.  The concept was stolen from the "B" Show found at Dragon Page: Cover to Cover and was originally going to be a minor segment in each episode here.  It turned out that doing a review for each podcast was going to be a bit complicated, so I going to bring it in as a recurring segment on the show.

The books I talk about in this show are:

"Ivy Briefs: True Tales of a Neurotic Law Student" by Martha Kimes and published by Atria Books, party of Simon and Schuster.
The author's site is www.marthakimes.com
Amazon paperback - http://tinyurl.com/b5yz5q
Amazon Kindle version - http://tinyurl.com/d56ek8

"Legal Research in a Nutshell" by Morris L. Cohen and Kent C. Olsen, published in its 9th Edition by Thomson West.
West's site - http://tinyurl.com/ckewxk
Amazon - http://tinyurl.com/bxkzvz

"Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little Brown.
Author's site is http://www.gladwell.com/outliers/index.html
Amazon - http://tinyurl.com/bw48ha

"Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us" by Seth Godin and published by Penguin.
Author's site is www.sethgodin.com
Amazon - http://tinyurl.com/cxo4oz

"Solo By Choice: How to Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be" by Carolyn Elefant and published by Decision Books of Niche Press.
Author's site - www.myshingle.com
Amazon - http://tinyurl.com/cy8kqf

Promos in this Episode:

FETIDUS (4:50) by James Durham at www.fetidus.org

Commit Yourself to The Brink (18:01) Personal Effects: Dark Arts by J.C. Hutchins at http://jchutchins.net/site/the-brink/

News:

Lots of lay-off news in the legal world - Check out Above The Law and Law Shucks for in-depth coverage at http://www.abovethelaw.com/ and http://lawshucks.com/ .

"The Disappearing Associate" by Jordon Furlong on Law 21 Blog - http://tinyurl.com/dek8yk

"This is Not a Drill" by Jordon Furlong on Law 21 Blog - http://tinyurl.com/aefqop

"Lawyers As a Public Good" by Jordon Furlong on Law 21 Blog - http://tinyurl.com/cggmy9

"The Credit Crisis & Law School Loans, Take Two: Financing Bar Prep" by Dan Slater on Wall Street Journal Law Blog - http://tinyurl.com/cjjpv2

"A Law Blog Farewell" by Dan Slater on Wall Street Journal Law Blog - http://tinyurl.com/dgyjya

"Oh BigLaw: Why Pay $60k for Lawyers to Do Non-Profit Work When You Could Pay Them to Build a Lucrative Practice?" by Carolyn Elefant on My Shingle - http://tinyurl.com/cnvlar

"How to Use the Bars Revisited: A Practical Guide" by Carolyn Elefant on My Shingle - http://tinyurl.com/c8fzbs

"The Fire This Time: Thoughts on The Coming Law Firm Hiring Crisis" by Aric Press on The American Lawyer - http://tinyurl.com/bt6v8t

"A Coffee Parable" by Jay Shepherd on The Client Revolution - http://tinyurl.com/9tuglv

"The Zen of Stigma in the Legal World" by Kimberly Alderman on Lawyer On! The Contract Attorney's Blog - http://tinyurl.com/dl4ftq

Shout outs:
Kat Klaybourne - http://twitter.com/klaybourne
Congressman Jason Chaffetz - http://chaffetz.house.gov/
Gabe Acevedo - http://gabesguide.com/ (ahh-say-VAY-though) - Sorry!!


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