You Know You're a Legal Ethics Wonk When....

You think it's fun to create a document like this.

Use the comments for other ways to finish my sentence.

Comments

[Alice Woolley]

you blog on a Friday night. Or a Saturday night. (or maybe that just makes you a loser. Sigh.)

[Andrew Perlman]

That makes two of us, Alice.

Here's another one: "You know you're a legal ethics wonk when you write a blog post entitled 'you know you're a legal ethics wonk when'..."

[john steele]

or if once dinner is done you read books about lawyers.

[Roy Simon]

Eisenhower once said, "An intellectual is somebody who thinks they've discovered something better than sex." Well, I've found it -- it's legal ethics! (Am I a legal ethics wonk?)

[Patrick S. O'Donnell]

I'm waiting for the post: "You Know You Envy Legal Ethics Wonks When...."

Or: "You Know You're a Wannabe Legal Ethics Wonk When...."

[john steele]

Roy, you're in the rare category of uber-wonks. It must be contagious at Hofstra.

I recall an ethics conference where the host concluded proceedings with a short, funny, (and obviously facetious) speech about being an "ethicholic." He does a lot of ethics conferences and said that he found himself waking up in strange hotels having lost track of 2-3 day periods he spent binging on conflicts and duties and breaches.

Patrick, as ethicists, we may feel the emotions that might prompt one to write such postings but we keep them in check. (Or we save them for oral discussions, at the bar, following the presentations at an ethics conference.)

[Alice Woolley]

With all due respect to Eisenhower...

You know you are a legal ethics wonk when you think talking about conflicts of interest (or confidentiality or...) is foreplay.

[Bill Freivogel]

John, I was at that meeting. The "ethiholic" said he would sit in his hotel room and look at the yellow pages for lawyer ads that violated advertising rules. Bill

[john steele]

Bill,

Yes, that was the one. Very funny. I'd mention his name, as he's one of the best in the business, but I didn't want his jokes to be taken out of context.

[Monroe Freedman]

... when you can't understand why any of these responses makes you different from everyone else in the world.