Alas, I have discovered the identity of The Anonymous Lawyer. Fuck. I didn't want to know this, really. That was half the fun, asking the question "is he a real person?" Imagining that there was a guy who was so vapid in his personal and professional lives. But then, always in the back of my head I knew it had to be a concoction of some warped law student. The bits & pieces about Anonymous Wife tipped the scales as they were a little hard to swallow, a little inconsistent at times. The attitude was a little too cynical, even for a hiring partner at a large west coast firm. Good move, putting the firm in CA, and I will say that the whole fictional scheme was rather well put together, so I tip my hat to Mr. Jeremy Blachman, 3L at Harvard Law School for his abilities with prose.

 

What led me to this unravelling of the AL mystery was the blog of Ernie the Attorney, which I just randomly stumbled across doing a google bomb for Anonymous Lawyer. The link to his article on AL is here. According to the article Blachman has a book deal upcoming and does not plan on practicing law. We know from his personal blog that he is looking for an apartment in the publishing Mecca of New York City (in Park Slope, to boot). Let's hope the book is better than the waste of ink that is Barman. Don't believe the review on Princeton that I've linked to, the book was a seemingly paid-for endorsement of BarBri review materials. I'm surprised he didn't spend more time telling us how much he liked Pepsi or Marlboro cigarettes in between his review sessions. Could have been a little more lucrative piece of drivel, Alex. Don't be confused, the book was OK, (hell, I read it through) but there was more than one time where I wanted to punch Alex in his face for being a complete doofus. I sincerely hope for the love of humanity (as I understand he has a child now) that those moments were fabricated or at least embellished for the story's sake.