Colin Marshall talks to The Philadelphia Lawyer, author of both the web site of the same name and the book The Happy Hour is For Amateurs: A Lost Decade in the World’s Worst Profession,
which is now out in paperback. Combining Kafka-like tales of the
gamesmanship and pedantry of the legal profession with vivid accounts
of the intense debauchery required to counterbalance all that wasted
time in the office, The Philadelphia Lawyer’s web presence has
attracted a large, devoted audience of disaffected litigators,
suspicious law students and dedicated bacchanalists alike. His book
brings the distinctive sensibility of his much-e-mailed stories into
long-form narrative.