The Red Velvet Lawyer Exceeds 250,000 Page Views!
A Big Thanks to the People Who Read this Blog! On March 17, 2013, I posted my first blog post. I called it: "Make art. Think like an artist." I read it again this morning, and time has been kind to it. It still resonates. Since then, I have created nearly 400 posts. If I were Seth Godin, I'd turn them into a book or two. When I started this blog, I hoped to regain a voice I had had when I wrote a column every other month for the newspaper of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis ( BAMSL ). The newspaper had about 7,000 readers. My column was called from "Conflict to Collaboration" and discussed dispute resolution theory, techniques, ethics, and use. When I began teaching, I quit writing the column. As an academic, I lost my first-person, more colloquial voice in my law review writing. The academy prefers the conceit that the words, and any analysis they reflect, appear on the page without a p...
