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Today We Mark Our 500th Post! (And one great interview!)

By Eric L. Lipman

Just over two years ago, I started posting to Within the Scope, and it has been among the most interesting and rewarding ventures of my professional life.

Through these pages, I have been linked in with fellow lawyers (... and the just-plain curious) from every time zone on the globe; some of my case synopses have made it into Mr. Jefferson's library; and, best of all, I have had many more than 500 wonderful conversations about developments in the case law with you.

To celebrate this milestone, I imposed upon five celebrity readers of this web log to jointly write the 500th post.

At the link below, Chief Justice of Minnesota Eric J. Magnuson, Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court G. Barry Anderson, Counsel to the Governor Karen Janisch, Assistant Hennepin County Attorney Peter Orput and Associate Editor of the Minnesota Lawyer Barbara Jones, answer a series of five questions. Those questions were:

1. In what way has the internet had the greatest impact upon the practice of law?

2. What book should every lawyer read (and why)?

3. What written decision, handed down by a federal court in 2008, should every lawyer read (and why)?

4. Reflecting upon the examples of bad lawyering that you have seen over the course of your career, is there are particular trait that lawyers who perform poorly share?

5. What should "Within the Scope" try to highlight over the course of the next 500 posts?

The panelists' fascinating replies are accessible here.

Full post as published by Within the Scope on November 03, 2008 (boomark / email).