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Margolick to Portfolio's rescue

By Mark Obbie

I've been one of Portfolio's happy charter subscribers (unlike the many commentators who mock the big Conde Nast business start-up). But one thing lacking has been prominent legal affairs stories. Now that may change, big time. The New York Observer's John Koblin reports that Vanity Fair's David Margolick is joining Portfolio as a contributing editor. Margolick covered the O.J. Simpson trial, and less notoriously the business of law and legal-affairs issues, for The New York Times. He toiled long ago toiled at the National Law Journal. Most recently he profiled New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer for Vanity Fair. His greatest legal-reporting moment at Vanity Fair was the October 2004 piece he co-authored with Evgenia Peretz and Michael Shnayerson that told the behind-the-scenes Supreme Court story of Bush v. Gore (alas, no link available). I don't always agree with him, but there's no doubt that he's among the top legal writers -- and should punch up Portfolio's legal smarts.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on January 18, 2008 (boomark / email).