Happy First Birthday Drug and Device Law Blog
(no, the photo is neither Mark nor James, but some stock photo kid celebrating his first birthday, re-published here in full compliance with the terms of use, officer)
I, for one, wouldn't touch the name "Drug and Device" for anything in the world.
But maybe that's just the kind of place my mind goes to.
And here's what's truly great about Drug & Device's First Birthday Wish to Itself -- it says everything you need to know about how to blog and why to blog when just the other day you were using an ink-pot and quill pen.
Want to have reporters calling you for your learned opinion? Admittedly, Mark Herrman of Jones, Day was already as close to being a legal celebrity as you can get without wearing cowboy boots and a ten-gallon hat. He is, after all, the Curmudgeon whose advice riled up an entire generation of young associates on the Wall Street Journal law blog here, here, here, here, and here. But you can still take to heart his Happy Birthday post advice that law blogging can get you quoted in places like NPR, the New York Times and the like.
We "know" Mark -- not in the Biblical but in the blogger-sense, i.e., we've never actually met him or even talked to him but we like him a lot because we've gotten to know him in a writerly kind of way. Mark's the sort of guy whose mind won't go places where others might when confronted with the words "drug and device." And yet he's a funny, funny guy, at least to those in my generation from whose sensibility the Curmudgeon's Guide is written and to whose sensibilities it is directed.
When the kids now making a cool $200K in their first year of law practice (assuming those bonuses flow in) hit Mark's and my age, they'll be curmudgeons too and we'll be in the rest home. We figure that maybe you all will drop by once in awhile because we were not only early blog adopters, but we let you blog too.
I don't know Mark's blogger-in-crime James M. Beck, counsel in the Philadelphia office of Dechert LLP. But he's a published author and witty ranconteur as well (is that redundant?) and likely as learned and pleasurable a read as Mark is.
So just as soon as I start mediating cases involving either drugs or devices, I'll start reading their blog on a regular basis.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUYS!!!
MIGHTY GLAD TO HAVE YOUR COMPANY IN THE BLOGOSPHERE!!
