I discovered the podcast Lawyers Behaving Badly in late January and it’s fair to say that they are the major force saving me from despair in some pretty hairy personal and national political times.

When I discovered the podcast — through a link to their delicious episode on Tom Goldstein — I posted to Bluesky:

So glad I found @badlawyerpod.bsky.social – they talk about law like we do: with all the snark and plenty of f-bombs. Thank you @jdotj.bsky.social and @gokp.bsky.social And this episode is 🤯

JJ and Karen are two lawyers with solidly corporate/defense-side careers and the sort of rollicking sense of humor about our profession that is sadly rare. They laugh at the stuffed shirts. They swear almost as much as I do. They provide hilarious examples of lawyers doing stupid, unethical things on an often unimaginable scale. They remind us never to have imposter syndrome.

I’ve actually found their corporate employment lawyer perspective interesting, as they announce that they would have counseled their client to do anything but, or laugh at the e-discovery searches involved in . . . well you really need to listen to the episode. Billionaires and tech bros (and, of course, their lawyers) are juicy targets and laughing at them is so very cathartic in these bizarre times.

Bottom line: check them out, especially if you’re a lawyer and even more if you’re a woman in our humorless profession.

Note: posting twice in one day! Does this mean I plan to blog more often? Yes! Does this mean at least one of these posts was sitting forgotten in draft for a few months? Also yes!