Robert Ambrogi at Jaffe Associates directed me to an announcement of the National Legal Fiction Writing Competition for Lawyers.
Is your inner Grisham goading you to leave law? Are you convinced you have the talent of Turow? Here is the chance to show your stuff: the National Legal Fiction Writing Competition for Lawyers. [Caution: link is to PDF]. Sponsored by Seak Inc., first prize is a $1,000 gift certificate and lunch with lawyer/authors Lisa Scottoline and Stephen Horn.
Turow is an attorney at a law firm less than a block from where I’m sitting. He wrote his best selling novel Presumed Innocent on the commuter train to Chicago — 25 minutes each morning.
I hope that the next great legal fiction artist will emerge from the intellectual property field. (We already have the best poker player.)
Although not himself a patent attorney, Brian C. Coad has published his second Wally Mason book. This one titled “Notes of a Patent Attorney: The Wally Mason Stories.” According to his bio, Mr. Coad holds about twenty patents, and has published technical papers, poetry, and op-ed pieces for local newspapers in addition to his fiction.
