Easy riders / Publish and perish
Today: Hamilton Nolan, author of the newsletter How Things Work, and the book The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor; and Misha Angrist, a senior fellow at the Initiative for Science & Society and associate professor of the practice at the Social Science Research Institute at Duke University (the views he expresses here are his alone).
Issue No. 604
Motorcycle Lawyers
Hamilton Nolan
Land of Milk and Money
Misha Angrist
Motorcycle Lawyers
by Hamilton Nolan
We’re not just motorcycle lawyers. We’re motorcycle riders. We don’t just practice law; we “practice” motorcycle riding. Not that we need much practice with that last one—we’ve been riding motorcycles for a long time.
Did I go to law school? Yes I did. But I needn’t have. Most of the stuff they said, I had already learned while sitting on my motorcycle. “If you go faster than the speed limit, that’s illegal,” the professor would say. I didn’t even need to write that down. I’d seen those speed limit signs before as I zoomed by down the road. “This is what I’m paying a school for?” I would chuckle to myself.
After class, I’d ride my motorcycle to the law library.
When it comes to choosing a motorcycle lawyer, you have plenty of options. You can go with one of those other firms full of guys in fancy suits with fancy degrees hanging on the wall. Or you can go with our firm, full of actual motorcycle riders. We also have law degrees that are perfectly adequate and fulfill all conditions for admittance to the state bar. You can take that to the bank—on your motorcycle.
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