For years I’ve tinkered with the idea of writing a blog about the law. I love and respect the law but practicing as a lawyer is, unfortunately, wholly distinct from the law. My intent is to express my opinion about “the law,” but also to discuss things equally important such as the role of the judiciary, ethics and professionalism among attorneys, and the state of legal education in America. The law is supposed to serve human values; people do not serve the law. In recent years, I’ve seen laws and regulations that have no hope of improving the lives of individual Americans, legislatures that punt on controversial and difficult laws hoping that unelected regulators and judges do the dirty work, judges who forget that they serve us — the litigants who appear before them, not the other way around, and law schools that do nothing to educate young attorneys or to prepare them for the practice of law. Those who know me already know that my commentaries can be harsh and can appear insulting, but that is not my intent. We need to have a serious discourse about the current state and future of the law, the judiciary and legal education. Thank you for listening. I welcome your feedback.