Scheherazade’s observations about the Anonymous Lawyer’s unveiling are to the point and capture the mood of many. In particular:
Basically, the three big lessons for me are: 1) the blog as a medium
has an inherent credibility. 2) Humans in general, and lawyers in
particular, are amazingly susceptible to status and heirarchy —
Anonymous Lawyer’s appeal was the perception of access to honesty from
the upper stratus of the standard professional heirarchy, and the
delicious way the author could make explicit all the power struggles
and displays of status and power within a law firm. Jeremy can convey
that in beautiful, elegant turns of phrase. 3) The profession really
is draining talent, energy, and enthusiasm from a huge hunk of lawyers,
which is a travesty. Anonymous Lawyer was fiction, but too many people
recognized themselves in the mirror Jeremy held up.