The Collar That Disappeared
The detachable collar was standard equipment for professional men for nearly a century. Its disappearance wasn’t inevitable — it was a decision someone made, and not necessarily the right one.
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Bar Association Conferences This Summer — What Your Briefcase Says Before You Do
The summer legal conference circuit runs June through August. Tax Section, Family Law, Real Property — rooms full of lawyers reading each other at professional speed. What you carry matters more than most people admit.
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Porsche Built the 944 for People Who Didn’t Want a 911
The people who didn’t want a 911 turned out to be a large, loyal, and surprisingly discerning group. The 944’s dismissal was reputational — imposed by people who had decided what the car meant before they sat in it.
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Cufflinks for Men Who Never Wear a Jacket
The dress shirt with French cuffs and no jacket is one of those combinations that works in theory, falls apart in practice, and yet keeps reappearing in the wardrobes of men who should know better.
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Forty Hours In, Nobody Remembers Your Argument. They Remember Your Composure.
Legal training is almost entirely content-focused. Almost nothing in formal education addresses composure as a professional discipline — how a lawyer stands when a ruling goes against them, what their face does when opposing counsel scores a point.
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The Briefcase Didn’t Die. It Retired.
Partners stopped carrying them. Young associates never started. But the briefcase didn’t disappear — it migrated to a specific kind of lawyer, in a specific kind of courtroom, doing a specific kind of work.
