Ave Atque Vale ethicalEsq?

David Giacalone has, sadly, concluded that he must end or suspend his invaluable web journal -- he swore off the term "blog" for reasons first stated here and here -- ethicalEsq?

I could praise David as "tireless," but that would be almost exactly wrong: his reluctant retirement from the field is driven largely by Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The ailment has, if anything, served to focus his mind and pen wonderfully, and the accumulated posts at his site (which will remain available for the foreseeable future) contain a wealth of cogent and often wry observation on his topic of choice: the need for lawyers to maintain their focus on doing right by their clients and doing so in a fundamentally honest and honorable way. This topic is especially relevant to me, as an attorney, but this world is so awash in lawyers and it is so hard to avoid us at one time or another in one's life that the subject is always timely and always an important one even (particularly?) for non-lawyers.

David represents much of what is best in this medium and in our shared profession. Go, read, browse his archive and profit from the treasures therein.

[Cross-posted to A Fool in the Forest.]

Comments

[David Giacalone]

You are too kind and generous with your praise, George, but it would be rude of me to correct you here in public.

My high school Latin being very rusty, I had to consult Guinagh's "Dictionary of Foreign Phrases" (which I bought in 1966 and still have next to my desk) to decipher your headline. I see the phrase was used by Romans at funerals. While ethicalEsq? does need a proper burial (it definitely will not be resurrected -- or will be over my dead body), my personal ghost will continue to haunt your cyberspaces. You're nulli secundus as a new web-friend.

Meanwhile, every year on this Holiday, I get a little steamed that Cristoforo Columbo had his name Anglicized in all the history books. Maybe your Fool friend can discover the culprits and help set the record straight. [Thank goodness, they don't teach that "Mark Polk" brought pasta back to Europe from China.]