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Small world, and all that stuff

So last night, while watching the increasingly boring “The Nine,” I was perusing all my little law blog RSS feeds for the day, as I’m often wont to do. And I came across something that caught my eye - a photo of somebody I actually know. Aside from the personal blogs of a few close friends, I never see folks I actually know on blogs. Especially on legal blogs. And my first thought, of course, was “uh-oh - this can’t be good.” Particularly since this was on Above the Law, a site that loves the stupid side of law-related things as much as we do.

So this photo was of David Hoffman. Dave and I went to school together, through high school. In fact (nerd alert!), we were teammates and co-captains of our high school’s debate team. Anyway, I knew that Dave was now a law prof at my own undergrad alma matter, Temple University. So what, pray tell, did Professor Hoffman do to get himself in trouble?

Nothing, it turns out. ATL was simply reporting on a recent lunch Hoffman had with another blogger (Howard Bashman from How Appealing). ATL’s “spy” reports that Dave ate “something greasy.”

The most interesting thing about this little discovery for me, however, was learning that Dave is himself a legal blogger, as he contributes to Concurring Opinions. One recent post, for example, asks the interesting question of whether we actually need state appellate courtrooms. I don’t know if Dave takes requests, but if so: Dave, I’d love to read a post on oral advocacy. Particularly if it includes a detailed reenactment of that time in debate when you got into a rather messy verbal spat with an opponent and even, if I recall correctly, went so far as to call her a bitch.

…in Dave’s defense, of course, she was totally a bitch.

Posted by Seth on October 19, 2006 | Comments (2)