Via Lawyer-2-be (whose name has apparently been lifted by The Lawyer for its student site, alas), I discovered the gloriously named blog Belle de Jure.
Apparently by an off-duty academic lawyer, it’s off to an entertaining start.
According to a recent post, we are to believe that the name was coined without reference to or knowledge of a certain well known blog to book writer of recent times, whom, in the circular nature of things, I mentioned way back when in the context of a discussion of anonymous blogging, a topic which is currently also troubling Belle de Jure.
Happy to though I am to believe that no reference to the London based courtesan/écrivain of negotiable virtue was intended, surely the Buñuel/Deneuve classic cannot have been overlooked?
Deneuve, of course, went on to be a model for Marianne, the spirit of the French Republic and thus the rule of Law over Royal despots. Judging by Belle de Jure’s link list, that may be a more acceptable allusion.
Hi NL – have just read your post with interest. Please elaborate on your reference to the ‘lifting’ of the lawyer-2-be name?! I wonder if this has any connection to the fact that my site traffic has pretty well quadroupled in the last 2 days… L2B :-)
Try http://www.thelawyer.com/l2b/
with an introductory message at
http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=125305&d=11&h=24&f=23
‘A New Era for Lawyer 2 Be’ indeed (dated 19th April, note).
Apart from the likelihood that it was under development for a month or several, I’d call it shameless plagiarism.
Thank you, Nearly Legal, for your generous post. I am afraid that the Bunuel/Deneuve classic was entirely overlooked, although the allusion to the revolutionary spirit is pretty accurate!
Your post on anonymity is excellent.
Best wishes,
BdJ
Indeed, it looks a trifle fishy! I’ll put a brave face on it though – if it increases my site traffic then it can only be a good thing, I think! L2B
Unfortunately The Lawyer has had Lawyer 2 Be as a magazine for about three years!. No cause of action here!
party pooper :-(