Elyse DiPierri, sales and marketing director for Above the Law, at the NALP conference booth for ATL (booth #53 -- feel free to drop by if you're here).

Greetings from Washington, host city for the 2009 annual education conference of the National Association for Law Placement (NALP). We've been down in our former stomping grounds since Tuesday. The conference started yesterday and will continue into Saturday.

We attended a number of very interesting events yesterday -- and participated in a fun and lively plenary panel, entitled "Don't Fight the Web: Surviving and Thriving in a 2.0 World" -- and we will be filing a few reports on the proceedings. Although we understand that there are fewer attendees this year, which is understandable in light of the economic crisis, the conference still appears to be well-attended (standing room only at several panels, including our plenary).

In addition to attending events, catching up with old friends, and networking up a storm, we've been manning the Above the Law booth in the exhibition hall. Check out a slideshow of booth photos -- featuring ATL swag, as well as our lovely and amazing advertising sales director, Elyse DiPierri -- after the jump.

In the pics below, you'll see some ATL swag -- tote bags, T-shirts, and gavel-shaped stress balls. Alas, demand has been so high that we've run out of t-shirts and gavels. We're ordering more, which maybe we'll sell through ATL (and also give away as prizes in reader contests, to winners of Legal Eagle Wedding Watch, etc.). If you're interested, keep an eye out for the announcement.

Thanks to Michael Lovatt of Chambers and Partners, our friendly next-door neighbor in the NALP Resource Center, who took some of these photos. This terribly charming chap is attending NALP to promote Chambers Associate, an online guide to U.S. law firms that will be launching in May.

Enjoy!