You know what time of year it is? Time for lawyers from all across the country to descend on some unsuspecting city for a week of CLE, debauchery, and impassioned arguments about mechanistic reforms to legal education! It’s ABA Annual time, folks, and we’ll be right in the middle of it.
Thanks to our colleagues from Legal Talk Network (producers of Thinking Like A Lawyer), I’ll be heading into San Francisco to cover the action in a series of articles and podcast dispatches.
If you’re in San Francisco too, drop on by to tell me all about how I suck for disrespecting the Dallas Biglaw market.

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Or just to say hello.
And you can always hit me up at my email or Twitter — there may even be some Periscoping (is that still a technology people use?) or an impromptu ATL meetup. Stay tuned.
Joe Patrice is an editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news.