This happened more than a decade ago, so bear with me. I’ve had a number of different jobs at ALM, the parent company of this magazine, and I was just coming off a stint as a publishing IT director (what was I thinking?) and returning to my first love, being an editor and writer.

The American Lawyer’s editor at the time, Aric Press, who’s now on our masthead as senior VP-editor in chief, first made me a floating editor. We have a few national publications, and I’d pitch in wherever needed. I look back at that time as a glorious period, because I wasn’t tied to any one thing. I wrote articles on technology and lawyers, travel, even some new medical tests (I was made the subject of a body CT scan); did some editing; coached our young reporters. In general, no one knew exactly what I was up to at any given moment. Such freedom…

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