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Editor's Note

Mar. 1, 2011

Editor's Note


Lawyers mess up all the time. And if the mess-up is big enough or dramatic enough or stupid enough, chances are you'll read about it--if not here, then in some other publication. (Meanwhile, for garden-variety blunders, check out our Discipline--a.k.a. Schadenfreude--section, which our reader surveys tell us remains extremely popular.)

However, once every twelve months when we select our lawyers of the y...

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