Years ago,
when I worked as a lowly Associate at private communications law firms, I pondered
the meaning of Partners’ small Lucite tombstones commemorating an initial
public stock offering, or the closing of a financing or acquisition deal.
Some
Associates may have gotten a tombstone, but I never did . . . until quite
recently.
In the mail
this week I received a tombstone commemorating my first place academic paper at
the 2020 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, Law Division annual conference.
Just now, I
am reminded of vanity and the psychology concept of cognitive dissonance: how
lawyers and academics alike toil endlessly for meaning and validation.
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