The first thing we do...

Shakespeare knew what o'clock it was. I read a book of a lawyer's reminiscences and it was just as arrogant, self-serving and smug as one would expect it to be. It was called Off the Record: Sidebars from a Lawyer's Life. Apparently the author was some sort of big wheel in the California trial lawyer circles and has all the fault that one would expect with such a profession in such a place in addition to the usual lawyerly amorality. Some of the stories are entertaining, but the book as a whole isn't worth mining through to find them.