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They say that you learn from your mistakes and no law firm in the world has had a greater learning opportunity than Fairweather, Winters & Sommers. In an effort to help others, the firms senior partner, Stanley Fairweather, has put together this collection of memos, reports of meetings and miscellanea which it is hoped will be found useful by lawyers getting to grips with management. Also available, Advanced Law Firm Mismanagement'.'

With humor in the tradition of Robert Benchley and S.J. Perelman, this book reveals the absurdities of life in a law firm. Through memos, speeches, and committee meetings, the mythically inept firm of Fairweather, Winters & Sommers is described. The firm's founder, Stanley Fairweather, recalls the good and not-so-good old days and looks ahead with a bit of trepidation at where the profession is going. Lawyers are seen through the eyes of the firm's non-lawyers, secretaries, paralegals, the computer tech.

"Most of the chapters in this book appeared originally in ... Chicago lawyer, ... Lawyer hiring & training report, ... [and some] in The secret memoranda of Stanley J. Fairweather"--T.p. verso.

Via memos, speeches, and committee meetings, this volume introduces the mythically inept firm of Fairweather, Winters & Sommers through the eyes of the firm's non-lawyers--secretaries, paralegals, the computer geek--all of whom know better than anyone else how ridiculous lawyers can be.

In his fifth collection of law-firm humor, Kanter lets us see lawyers from the point of view of their clients and other outsiders. He shares with us the humorous perspectives of everyone from clients, jurors, and accountants, to the mother of a new associate trying to drum up business for her "little girl," a homeless person caught in a lawyer's well-meaning scheme to make him a charitable corporation, and the child of a two-lawyer couple who can't run a lemonade stand without everything becoming a major issue.