Jeffrey Toobinとの朝食と漫画
今日は、朝9時から、Jeffrey Toobinとの朝食会があって、参加資格を勝ち取っていたので、これに参加する。見事、彼の隣の席を確保し、talkに参加。サインももらってしまった。笑http://www.jeffreytoobin.com/彼は、New Yorkerのwriterで、CNNのシニアリーガルアナリストでもある。いわゆる、弁護士としてpartner trackに乗る人が基本的に多い中で、ちょっと変わった経歴だと思って、興味本位で参加。彼のtalkによると、とにかく、書いて出版しろ。ということだ。そうそう、執筆ってつらい。それは彼にとっても同じ。それでも、とにかく書いて出版しろ。ブログもいいが、あれはお金にならない。人間が生きる以上、Make a livingしないといけない。人々が何を読みたいと思っているか、Legalではない人に対して、何を伝えるべきなか。キャリアパスについては、何がマイナスか、プラスかなんて分からない。You should do what you want, because nobody knows what will happen.そりゃそーだ。でも、このシンプルな事実を人は忘れがちだよな、と思った。以下、参考までに彼のプロフを。Jeffrey Toobin, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1993 and the senior legal analyst for CNN, is one of the most recognized and admired legal journalists in the country. Toobin joined CNN in 2002 after six years with ABC News. In 2000, he received an Emmy Award for his coverage of the Elian Gonzalez case. His new book, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, was published in the fall of 2007. His previous book was Too Close to Call: The 36-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election, which was published in 2001. Toobin is also the author of the bestselling books A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal that Nearly Brought Down a President (2000) and The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson (1996). Since joining the magazine, Toobin has covered legal affairs and written profiles of Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer, Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas, as well as such subjects as the legal implications of the war on terror, Attorney General John Ashcroft, the Florida recount, Kenneth Starr’s investigation of President Clinton, and the trials of Martha Stewart, Timothy McVeigh and O. J. Simpson. In his article "Lunch With Martha," published in the February 3, 2003, issue of the magazine, Toobin obtained the first interview with Martha Stewart regarding her investigation for insider trading. His article "An Incendiary Defense," published in the July 25, 1994, issue of the magazine, disclosed for the first time the Simpson defense team’s plans to accuse Mark Fuhrman of planting evidence and to play "the race card." Before joining The New Yorker, Toobin served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Brooklyn, New York. He also served as an associate counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh, an experience that provided the basis for his first book, Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer’s First Case: United States v. Oliver North. Jeffrey Toobin received his B.A. from Harvard College in 1982, and, in 1986, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He lives in Manhattan.