Lawyerland: What Lawyers Talk About When They Talk About Law

Lawrence Joseph, the grandson of Lebanese and Syrian Catholic immigrants, was born and raised in Detroit. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Cambridge University, and the University of Michigan Law School, he is the author of six books of poetry, most recently So Where Are We?, and of Lawyerland, a novel, and The Game Changed: Essays and show more Other Prose. He is the Tinnelly Professor of Law at St. John's University School of Law and has taught creative writing at Princeton. He is married to the painter Nancy Van Goethem and lives in New York City. show less