Search - Lawrence Savell :: The Lawtunes: Live At Blackacre

Here's a music CD that is unquestionably unique: LawTunes' new allegedly-humorous, lawyer-created, law-related release, The Lawtunes: Live At Blackacre. Breaking a bit with their prior albums (Merry Lexmas From The Lawtunes, Legal Holidaze, and The Lawyer's Holiday Humor Album), the new CD is a broader take on the law, lawyers, and legal practice through ten original rock-and-roll tunes in an album not limited by content or style to any particular season. It even includes a few love songs, although expressed in the language of an attorney. Set at Blackacre, the legendary parcel of real estate so often referenced in eternally-painful law school examination questions and scholarly legal treatises/articles, the album (copy enclosed) includes: (She's An) Electronic Discovery: There's probably no hotter topic in the law today than the review and production in litigation of e-mail and other electronic documents. But that context and its developing technological terminology are appropriated with gusto to tell the tale of a lawyer falling in virtual love. Lawyers' Blood Is Typo: A lawyer is called upon to provide guidance to a client seeking a reliable life partner, and explains why he is qualified to do so. Della Street: A tribute to the most famous of legal secretaries, in a style appropriate to when Perry Mason first aired. LawMan: A hard-pounding and blunt explanation of exactly what it is that lawyers do. Orderin' In: The pleasures of working late and eating at your desk. To the extent there are any, this song extols them. Cadillac Cab: The big-city law firm/corporate perk with double-edges, as detailed herein. Little Bluebook: A lawyer frustrated in love desperately seeks guidance from the legal citation style manual, invoking a generous helping of the jargon of that treatise. Livin' Life In Six Minutes (2d ed.): A new acoustic version of a popular track from their last album lamenting the reduction of legal practice (and life) to billing increments of tenths of an hour. Everywhere There Is A Client: As close to an anthem for lawyers as there is, explaining some of why lawyers do what they do. Santa's G.C.: Well, old habits die hard. The album concludes with this whimsical tale about a lawyer who goes in-house to become General Counsel at Santa, Inc. As composed, recorded, and produced by practicing (so to speak) litigation attorney Lawrence Savell, the songs incorporate a broad spectrum of popular/classic rock-and-roll styles. As always, LawTunes' efforts are dedicated to the proposition that lawyers' zealous representation of clients and furtherance of the public good can be only enhanced by a healthy willingness of lawyers to poke fun at themselves appropriately on occasion. They hopefully contribute to the effort to make people think a little differently about lawyers, and show that attorneys are not necessarily humorless, boring, or incapable of self-deprecation (success on at least the last item I presume is guaranteed). And they demonstrate that attorneys and others dedicated to their professions need not give up or defer until retirement their dreams, be they making rock albums, writing novels, or whatever else.