Without further adieu, you can now check out the Between Lawyers Facebook group.

I was listening to parts of it last night and found a 45-second clip of it that I really liked. I tried to clean up the recording and equalize the voice levels. I like the clip because it has all five of our voices on it and it nicely captures some of the rapport that the five of us have and the sense of humor we all share. The clip is from a point about two-thirds of the way through the recording and we had gotten comfortable with the format.

In the clip, Denise tells the story of Jorn Barger, who coined the term "weblog," and the "economic rewards" that it brought him as mentioned in this Wired magazine article. We. of course, cannot resist speculating on whether Denise will end up in the same place as a result of coining the term "blawg."

I hope you enjoy the clip (download here as mp3 (approx 750K)). It's short and it will give you a different view of the five of us.

If you like the clip, let us know. We still toy with the idea of creating a Between Lawyers podcast from time to time.

In one of our occasional posts on what goes on behind the scenes at Between Lawyers in which we open the door on how lawyers really discuss legal issues of the day, here's the very learned discussion that ensued:

Dennis (note that Dennis did not realize that Denise had already posted on this topic):"Here's an interesting list on IP extremes [from Mother Jones mag], but when you read the blurb about John Cage below, it makes you wonder whether Marty might have been the lawyer in the case."

The blurb: "FOR INCLUDING a 60-second piece of silence on their album, the Planets were threatened with a lawsuit by the estate of composer John Cage, which said they’d ripped off his silent work 4’33”. The Planets countered that the estate failed to specify which 60 of the 273 seconds in Cage’s piece had been pilfered."

Marty: "I've never heard one of Cage's actual pieces. Are they 'dead air' or is the point that you hear the ambient noises (musicians sitting quietly)?"

Dennis: "Well, 4'33" is an anomalous work in Cage's canon - an intellectual witticism and a response of sorts to critics who thought his music was so darn weird. The answer to your question on the piece is, therefore, "yes." The intention of the silence would be to force you to reconsider what music, sound, silence and performance really are - a riff on Magritte's "Ceci n'est pas une Pipe" painting. It's kind of one trick pony, though, because you can only do something like that once. In its context, then, the lawyer's response to the lawsuit is the perfect artistic response and, in my mind, perhaps the artistic zenith of the legal profession in the last however many hundreds of years. Another contemporary analogy, of course, would be Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music. Excuse me, while I go crank that up and meditate on these artistic thoughts. Just my two cents."

Marty: "I guess my question really was, how did Cage's lawyers know that it was Cage's silence at all? Agreed that it is a truly great response."

Denise: (who noticed that neither Dennis nor Marty had been aware of her post on the topic) "Given that I blogged the Mother Jones List on BL, PLEASE blog at least some of the delightful context set forth in these emails there as well. (And don't be callin' ME no one trick pony, because there obviously are no limits to how many times I can persuasively urge you/all to "blog it.")"