So you want a gift to give to your mentor, mentee, friend, coworker, boss, or other lawyer you know? Try my friend Lisa Solomon at The Billable Hour. Here is what Lisa has for 2007:
Our Music Department, carries the world's most comprehensive line of humorous CDs by and for lawyers. Where else can you find music by The Bar & Grill Singers and Bob Noone & the Well Hung Jury, as well as CDs like The Billable Hour Blues (by Dan Klau) and Soulless, Bloodsucking Lawyers: A Brief Musical (the soundtrack to an original play by the same name written by Minnesota lawyer, speaker, comedian and playwright Toni Halleen) in one place? And, of course, we carry a full line of CDs by legal music veteran Lawrence Savell, including his brand new album, The Lawtunes: Live at Blackacre.
Our Original Pocket Briefcase and Soft Sided Leather Pocket Briefcase make perfect stocking-stuffers.
We also have a growing Games and Books Department, and, in our continuing quest to help lawyers achieve work/life balance, we have added Helios Pens—which appear to float in the air as they balance over their gracefully curved bases—to our TBH Office Department.
In fact, we've been adding so many fun products to our website that we know it must be getting hard for our website visitors to choose just one item for that special lawyer, law student or legal professional in their lives. So we've carefully sifted through our inventory of products and assembled Survival Kits for Judges, Partners, Associates, Law Students, Paralegals, and one especially for anyone preparing for—or awaiting the results of—the Bar Exam.
Each kit contains one of our signature timepieces, plus a selection of items from our Music, Games and TBH Office departments. The items are artfully arranged in a first aid-themed gift box (the Partner Survival Kit comes in a photorealistic golf cart gift bag) and topped by a huge 4" red bow.
Over at The Billable Hour Card Store, we've added over 100 new humorous legal greeting cards, bringing our selection of humorous legal cards to over 200. You can't find these cards anywhere else on the web: they are exclusive to The Billable Hour Card Store. Stu's Views (our largest collection) is by Stu Rees, a cartoonist who—when he's not drawing—represents other cartoonists in their legal matters. The Lawtoons line is from Suzan Charlton, a professional cartoonist who is rumored to practice insurance coverage law as a hobby for a major Washington D.C. law firm. Her cartoons cover a wide range of law-related topics, from law school grades to law firm romance. The Cartoons by Dan line is by Dan Rosandich (who, while not a lawyer, has a better grasp of many legal concepts than opposing counsel on some of cases). All of our cards can be used as holiday cards, since the inside message is completely customizable.
We also carry a wide selection of more "traditional" holiday cards featuring nonlegal themes (such as snowflakes, ornaments, Christmas trees and menorahs).
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And now a word from me: I get asked to review all kinds of products. Very few do I recommend. You know the list by now. Lisa and The Billable Hour have the most creative gifts I have found. If only she would get some Lawyers Breath hot sauce, made right here in the Sacramento Valley, she would have it all. Even without the hot sauce, Lisa has more lawyer gifts in her online store than you can find in all of the Central Valley. Give it a peek!
