From a story on niemanlab.org by Richard Tofel headlined “Four lessons from two decades of newsroom lawyering”:

Sometime early next month, I will formally retire from the practice of law after 26 years at the bar, including more than 21 years as a full- or part-time newsroom attorney.1 As I do this, I want to take stock of a few of the more important things I think I have learned.