Having trouble choosing gifts for that nerdy lawyer in your life?  Here are some possibilities

(Disclaimer:  I’m sure there are non-nerdy lawyers out there.  I don’t know what they want.  Maybe a baseball glove.)

• Typography for Lawyers:  I love everything about this. And, for the low price of $120, you can get Butterick’s hand-crafted Equity font for your own legal use. Yes, you’re paying $120 for a font. Don’t think about it too long, just do it.
• Bryan Garner (@BryanAGarner): The dude has written more about words that Samuel Johnson and Noah Webster put together. He has a lot of cool stuff that I would like to see in my stocking this year:
  1. Seminars — He teaches on Advanced Legal Writing and Making Your Case
  2. Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges (co-written with Justice Antonin Scalia)
  3. Garner’s Modern American Usage (now we’re getting really nerdy):  I’ve seen mention of this dictionary a number of times online and some people actually read it. Like a book! Cover to cover! (Are my exclamation marks increasing your excitement?  No?  Well, it must just be me.)
• PACER for the iPad/iPhone (actually, it’s free, so maybe you just want to give an iPhone or an iPad).
• Green Lawyer Lamp: These things are all over lawyers’ offices in television and movies. I’ve only actually seen one in a lawyer’s office in real life. Maybe life should imitate art?
• Blackacre:  I don’t remember much about property from law school, but I do remember Blackacre.
• A hippopotamus

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