Melissa Lafsky

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Melissa Lafsky is the author of the Opinionistas blog, which formerly focused on the dehumanizing aspects of law firms.

[edit] Education and legal career

Lafsky attended National Cathedral School in Washington D.C., then graduated from Dartmouth College in 2000. She then received her J.D. from The University of Virginia School of Law. She began writing Opinionistas anonymously while working as a junior associate at the firm of Littler Mendelsonin New York City. After her blog was discovered by Gawker in April 2005, it became hugely popular and was eventually profiled in the New York Times. She then resigned her law firm position in December 2005 to pursue a career in writing, and revealed her identity to the New York Observer in January 2006.

While working on a novel based on her law firm experiences, she has written for publications including The New York Post, Salon, Wired and the Columbia Journal of American Studies, and currently serves as an associate editor at The Huffington Post, where she writes editorials and media commentary for Eat The Press.

[edit] External links

• January 18, 2006, New York Observer article, which revealed Lafsky's identity
• November 6, 2005, New York Times article, which profiled Lafsky's blog
• September 22, 2005, Harvard Law Record article, which profiled Lafsky's blog