There have been a couple of interesting streams that have been flowing through this column-space of late. 

On the one hand, there’s been a lot of musing on the power of storytelling to capture an audience and bring people together. That would seem to be a pretty promising wellspring of inspiration for a journalist who writes about litigators, especially trial lawyers and appellate litigators who have to weave throughlines and themes out of the facts behind high-profile, high-stakes disputes.