{"title":"Gallery Leather","description":"\u003cp\u003eGallery Leather binds journals and dated planners in Trenton, Maine, in full-grain leather tanned in Spain, with sewn signatures, ivory pages and gilded edges — the construction of a proper book rather than a notepad. The maker guarantees them for life and will foil-stamp initials or a name on request.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis page gathers what we carry from the bindery: the Desk and Large ruled journals in Monhegan Black, and the 2027 planners — Pocket Weekly, Professional Weekly and Large Monthly — in six leathers. On whether a lawyer's calendar belongs on paper at all, read \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/field-guide\/paper-or-screen\"\u003ePaper, or Screen?\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"large-leather-journal-ruled","title":"Large Leather Journal — Ruled","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Large Leather Journal\u003c\/strong\u003e is a bound, ruled notebook in full-grain black leather for the lawyer who keeps a record rather than a pile — the call you took, the witness you reached, the reason you chose one argument over another, in one book, in the order it happened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFull-grain cowhide; leather from the Valencia region of Spain\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMonhegan Black — soft, slightly textured full-grain finish; every cover varies with the hide\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCollege ruled — approx. 7.1mm line spacing · 192 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e100 gsm paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBook-bound — sewn signatures; pages do not detach\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eGilt-edged pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e9.75 × 7.5 in\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAssembled in Trenton, Maine; book block made in Korea\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePersonal Data page printed inside the cover\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eShips in the maker's gift box\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eGuaranteed for life by the maker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOpen the cover and two things are already printed there. The page edges are gilded — gold against black leather, visible the moment the book is closed — a finishing step that has nothing to do with how the paper takes ink and everything to do with a bindery that does not cut corners where no one is required to look. And the first page is a Personal Data page: lines for name, home and business address, phone, cell, email, and an emergency contact. Fill it in. It is the difference between a notebook left in a courthouse coming back to your desk and it not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe paper runs 100 gsm, ruled at college width — about 7.1 millimeters between lines, closer to a legal pad's spacing than a pocket notebook's, and sized for a hand that writes at speed rather than one that prints in miniature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA legal pad is a surface you write on and throw away. This is the other thing — the book that stays. The pages are sewn into the binding rather than gummed to a backing, so entries stand in the sequence you made them and nothing leaves without showing that it did. That matters more in this profession than in most. Contemporaneous notes refresh a recollection years later, document who was told what and when, answer a fee dispute, and occasionally get produced. A record that cannot be quietly reordered is worth keeping in a form that proves it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe size is the working size. At 9.75 by 7.5 inches a ruled line is long enough to take a full thought at speed, with room in the margin for the annotation you add on the second pass, and the book sits open beside a file without crowding the desk. This is a notebook you write in at a table, not one you balance on a knee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRuled, not blank. Almost nothing in a practice is drawn — the notes are prose and dated lists, and prose wants lines. If you want a book to sketch in, this is the wrong one, and we do not stock the right one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuilt for the record you keep, not the paper you hand across a table. If you want the same book in a size that travels in a briefcase, see the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/desk-leather-journal-ruled\"\u003eDesk Leather Journal\u003c\/a\u003e. If you want a case built around a legal pad you will tear from, see \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-padfolio\"\u003eThe Brief\u003c\/a\u003e; for a zippered portfolio that carries documents rather than holds notes, see \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-portfolio\"\u003eThe Docket\u003c\/a\u003e — or read \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/field-guide\/padfolio-or-portfolio\"\u003ePadfolio, or Portfolio?\u003c\/a\u003e if you are deciding between the formats. \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/field-guide\/paper-or-screen\"\u003ePaper, or Screen?\u003c\/a\u003e — Field Guide No. 10 — argues why the record belongs in a bound book rather than a notes app, and why a lawyer keeps a planner and a journal both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eQuestions we get\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy keep a bound journal instead of notes on my phone?\u003c\/strong\u003e The phone's notes are searchable and always with you, and nothing here argues otherwise. A sewn, dated journal does three things they don't: it stays in the order you wrote it, so no entry can be quietly moved or thinned; it can be handed across a table when someone asks what was said and when (see Fed. R. Evid. 612 and 803(5)); and it is yours — the firm's devices and accounts stay behind when you leave. The record is the point. Field Guide No. 10, \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/field-guide\/paper-or-screen\"\u003ePaper, or Screen?\u003c\/a\u003e, has the argument and the sources.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy ruled rather than blank?\u003c\/strong\u003e Because of what the book is for. Call logs, witness contacts, research notes, meeting records — all of it is prose and dated lists, and none of it is drawn. Blank paper is a sketchbook, which is a real thing and a different one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs this the one to carry, or the one to keep on the desk?\u003c\/strong\u003e The desk. At 9.75 by 7.5 inches it is the larger of the two and it earns that size sitting open beside a file. The \u003ca href=\"\/products\/desk-leather-journal-ruled\"\u003eDesk Leather Journal\u003c\/a\u003e is the same book built to travel, with the same 192 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCan I tear a page out?\u003c\/strong\u003e Not cleanly, and that is the point. The signatures are sewn into the binding. If you need paper to hand across a table, use a pad and keep this for the record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDoes it lie flat when open?\u003c\/strong\u003e Not on the first sitting, though at this size it usually gets there quickly. The binding wants to be worked in — open the book fully and bend the cover back a few times — and most copies of the Large journal settle flat within the first few uses; some do it from the start.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat about fountain pens?\u003c\/strong\u003e The paper is 100 gsm. Ink behavior on any notebook depends on the pen and the ink as much as the paper, so we won't promise every fountain pen and ink combination will perform cleanly. What we can tell you plainly: this stock is not built for a broad marker or watercolor, and either will bleed straight through.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat is the Personal Data page?\u003c\/strong\u003e The first leaf inside the cover, printed for name, home and business address, phone, cell, email, and an emergency contact. A sewn book has no barcode to scan if it goes missing. This is the maker's answer to that, and it works only if you use it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWill mine look like the photograph?\u003c\/strong\u003e Close, but not identical. Monhegan is a full-grain finish that shows the natural variation of the hide, so the grain and the way it takes the light differ from cover to cover. The photograph is one book, not a template.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhere is it made?\u003c\/strong\u003e Assembled at Gallery Leather's facility in Trenton, Maine. The leather comes from the Valencia region of Spain and the book block from a supplier in Korea. Gallery Leather does not claim \"Made in the USA\" without the qualification the law requires of it, and neither do we. The book says as much itself: printed on the Personal Data page is the maker's own line, \u003cem\u003e\"GALLERY LEATHER CO., INC. · TRENTON, MAINE 04605 · Bound in the U.S.A. · Printed in Korea.\"\u003c\/em\u003e We are only repeating what it already tells you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat does the guarantee cover?\u003c\/strong\u003e Construction, at any time. In Gallery Leather's own words, if for any reason you are dissatisfied with the construction of one of its products, it will repair or replace it, without question, free of charge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSee the rest of our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/journals-desk\"\u003ejournals, planners and desk pieces for lawyers\u003c\/a\u003e in the Journals \u0026amp; Desk collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBarrister \u0026amp; Bespoke Curated Collection — hand-selected from Gallery Leather of Trenton, Maine, for its craftsmanship and fit within our world. Curated pieces carry their maker's own identity rather than ours; our house collection, designed and branded exclusively for Barrister \u0026amp; Bespoke, is marked separately throughout the shop.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGallery Leather assembles its books at a manufacturing facility in Trenton, Maine. The leather comes from Spain and the book blocks from Korea, and the company says so plainly — it declines to claim \"Made in the USA\" without the qualification the law attaches to imported materials. A maker willing to tell you where each part came from before being asked is a maker whose lifetime guarantee is worth something. That is why the line is here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWarranty.\u003c\/strong\u003e This Product carries Gallery Leather's guarantee on the construction of every product it makes: if at any time you are dissatisfied with the construction, the maker will repair or replace it, without question, free of charge. Barrister \u0026amp; Bespoke's own Thirty-Day Assurance covers the first thirty days after delivery. Full terms, including how to make a claim, are stated in our \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/warranty-policy\"\u003eWarranty Policy\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gallery Leather","offers":[{"title":"Monhegan Black","offer_id":51641496699195,"sku":"20082","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0963\/8153\/4523\/files\/large-leather-journal-ruled-black-01-main.jpg?v=1790523598"},{"product_id":"desk-leather-journal-ruled","title":"Desk Leather Journal — Ruled","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Desk Leather Journal\u003c\/strong\u003e is the bound, ruled notebook that goes in the bag — full-grain black leather, 192 pages, sized to travel to a courthouse and back without being the largest thing you are carrying.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFull-grain cowhide; leather from the Valencia region of Spain\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMonhegan Black — soft, slightly textured full-grain finish; every cover varies with the hide\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNarrow ruled — 6.4mm line spacing · 192 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e100 gsm paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBook-bound — sewn signatures; pages do not detach\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eGilt-edged pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSoft cover\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e8 × 5.5 in\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAssembled in Trenton, Maine; book block made in Korea\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePersonal Data page printed inside the cover\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eShips in the maker's gift box\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eGuaranteed for life by the maker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOpen the cover and two things are already printed there. The page edges are gilded — gold against black leather, visible the moment the book is closed — a finishing step that has nothing to do with how the paper takes ink and everything to do with a bindery that does not cut corners where no one is required to look. And the first page is a Personal Data page: lines for name, home and business address, phone, cell, email, and an emergency contact. Fill it in. It is the difference between a notebook left in a courthouse coming back to your desk and it not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe paper runs 100 gsm, ruled narrow — 6.4 millimeters between lines, tighter than the Large journal's spacing, which is the trade a smaller page makes for the same 192 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery practice runs two note-taking surfaces, whether or not anyone plans it that way. There is the pad on the desk, which is disposable, and there is the book that travels — the one that holds the call you took in the corridor, the name the clerk gave you, the number the other side floated before anyone put it in writing. This is the second one. Sewn signatures mean entries stay in the order you made them, which is the only property that makes a travelling notebook worth anything six months later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 8 by 5.5 inches it goes flat into a briefcase alongside a file rather than on top of one, and the soft cover takes the shape of the bag instead of fighting it. The trade against the larger book is real and worth stating: shorter lines, less margin, and a page that fills faster. What you get back is a notebook that is actually with you when the thing worth writing down happens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRuled, not blank. Almost nothing in a practice is drawn — the notes are prose and dated lists, and prose wants lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuilt to travel, not to sit. If you want the same book in the larger size that sits open beside a file on a desk, see the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/large-leather-journal-ruled\"\u003eLarge Leather Journal\u003c\/a\u003e. For a case built around a legal pad you will tear from, see \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-padfolio\"\u003eThe Brief\u003c\/a\u003e; for a zippered portfolio that carries documents rather than holds notes, see \u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-portfolio\"\u003eThe Docket\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/field-guide\/padfolio-or-portfolio\"\u003ePadfolio, or Portfolio?\u003c\/a\u003e argues the carrying formats. \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/field-guide\/paper-or-screen\"\u003ePaper, or Screen?\u003c\/a\u003e — Field Guide No. 10 — makes the case for the book against the notes app.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eQuestions we get\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDo lawyers still keep handwritten notes?\u003c\/strong\u003e Overwhelmingly. In Attorney at Work's 2024 survey, 84 percent of practicing lawyers said they take handwritten notes constantly or several times a day, and 86 percent reach for paper over a tablet. The reason is not nostalgia: a bound book that travels is a contemporaneous record in fixed sequence, in your own hand, that leaves the firm with you. The phone remembers to remind you; the book remembers what happened. Field Guide No. 10, \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/field-guide\/paper-or-screen\"\u003ePaper, or Screen?\u003c\/a\u003e, makes the case for keeping both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow is this different from the large journal?\u003c\/strong\u003e Size and ruling, mainly. The leather, binding, gilding, page count and guarantee are identical to the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/large-leather-journal-ruled\"\u003eLarge Leather Journal\u003c\/a\u003e — both books run 192 pages on the same 100 gsm paper. This one rules narrow, at 6.4mm, against the Large's college-width 7.1mm, and is built to travel; the larger book is built to sit open on a desk beside a file.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy ruled rather than blank?\u003c\/strong\u003e Because of what the book is for. Call logs, witness contacts, research notes, meeting records — all of it is prose and dated lists, and none of it is drawn. Blank paper is a sketchbook, which is a real thing and a different one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCan I tear a page out?\u003c\/strong\u003e Not cleanly, and that is the point. The signatures are sewn into the binding. If you need paper to hand across a table, use a pad and keep this for the record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDoes it lie flat when open?\u003c\/strong\u003e Not right away. The binding wants to be worked in — open the book fully and bend the cover back a few times — and it will settle flat within the first handful of uses. Expect a short break-in before it lies open on its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat about fountain pens?\u003c\/strong\u003e The paper is 100 gsm. Ink behavior on any notebook depends on the pen and the ink as much as the paper, so we won't promise every fountain pen and ink combination will perform cleanly. What we can tell you plainly: this stock is not built for a broad marker or watercolor, and either will bleed straight through.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat is the Personal Data page?\u003c\/strong\u003e The first leaf inside the cover, printed for name, home and business address, phone, cell, email, and an emergency contact. A sewn book has no barcode to scan if it goes missing. This is the maker's answer to that, and it works only if you use it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWill mine look like the photograph?\u003c\/strong\u003e Close, but not identical. Monhegan is a full-grain finish that shows the natural variation of the hide, so the grain and the way it takes the light differ from cover to cover. The photograph is one book, not a template.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhere is it made?\u003c\/strong\u003e Assembled at Gallery Leather's facility in Trenton, Maine. The leather comes from the Valencia region of Spain and the book block from a supplier in Korea. Gallery Leather does not claim \"Made in the USA\" without the qualification the law requires of it, and neither do we. The book says as much itself: printed on the Personal Data page is the maker's own line, \u003cem\u003e\"GALLERY LEATHER CO., INC. · TRENTON, MAINE 04605 · Bound in the U.S.A. · Printed in Korea.\"\u003c\/em\u003e We are only repeating what it already tells you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat does the guarantee cover?\u003c\/strong\u003e Construction, at any time. In Gallery Leather's own words, if for any reason you are dissatisfied with the construction of one of its products, it will repair or replace it, without question, free of charge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSee the rest of our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/journals-desk\"\u003ejournals, planners and desk pieces for lawyers\u003c\/a\u003e in the Journals \u0026amp; Desk collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBarrister \u0026amp; Bespoke Curated Collection — hand-selected from Gallery Leather of Trenton, Maine, for its craftsmanship and fit within our world. Curated pieces carry their maker's own identity rather than ours; our house collection, designed and branded exclusively for Barrister \u0026amp; Bespoke, is marked separately throughout the shop.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGallery Leather assembles its books at a manufacturing facility in Trenton, Maine. The leather comes from Spain and the book blocks from Korea, and the company says so plainly — it declines to claim \"Made in the USA\" without the qualification the law attaches to imported materials. A maker willing to tell you where each part came from before being asked is a maker whose lifetime guarantee is worth something. That is why the line is here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWarranty.\u003c\/strong\u003e This Product carries Gallery Leather's guarantee on the construction of every product it makes: if at any time you are dissatisfied with the construction, the maker will repair or replace it, without question, free of charge. Barrister \u0026amp; Bespoke's own Thirty-Day Assurance covers the first thirty days after delivery. Full terms, including how to make a claim, are stated in our \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/warranty-policy\"\u003eWarranty Policy\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gallery Leather","offers":[{"title":"Monhegan Black","offer_id":51641497289019,"sku":"20077","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0963\/8153\/4523\/files\/desk-leather-journal-ruled-black-01-main.jpg?v=1790523558"},{"product_id":"professional-leather-planner-2027","title":"Professional Leather Planner 2027 — Weekly","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Professional Leather Planner\u003c\/strong\u003e is Gallery Leather's week-at-a-glance book in full-grain leather — two pages to the week, the weekday ruled in timed half-hour lines from seven in the morning to half past seven at night — Saturday and Sunday sharing a column of plain lines with a notes block — and a monthly section behind it for the view from altitude. It is the planner for a calendar that is run in hours, which is to say a lawyer's.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFull-grain leather cover in six colors — Monhegan Black, Cocoa, Saddle, Emerald; Tremont Atlantic, Garnet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLeather from the Valencia region of Spain; every cover varies with the hide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWeekly section January–December 2027 — two pages per week, vertical format, timed half-hour increments 7 AM to 7:30 PM Monday–Friday (Saturday and Sunday are plain lines with a notes block), with extra space at the top of each weekday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMonthly section July 2026 – June 2028\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e192 pages · 9 × 7 in · soft cover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBook-bound — sewn signatures; pages do not detach\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIvory ribbon bookmark\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAssembled in Trenton, Maine; book block made in Korea\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShips direct from the maker's bindery, in a gift box\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePersonalization available — initials or up to two lines, foil-stamped lower right by the maker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGuaranteed for life by the maker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe week is the unit. Open the book and Monday through Friday run down two facing pages in columns, each weekday ruled off in timed half-hours from 7 AM to 7:30 PM; Saturday and Sunday share the last column as plain lines with a notes block. A 9:30 deposition takes a line. A hearing that runs from 2 until it is over takes several, and you can see at a glance what it has pushed. The extra space at the head of each day is for the thing that starts before seven — the flight, the early call with the coast — and the monthly pages behind the weekly section carry the same year from July 2026 through June 2028, so trial dates set eighteen months out have somewhere to go.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHalf-hours matter more than they sound. Many planners rule the day in hours or not at all, and a practice does not run in hours. It runs in the fifteen minutes before the client arrives and the twenty after opposing counsel leaves. Half-hour lines are the closest a printed page gets to the way the day is actually cut, and the vertical format puts the whole week's shape in front of you without turning a page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cover is full-grain leather — Monhegan, a soft, slightly textured finish that shows the variation of the hide, or Tremont, a goat-grain finish that is clearly visible and consistent from cover to cover. Six colors, because this book ships from the maker rather than from our shelf, and we are not limited to the black we stock in the journals. Black is the one that goes unremarked in any room. Cocoa and Saddle are the browns. Emerald, Atlantic and Garnet are for the lawyer who has decided the planner is allowed to be noticed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDated, not undated. A dated planner is the only kind that is a record — it proves where the day went, in sequence, in your hand, in a book that cannot be quietly reordered. That is worth more in this profession than in most. Contemporaneous entries refresh a recollection years later, document who was where and when, and answer a fee dispute. This is the planner for the year you will want to be able to prove.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuilt for the week, not the month. If your calendar is a small number of large events rather than a large number of small ones — a transactional practice, a docket of a few matters at a time — see the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/large-monthly-leather-planner-2027\"\u003eLarge Monthly Leather Planner\u003c\/a\u003e, which gives the whole month two pages and leaves the hours to your phone. If you want the same weekly book in a size that lives in a jacket pocket, see the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/pocket-weekly-leather-planner-2027\"\u003ePocket Weekly Leather Planner\u003c\/a\u003e. For the undated book that keeps the notes rather than the schedule, see the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/large-leather-journal-ruled\"\u003eLarge Leather Journal\u003c\/a\u003e. And if the real question is whether a paper planner earns its place beside the calendar on your phone, read \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/field-guide\/paper-or-screen\"\u003ePaper, or Screen?\u003c\/a\u003e — Field Guide No. 10 argues both sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eQuestions we get\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy keep a paper planner when the firm's calendar is on my phone?\u003c\/strong\u003e Keep both; they do different work. The phone reminds you, shares the calendar with your assistant and the docket clerk, and searches in seconds — no book does that. The paper planner shows the whole week in one look, stays yours when you leave the firm and the phone is wiped, and its dated pages are a record you can put in front of someone. Malpractice carriers still ask whether you keep a second, independent calendar. The argument in full, with sources, is Field Guide No. 10, \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/field-guide\/paper-or-screen\"\u003ePaper, or Screen?\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeekly or monthly — which one?\u003c\/strong\u003e Ask how your day is cut. If it is cut in appointments — depositions, hearings, client meetings, calls at set times — the weekly book with its half-hour lines is the one, and this is it. If the calendar is a few large dates a month and the hours live elsewhere, the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/large-monthly-leather-planner-2027\"\u003eLarge Monthly\u003c\/a\u003e is the better book and the lighter one. Choose based on how many things happen at a fixed time in an ordinary week, not on which layout looks tidier, and you'll rarely choose wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat are the date ranges, exactly?\u003c\/strong\u003e The weekly section runs January through December 2027. The monthly section runs July 2026 through June 2028 — two full years across the 2027 book, so a date set well past December has a page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow does it ship?\u003c\/strong\u003e Directly from Gallery Leather's bindery in Trenton, Maine, in a gift box, under our name — nothing in the box carries anyone else's pricing or paperwork. That is how we can offer six colors instead of one. Unpersonalized planners typically leave the bindery within a few business days; personalized ones usually within eight, and ten at the outside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow does personalization work?\u003c\/strong\u003e Choose it when you order — initials, one line, or two — and enter the text on this page. The maker foil-stamps it in gold in the lower right corner of the cover; on the full-grain leathers we carry, gold is the only foil offered. Type is set in all capitals or upper-and-lower, and the maker sizes the lettering to the space, so shorter is better. Personalized planners are made to your order and cannot be returned or exchanged unless the personalization error is the maker's. Personalization adds time, because the book is stamped after you order it rather than pulled off a shelf. Figure eight business days at the bindery, ten at the outside; an unpersonalized planner leaves in a few. The wait is the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDoes it lie flat when open?\u003c\/strong\u003e The maker builds the interior on a lay-flat design with sewn signatures. Expect a short break-in — open the book fully and bend the cover back a few times — before it sits open on its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWill mine look like the photograph?\u003c\/strong\u003e Close, but not identical. Monhegan and Tremont are full-grain finishes that show the natural variation of the hide, so the grain and the way it takes the light differ from cover to cover. The photograph is one book, not a template.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhere is it made?\u003c\/strong\u003e Assembled at Gallery Leather's facility in Trenton, Maine. The leather comes from the Valencia region of Spain and the book block from a supplier in Korea. Gallery Leather does not claim \"Made in the USA\" without the qualification the law requires of it, and neither do we.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat does the guarantee cover?\u003c\/strong\u003e Construction, at any time. In Gallery Leather's own words, if for any reason you are dissatisfied with the construction of one of its products, it will repair or replace it, without question, free of charge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSee the rest of our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/journals-desk\"\u003ejournals, planners and desk pieces for lawyers\u003c\/a\u003e in the Journals \u0026amp; Desk collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBarrister \u0026amp; Bespoke Curated Collection — hand-selected from Gallery Leather of Trenton, Maine, for its craftsmanship and fit within our world. Curated pieces carry their maker's own identity rather than ours; our house collection, designed and branded exclusively for Barrister \u0026amp; Bespoke, is marked separately throughout the shop.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGallery Leather assembles its books at a manufacturing facility in Trenton, Maine. The leather comes from Spain and the book blocks from Korea, and the company says so plainly — it declines to claim \"Made in the USA\" without the qualification the law attaches to imported materials. A maker willing to tell you where each part came from before being asked is a maker whose lifetime guarantee is worth something. That is why the line is here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWarranty.\u003c\/strong\u003e This Product carries Gallery Leather's guarantee on the construction of every product it makes: if at any time you are dissatisfied with the construction, the maker will repair or replace it, without question, free of charge. Barrister \u0026amp; Bespoke's own Thirty-Day Assurance covers the first thirty days after delivery; personalized planners are excluded from the Assurance except for an error in the personalization itself. Full terms, including how to make a claim, are stated in our \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/warranty-policy\"\u003eWarranty Policy\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gallery Leather","offers":[{"title":"Monhegan Black \/ None","offer_id":51679742820667,"sku":"20072-27","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Monhegan Black \/ Initials","offer_id":51679742853435,"sku":"20072-27-INIT","price":123.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Monhegan Black \/ One Line","offer_id":51679742886203,"sku":"20072-27-1L","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Monhegan Black \/ Two Lines","offer_id":51679742918971,"sku":"20072-27-2L","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Monhegan Cocoa \/ None","offer_id":51679742951739,"sku":"20073-27","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Monhegan Cocoa \/ Initials","offer_id":51679742984507,"sku":"20073-27-INIT","price":123.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Monhegan Cocoa \/ One Line","offer_id":51679743017275,"sku":"20073-27-1L","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Monhegan Cocoa \/ Two Lines","offer_id":51679743050043,"sku":"20073-27-2L","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Monhegan Saddle \/ None","offer_id":51679743082811,"sku":"20074-27","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Monhegan Saddle \/ Initials","offer_id":51679743115579,"sku":"20074-27-INIT","price":123.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Monhegan Saddle \/ One Line","offer_id":51679743148347,"sku":"20074-27-1L","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Monhegan Saddle \/ Two Lines","offer_id":51679743181115,"sku":"20074-27-2L","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Monhegan Emerald \/ None","offer_id":51679743213883,"sku":"20355-27","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Monhegan Emerald \/ Initials","offer_id":51679743246651,"sku":"20355-27-INIT","price":123.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Monhegan Emerald \/ One Line","offer_id":51679743279419,"sku":"20355-27-1L","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Monhegan Emerald \/ Two Lines","offer_id":51679743312187,"sku":"20355-27-2L","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tremont Atlantic \/ None","offer_id":51679743344955,"sku":"20075-27","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tremont Atlantic \/ Initials","offer_id":51679743377723,"sku":"20075-27-INIT","price":123.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tremont Atlantic \/ One Line","offer_id":51679743410491,"sku":"20075-27-1L","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tremont Atlantic \/ Two Lines","offer_id":51679743443259,"sku":"20075-27-2L","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tremont Garnet \/ None","offer_id":51679743476027,"sku":"20076-27","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tremont Garnet \/ Initials","offer_id":51679743508795,"sku":"20076-27-INIT","price":123.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tremont Garnet \/ One Line","offer_id":51679743541563,"sku":"20076-27-1L","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tremont Garnet \/ Two Lines","offer_id":51679743574331,"sku":"20076-27-2L","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0963\/8153\/4523\/files\/professional-monhegan-black-cover.jpg?v=1790523640"},{"product_id":"large-monthly-leather-planner-2027","title":"Large Monthly Leather Planner 2027","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Large Monthly Leather Planner\u003c\/strong\u003e is Gallery Leather's month-at-a-glance book in full-grain leather — two facing pages to the month, eighteen months from July 2026 through December 2027, at the 9.75 by 7.5 inch size that sits open on a desk beside a file. It is the planner for a calendar made of dates rather than hours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFull-grain leather cover in six colors — Monhegan Black, Cocoa, Saddle, Emerald; Tremont Atlantic, Garnet\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLeather from the Valencia region of Spain; every cover varies with the hide\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTwo pages per month · July 2026 – December 2027 (18 months)\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e96 pages · 9.75 × 7.5 in · soft cover\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBook-bound — sewn signatures; pages do not detach\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eIvory pages with gold-gilded edges\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eIvory ribbon bookmark · notes and reference pages · full-color maps\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAssembled in Trenton, Maine; book block made in Korea\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eShips direct from the maker's bindery, in a gift box\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePersonalization available — initials or up to two lines, foil-stamped lower right by the maker\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eGuaranteed for life by the maker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSome practices are run in hours and some are run in dates. A closing is a date. A filing deadline is a date. A partnership vote, a bar exam, a trial setting eight months out — dates. For a calendar built that way the weekly book is more machinery than the job needs, and the monthly grid is the better instrument: thirty days across a spread, every deadline in the same field of view as the one that comes before it and the one that comes after. You do not schedule a 9:30 in this book. You see that the brief is due the Tuesday after the closing, in time to do something about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEighteen months is the right length for the format. The book opens in July 2026 and runs through December 2027, so it goes into service the day it arrives and carries the whole of next year with room behind it. At 96 pages it is thin enough to live under a legal pad, and the ivory pages are gilded at the edges — gold against the leather, visible the moment the book is closed, a finishing step that has nothing to do with how the paper takes ink and everything to do with a bindery that does not cut corners where no one is required to look.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe cover is full-grain leather — Monhegan, a soft, slightly textured finish that shows the variation of the hide, or Tremont, a goat-grain finish that is clearly visible and consistent from cover to cover. Six colors, because this book ships from the maker rather than from our shelf. Black is the one that goes unremarked in any room. Cocoa and Saddle are the browns. Emerald, Atlantic and Garnet are for the desk where the planner is allowed to be noticed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuilt for the month, not the week. If your days are cut in appointments — depositions, hearings, calls at set times — see the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/professional-leather-planner-2027\"\u003eProfessional Leather Planner\u003c\/a\u003e, which rules each weekday in half-hours and gives the week two pages. If you want a book of dates that travels in a jacket pocket rather than sitting on a desk, see the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/pocket-weekly-leather-planner-2027\"\u003ePocket Weekly Leather Planner\u003c\/a\u003e. For the undated book that keeps the notes, see the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/large-leather-journal-ruled\"\u003eLarge Leather Journal\u003c\/a\u003e, the same size as this one. For the case for running a printed planner alongside the phone at all, read \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/field-guide\/paper-or-screen\"\u003ePaper, or Screen?\u003c\/a\u003e — Field Guide No. 10.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eQuestions we get\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDo lawyers still use paper planners?\u003c\/strong\u003e Most do. In Attorney at Work's 2024 survey of practicing lawyers, 86 percent chose pen and paper over a tablet, and managing the schedule was among the four most common things they used it for. The phone is better at reminding you and sharing the calendar; a printed month is better at showing thirty days of deadlines in one field of view, with nothing collapsed behind a \"+3 more.\" The month grid is the half of the pair the screen does worst. Field Guide No. 10, \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/field-guide\/paper-or-screen\"\u003ePaper, or Screen?\u003c\/a\u003e, makes the case for running both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMonthly or weekly — which one?\u003c\/strong\u003e Ask how your day is cut. If it is cut in appointments at fixed times, the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/professional-leather-planner-2027\"\u003eProfessional\u003c\/a\u003e with its half-hour lines is the one. If the calendar is a handful of hard dates a month and the hours live in your phone or your assistant's, this is the better book and the lighter one. Choose based on how many things happen at a fixed time in an ordinary week, not on which layout looks tidier, and you'll rarely choose wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat is the date range, exactly?\u003c\/strong\u003e July 2026 through December 2027 — eighteen months, two pages each. 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Type is set in all capitals or upper-and-lower, and the maker sizes the lettering to the space, so shorter is better. Personalized planners are made to your order and cannot be returned or exchanged unless the personalization error is the maker's. Personalization adds time, because the book is stamped after you order it rather than pulled off a shelf. Figure eight business days at the bindery, ten at the outside; an unpersonalized planner leaves in a few. The wait is the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDoes it lie flat when open?\u003c\/strong\u003e The maker builds the interior on a lay-flat design with sewn signatures, and at this size and page count most copies sit open on a desk from the first use. If yours does not, open it fully and bend the cover back a few times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWill mine look like the photograph?\u003c\/strong\u003e Close, but not identical. Monhegan and Tremont are full-grain finishes that show the natural variation of the hide, so the grain and the way it takes the light differ from cover to cover. The photograph is one book, not a template.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhere is it made?\u003c\/strong\u003e Assembled at Gallery Leather's facility in Trenton, Maine. The leather comes from the Valencia region of Spain and the book block from a supplier in Korea. Gallery Leather does not claim \"Made in the USA\" without the qualification the law requires of it, and neither do we.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat does the guarantee cover?\u003c\/strong\u003e Construction, at any time. In Gallery Leather's own words, if for any reason you are dissatisfied with the construction of one of its products, it will repair or replace it, without question, free of charge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSee the rest of our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/journals-desk\"\u003ejournals, planners and desk pieces for lawyers\u003c\/a\u003e in the Journals \u0026amp; Desk collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBarrister \u0026amp; Bespoke Curated Collection — hand-selected from Gallery Leather of Trenton, Maine, for its craftsmanship and fit within our world. Curated pieces carry their maker's own identity rather than ours; our house collection, designed and branded exclusively for Barrister \u0026amp; Bespoke, is marked separately throughout the shop.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGallery Leather assembles its books at a manufacturing facility in Trenton, Maine. The leather comes from Spain and the book blocks from Korea, and the company says so plainly — it declines to claim \"Made in the USA\" without the qualification the law attaches to imported materials. A maker willing to tell you where each part came from before being asked is a maker whose lifetime guarantee is worth something. That is why the line is here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWarranty.\u003c\/strong\u003e This Product carries Gallery Leather's guarantee on the construction of every product it makes: if at any time you are dissatisfied with the construction, the maker will repair or replace it, without question, free of charge. Barrister \u0026amp; Bespoke's own Thirty-Day Assurance covers the first thirty days after delivery; personalized planners are excluded from the Assurance except for an error in the personalization itself. 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Tremont Atlantic, Garnet\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLeather from the Valencia region of Spain; every cover varies with the hide\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWeekly section January–December 2027 — two pages per week\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMonths-at-a-glance section July 2026 – June 2028\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e208 pages · 6 × 3.25 in · soft cover\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBook-bound — sewn signatures; pages do not detach\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eIvory pages with gold-gilded edges\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eIvory ribbon bookmark · notes and reference pages · full-color maps\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAssembled in Trenton, Maine; book block made in Korea\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eShips direct from the maker's bindery, in a gift box\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePersonalization available — initials or up to two lines, foil-stamped lower right by the maker\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eGuaranteed for life by the maker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe date that matters most is usually set standing up. The judge asks when the parties can return; opposing counsel names a week; you need to know, now, whether you are free — and the phone is either in the bag, in the car, or not allowed in the building. This is the book for that. Two pages to the week, a monthly section behind it that runs two full years, and a cover thin enough that you forget it is in the pocket until you need it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the pocket version of a bigger book, not a lesser one. Sewn signatures, ivory paper gilded at the edges, a ribbon, notes pages and the reference section at the back — the same construction as the desk-sized planners, cut to a page that fits a shirt pocket. The trade is real and worth stating: the day is a few lines rather than a column of half-hours, so it holds the fact of an appointment better than the shape of a whole day. If you need the hours on paper, see the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/professional-leather-planner-2027\"\u003eProfessional\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe cover is full-grain leather — Monhegan, a soft, slightly textured finish that shows the variation of the hide, or Tremont, a goat-grain finish that is clearly visible and consistent from cover to cover. Six colors, because this book ships from the maker rather than from our shelf. Black disappears into a suit. The others do not, which is sometimes the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne size. Gallery Leather makes this book in a regular and a wide format, and only the regular is made in full-grain leather. We carry the regular. If you want the wider page, the maker offers it in bonded leather on its own site; we carry Gallery Leather in full-grain only.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuilt to carry, not to sit. For the same week-at-a-glance layout with a full column of timed half-hours for every weekday, at desk size, see the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/professional-leather-planner-2027\"\u003eProfessional Leather Planner\u003c\/a\u003e. For a book of dates rather than hours, see the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/large-monthly-leather-planner-2027\"\u003eLarge Monthly Leather Planner\u003c\/a\u003e. For the undated notebook that travels in the same pocket, see the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/desk-leather-journal-ruled\"\u003eDesk Leather Journal\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/field-guide\/paper-or-screen\"\u003ePaper, or Screen?\u003c\/a\u003e — Field Guide No. 10 — argues what the book does that the phone cannot, and the reverse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eQuestions we get\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy carry a paper planner when the calendar is on my phone?\u003c\/strong\u003e Because the phone is not always in your hand. It is in the bag, in the car, or surrendered at the courthouse door — and the date still gets set standing in the corridor. The phone reminds and shares; the book is there, and it leaves the firm with you. Run both. Field Guide No. 10, \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/field-guide\/paper-or-screen\"\u003ePaper, or Screen?\u003c\/a\u003e, sets out which does what.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePocket or Professional?\u003c\/strong\u003e Where will the book be when the date is set? If the answer is a desk, get the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/professional-leather-planner-2027\"\u003eProfessional\u003c\/a\u003e and its half-hour lines. If the answer is a courthouse corridor, a client's conference room, or anywhere the phone is put away, get this one. Choose based on where you are standing when someone asks \"when can you do it,\" not on the size of the page, and you'll rarely choose wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat are the date ranges, exactly?\u003c\/strong\u003e The weekly section runs January through December 2027. The months-at-a-glance section runs July 2026 through June 2028, so a date set well past December has a page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs there a wider version?\u003c\/strong\u003e The maker makes one, at 6 by 4.25 inches, but only in bonded leather, and we carry Gallery Leather in full-grain only. This is the regular size, 6 by 3.25, and it is the one that fits a shirt pocket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow does it ship?\u003c\/strong\u003e Directly from Gallery Leather's bindery in Trenton, Maine, in a gift box, under our name — nothing in the box carries anyone else's pricing or paperwork. That is how we can offer six colors instead of one. Unpersonalized planners typically leave the bindery within a few business days; personalized ones usually within eight, and ten at the outside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow does personalization work?\u003c\/strong\u003e Choose it when you order — initials, one line, or two — and enter the text on this page. The maker foil-stamps it in gold in the lower right corner of the cover; on the full-grain leathers we carry, gold is the only foil offered. Type is set in all capitals or upper-and-lower, and on a cover this size the maker sizes the lettering to the space, so shorter is better. Personalized planners are made to your order and cannot be returned or exchanged unless the personalization error is the maker's. Personalization adds time, because the book is stamped after you order it rather than pulled off a shelf. Figure eight business days at the bindery, ten at the outside; an unpersonalized planner leaves in a few. The wait is the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWill mine look like the photograph?\u003c\/strong\u003e Close, but not identical. Monhegan and Tremont are full-grain finishes that show the natural variation of the hide, so the grain and the way it takes the light differ from cover to cover. The photograph is one book, not a template.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhere is it made?\u003c\/strong\u003e Assembled at Gallery Leather's facility in Trenton, Maine. The leather comes from the Valencia region of Spain and the book block from a supplier in Korea. Gallery Leather does not claim \"Made in the USA\" without the qualification the law requires of it, and neither do we.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat does the guarantee cover?\u003c\/strong\u003e Construction, at any time. In Gallery Leather's own words, if for any reason you are dissatisfied with the construction of one of its products, it will repair or replace it, without question, free of charge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSee the rest of our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/journals-desk\"\u003ejournals, planners and desk pieces for lawyers\u003c\/a\u003e in the Journals \u0026amp; Desk collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBarrister \u0026amp; Bespoke Curated Collection — hand-selected from Gallery Leather of Trenton, Maine, for its craftsmanship and fit within our world. Curated pieces carry their maker's own identity rather than ours; our house collection, designed and branded exclusively for Barrister \u0026amp; Bespoke, is marked separately throughout the shop.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGallery Leather assembles its books at a manufacturing facility in Trenton, Maine. 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