Gifts for Lawyers
Most gifts for lawyers are jokes about lawyers. A mug, a gavel paperweight, a framed maxim. They are opened, thanked for, and put in a drawer. The gifts that stay out are the ones that get used on Monday: the briefcase that carries the file to court, the pen that signs the engagement letter, the planner that holds the calendar, the desk pad the deposition transcript lands on.
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Everything here was chosen by a lawyer who practiced for twenty-six years and knows which objects earn their place on the desk and which do not. Nothing is engraved with a joke. Nothing announces itself. Each piece does its job, and keeps doing it.
For the law school graduate and the new bar passer, a fountain pen or a portfolio marks the start of the work. For the new partner, a briefcase worth the title. For the judge taking the bench or the lawyer retiring from it, something for the desk that will outlast the occasion. If the choice is hard, start with the pen: every lawyer signs something every day. If you are buying for someone whose practice you do not know well, our gift guide walks through it by occasion.
