Journals & Desk
A lawyer's desk is a working surface first. What sits on it should survive a career of being written on, leaned on, and carried to the courthouse and back — which is why this collection is small, and why everything in it is leather.
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The journals are Gallery Leather's, bound in Trenton, Maine: the Desk Leather Journal for the bag and the courthouse, the Large Leather Journal for the notes a practice has to keep. Both are ruled, sewn to lie flat, and gilt-edged, and both carry the maker's lifetime guarantee. The desk pad is Korchmar's Carter — full-grain American leather over a non-skid back, the surface a fountain pen was always meant to meet. We carry the desk pad and the journals as a Curated Collection; the makers' names are the argument, and we say so on each page.
What is not here yet is deliberate. Pen rests, blotters and letter trays will follow when we find the ones worth carrying; we do not stock to fill a shelf. For the journals on their own, see Leather Journals; for the pens that write in these, see Writing Instruments; for the padfolio that carries a legal pad into a deposition, see Portfolios & Padfolios.
Whether a bound book still earns its place beside a phone calendar is the question underneath this whole collection, and we've argued it in full: Paper Planner or Calendar App: What Each Does That the Other Can't.
Buy the notebook you will actually write in, not the one that photographs best, and you'll rarely choose wrong.
