Nathan Carlile of the Legal Times has this lengthy and occasionally quite funny profile of David Lat, who writes the Above the Law blog we previously discussed here.

Reflecting upon Lat's highly unusual journey that has led to him to a career as a legal blogger, the article concludes by comforting us that

if this doesn’t last — and if, eventually, Lat’s story becomes just the familiar cautionary tale about a federal prosecutor who poses as a woman to post gossip on the Internet only to be exposed by a New Yorker writer and sign a lucrative blogging deal — he says things will still be OK.