We celebrate this morning with a tip of our coffee mug and a posting at dagosan’s haiku diary<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n To the delight of BabyB<\/em>‘s fans, the TimesOnline<\/em> site\u00a0includes prequel postings, filling in\u00a0the first year of\u00a0pupillage.\u00a0 Here, in brief, is The Story So Far<\/em>:<\/p>\n BabyBarista<\/em> has been a pupil<\/span><\/a> barrister fighting<\/span><\/a> to get a place at a London chambers since October last year. Early on, he made a faustian pact<\/span><\/a> with The Boss<\/span><\/a> to help cover up his negligence<\/span><\/a> in return for preferment. Meanwhile, he has been committing various acts of subterfuge against his fellow pupils. First, he encouraged Worrier<\/span><\/a> to make a career-limiting sex discrimination complaint<\/span><\/a>. Then he set up BusyBody<\/span><\/a> by making it appear<\/span><\/a> as if she put a recording of the head of chambers\u2019 comments<\/span><\/a> on YouTube. He is currently testing the faithfulness of TopFirst<\/span><\/a> to his fiancee using HoneyTrap<\/span><\/a>. Since April, another pupil, ThirdSix<\/span><\/a> has arrived and UpTights<\/span><\/a> has become his pupilmistress. OldRuin<\/span><\/a> looks on unmoved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n BabyBarista<\/em>‘s original SideBar stated “publishers make me an offer I can’t refuse.”\u00a0If we ever needed evidence that a weblog fueled by talent and chutzpah can quickly garner attention within and beyond the legal community, BabyBarista<\/em>‘s anonymous* author\u00a0has surely made the point.\u00a0 Please let his new\u00a0media Boss\u00a0know\u00a0how much you\u00a0appreciate the tales of this\u00a0precociously-lawyerly baby barrister, as he “serves coffee to the rich and powerful,” by visiting often and leaving Comments<\/em>.\u00a0 Congratulations to BabyB, whoever you are!<\/p>\n *<\/span>\/ Anonymous No More<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a0 After biting our tongues to keep this juicy secret for the past couple of years, the f\/k\/a<\/em> Gang is pleased to announce that, on March 31, 2009, TimesOnline<\/em> unmasked BabyBarista<\/a> — he is our friend Tim Kevan<\/a>, proprietor of The Barrister Blog<\/em><\/a>, and co-author of “Why Lawyers Should Surf<\/em><\/a>” [see our prior post<\/a>.] The revelation was made for the most lawyerly of reasons: to help make Tim rich and famous, as he anticipates the publication of the humorous novel “BabyBarista and the Art of War<\/em><\/a>” (Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 3 Aug 2009).<\/p>\n update<\/em><\/strong> (September 7, 2009):\u00a0 We’re in blawg-retirement status, so Walter Olson at Overlawyered<\/em>.com<\/a> was kind enough to let me borrow his mega-forum today to post “BabyBarista serves up a cool, dark brew-haha<\/a>“–\u00a0 a book review of “BabyBarista and the Art of War<\/em><\/a>“.<\/p>\n midway through the argument![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/files\/2007\/04\/BabyBLogo.jpg\")
<\/a> My surfer-blawg buddy Tim Kevan<\/a> moves his BabyBarista<\/em> weblog to The Guardian<\/a><\/em>‘s blossoming Law Section<\/a> today. Read about <\/a>the move here<\/a>. The Guardian is one smart newspaper\/website.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/files\/2007\/04\/BornFreeTrainerCup-300x300.jpg\" "\\"BornFreeTrainerCup\\"")
<\/a> special post-retirement follow-up<\/strong><\/em> (May 26, 2010; 11 PM): Rather than having BabyB hidden behind the looming new paywall of The Times Online<\/em>, Tim Kevan has withdraw his BabyBarista weblog from The Times<\/em> and relaunched it at\u00a0 http:\/\/www.babybarista.com\/<\/a>.\u00a0 See Tim’s press release<\/a> (May 27, 2010) at his original Barrister Blog<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Although he made the decision to withdraw with regret, and remains “extremely grateful to The Times<\/em> for hosting the blog<\/em>“, Tim explained that “ I didn\u2019t start this blog for it to be the exclusive preserve of a limited few subscribers.<\/em>” The f\/k\/a<\/em> Gang rouses ourselves from our archival slumbers to salute their declaration of independence, and to wish BabyBarista and Tim Kevan all the best at the “free-standing” website.\u00a0 We also look forward to the paperback version of BabyB’s first novel “The Art of Wa<\/em>r<\/a>,” which will be published this summer, under the new title Law and Disorder<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/em>, as well as the sequel expected in 2011.<\/p>\n BabyBarista<\/em> hasn’t yet secured a position in Chambers, but the fictional pupil barrister has just landed in the big leagues of the UK legal scene, only two months<\/em> after launching his blogspot diary<\/a> of impish machinations and\u00a0well-mentored cynicism. This mischievous\u00a0“fictional account of a pupil barrister undergoing the trials of pupillage at the English Bar”\u00a0caused such a stir around the Inns of Court, that the\u00a0Baby Barister<\/em> weblog<\/a> is now hosted by the London <\/em>TimesOnLine<\/em><\/a>, in its Law Reports section (rss<\/a> link; live<\/a> as of April 9, 2007).<\/p>\n![\"cover](\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/files\/2007\/04\/babybarista-and-the-art-of-war-cover2.jpg\")
<\/a> Clearly, turning a weblog into both a paying column and a block-buster novel is every blawger’s wet dream.\u00a0 And, as you can see from Tim’s post at The Barrister Blog<\/em>, it’s every surfing puppy’s wet dream, too<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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