{"id":26,"date":"2019-10-27T23:54:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T23:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2023-09-10T13:29:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T20:29:55","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/?page_id=26","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/LoreleiLaird-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\" width=\"275\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/LoreleiLaird-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/LoreleiLaird-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/LoreleiLaird-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/LoreleiLaird.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve covered the law since 2002&#8211;first at Los Angeles legal newspapers, then as a freelancer, then at the ABA Journal and now as a freelancer again. I&#8217;ve covered almost everything legal, but I have special depth of experience in criminal justice, immigration, civil rights, intellectual property (I took Harvard&#8217;s free online copyrights class, CopyX) and Indian law. I enjoy writing about the law because it very often has compelling human stories behind it. It&#8217;s also nice to be in a field where original documents are often part of the public record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve also tackled my share of nonlegal topics, but they still tend toward the complex and intellectual: Renewable energy, health and wellness, academic writing. If you&#8217;re looking for someone who can take a difficult-to-read document and make it understandable, I can help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a Southern California native, live in the Los Angeles area and do not write screenplays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve covered the law since 2002&#8211;first at Los Angeles legal newspapers, then as a freelancer, then at the ABA Journal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordofthelaird.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}