You may have realized by now that the announcement of my new job with the Vancouver Canucks was a fiendishly clever April Fools joke. Some of you may have received my blog later than noon yesterday, which is technically cheating, but I had a problem with my website.

First off, I would like to thank many (surprisingly many) of you for your heartfelt congratulations – it’s quite a compliment that you actually thought the Canucks would hire me. Maybe you forgot all the nasty things I’ve been writing about the legal profession lately. Don’t feel too badly if you were fooled; many of my law school classmates, who should know that I’m not smart enough to be the General Counsel of anything, called to say they always knew I could do it and that writing thing was never going to amount to anything anyway.

The person most disappointed to learn that this was a joke was my mother, who thought her wayward son had finally gotten a real job.

My favourite response came from my friend Carlo, who said, and I quote, “You are NOT giving up on your dream…….so this must be an April fools joke…..” I didn’t think Carlo knew me that well, but he was right. I am not quitting until my book is finished and I’ve strong-armed every one of you into buying it. And after all Carol has been through, she would never let me give up at this stage anyway. Onward!