Happy
Halloween,
dear
reader.
As
if
reaching
your
billable
hours
wasn’t
terrifying
enough,
that
superego
of
yours
still
demands
you
do
something
festive
to
commemorate
the
holiday.
You’re
in
luck
—
we
at
ATL
are
happy
to
scare
up
some
content
for
you.
If
you
were
to
associate
a
creature
with
lawyers,
we’d
definitely
be
some
kind
of
fae:
obsessed
with
contracts,
required
to
follow
the
letter
(but
not
the
spirit
of
the
law),
and
are
really
good
at
exploiting
loopholes.
But
what
if
you
wanted
your
lawyerly
Halloween
to
run
a
little
more…
Gothic?
Look
no
further
than
Albany
Law
for
a
dark
conglomerate
of
property
law
and
artificial
intelligence:
For
those
who
prefer
reading
iambic
pentameter
to
reading
it,
the
script
is
provided
here.
AI
or
not,
the
Poe
inspired
meditation
on
land
contracts
is
about
as
enjoyable
as
talking
about
real
property
gets
without
discovering
a
long
lost
uncle
decided
to
include
you
in
his
will.
The
pool
for
ATL
contests
like
law
revue
are
currently
restricted
to
human
participants,
but
you’ve
got
some
serious
competition
once
AI
starts
submitting!
Happy
Halloween!
A
Tale
of
Property
and
Dread,
ChatGPT
Pens
Story
about
Land
Contracts
(in
the
style
of
Edgar
Allan
Poe)
[Albany
Law]
Chris
Williams
became
a
social
media
manager
and
assistant
editor
for
Above
the
Law
in
June
2021.
Prior
to
joining
the
staff,
he
moonlighted
as
a
minor
Memelord™
in
the
Facebook
group Law
School
Memes
for
Edgy
T14s.
He
endured
Missouri
long
enough
to
graduate
from
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
School
of
Law.
He
is
a
former
boatbuilder
who
cannot
swim, a
published
author
on
critical
race
theory,
philosophy,
and
humor,
and
has
a
love
for
cycling
that
occasionally
annoys
his
peers.
You
can
reach
him
by
email
at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and
by
tweet
at @WritesForRent.