Melissa Lafsky

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Melissa Lafsky is an American writer who is known as the author of the Opinionistas blog, which formerly focused on the dehumanizing aspects of law firms.

1 Education and Legal Career
2 Writing career
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Education and Legal Career

Lafsky graduated from National Cathedral School in Washington D.C., and then Dartmouth College in 2000. She then received her J.D. from The University of Virginia School of Law. She began writing Opinionistas anonymously while working as a junior associate at a law firm in New York City. After her blog was discovered by Gawker in April 2005, it became hugely popular and was eventually profiled in the New York Times. She then resigned her law firm position in December 2005 to pursue a career in writing, and revealed her identity to the New York Observer in January 2006.

[edit] Writing career

Lafsky has written for publications including The New York Times, The New York Post, Salon, Wired, and Radar. She spent a year as a contributor and then associate editor at The Huffington Post, where she wrote reported pieces, editorials and media commentary for Eat The Press. In May of 2007, her hiring as full-time editor of the Freakonomics website was annonced, which features content by the authors of the internationally best-selling book.^[1] Freakonomics.com then became part of The New York Times Online, and is now featured in the Opinion Section. In March 2008 she left Freakonomics to work on the web site of Discover magazine.^[2] As of March 2008, she still writes Opinionistas, which is now syndicated on Yahoo and other sites.