Life at 160 is men’s lifestyle blog with a legal slant. We feature 15-20 posts every week, Monday – Friday.

Life at 160

In March 2009, I launched a blog in an attempt to track a story about a new love interest. I quickly fell behind, but began keeping a detailed journal so that I could write it up later. The story, which is still being updated, is found under “The Saga” above. Please see its front page for more information.

Other than that, I’m a mostly standard, though I often pretend to be unique, second year associate at a large law firm in Dallas, TX. The website receives its name from my $160k first year salary.

Laid-Off Larry

Larry hates the name Larry. In fact, he had vehemently protected himself from being referred to as “Larry” for the first 27 years of his life. Now, laid-off and searching for a job in the worst legal market in recent memory, he’s accepted that Larry is a perfectly acceptable nickname for someone named Lawrence. He has agreed to write for the blog, in hopes that his share of the revenue will eventually cover the costs associated with the usage of the internet cafe down the street from the homeless shelter. He’s here to prevent me from ruining the blog with my incessant pretentiousness.

Bayan

Of all the people who write for (and comment on) this site, Bayan Rabbani is the only one who has the testicular fortitude to go by his real name. He enjoys whistling, drinking glass-bottled coke, reading, throwing hadoukens at his enemies, being an alpha male, and lives the Mark Twain quote: “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” He also enjoys watching The University of Oklahoma suck at football whilst Texas flourishes. It should be further noted that Bayan was a potential Gerber baby and would most definitely be rich as hell now had his parents put him into modeling or acting back then. Unfortunately, with his good looks long gone, he has been reduced to getting a “real job”. In the mean time, he will be whining writing here.

Rocket Van Buuren

Rocket is currently a student at a large school in Texas. He digs politics, music and philosophy and spends his time ruining relationships with women, partying, and studying. Most of his posts will probably be about one or more of these subjects. He travels a lot for reasons he doesn’t want to disclose to you fucks, and spends a third of his nights sleeping in hotels across the county. He posts shit he finds funny, and various personal stories he finds worth sharing. He’s written for a couple of other outlets in his life, and finds that people alternately find his writing hysterical, insightful, or detestable. Despite his arrogance, he, like the rest of us, legitimately hopes to entertain you idiots and always welcomes your comments or suggestions. Our crappy design cuts his name at off “Rocket Van” – which I find hilarious.

The Girl

A third-year associate at one of the most prestigious law firms in the country (V10). She’s provides a female perspective on the legal world and, more importantly, prevents me from ruining the blog with my incessant, though mostly accidental, sexism.

Johnathan Pendle

Law school dropout turned professional poker player, Johnathan posts occasional stories from life in Vegas and hosts the monthly Life at 160 poker tournament at Full Tilt Poker. Jonathan felt “called out” by Bayan’s assertion that nobody else uses their real name on this website, so now he’s blogging under his real name as well.

Franklin Phillips

I was positively shitfaced when I told this guy he could write for the site, I have no information on him, and he has stopped responding to his emails – but I am nothing if not a man of my word. If he ever shows up, he has a job at this site.