"Adam Smith, Esq." has been invited to join American Lawyer Media's "Legal Blog Network," and I have accepted.  The other half-dozen-plus members of the network are all people I know personally or through email and the quality of their blogs is of the highest order; I consider myself in distinguished company.

That said, I made this decision after a fair amount of deliberation and after seeking counsel and advice from fellow members of the network, whose general consensus was that the benefit of increased visibility in cyberspace at large outweighed the aesthetic objectionability of that honking big garish ad to your right.  (Sorry, ALM, but when you're dealing with bloggers we're going to call a spade a spade—and if you ever animate the ad, all bets are off.)

If any readers feel strongly about this change one way or the other, please let me know.