Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here, the Eric Erickson show. I have an important

announcement and milestone documenting the growth of my emotional maturity. The date is June 28,

2022. For the first time in forever, I paid my bar dues on time.

Just want you all to know. I am a member of the Georgia bar, although I am in an active status.

I cannot give you legal advice.

I don't know why I keep my bar license.

I really don't.

I have no intention of going back to practicing law.

But I feel like if the radio show doesn't work out, I mean, one day I could go be some

ambulance chaser, I guess.

I mean, I know how to write demand letters and all that. I just, one day I could go be some ambulance chaser, I guess. I mean, I know how to

write demand letters and all that. I just don't want to. I'm hoping the radio career lasts.

I don't know why I continue to pay these people just for the privilege of being told I can't

practice law and I'm an active lawyer.

It has to do really with the psychology of years ago when I became a blogger and then was on CNN and would fill in for Rush Limbaugh.

My parents still really didn't quite understand what I did for living.

And my mom would say, son, you've always got your law license if this doesn't work out.

And I did work pretty doggone hard.

I graduated a law school with honors, passed the bar exam the first round, got a job with a good law firm that didn't pay much, but it was good law firm.

I feel like I should keep my law license, even though if don't practice law. But I don't know. Maybe one day I should

give it. You know, the real reason that I keep the law license is because there's this magazine

and it comes out every quarter and it's the Georgia Bar Journal. And all of my friends, myself

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