Melissa Lafsky

Melissa Lafsky Wall (born 1979) is an American writer who is known as the author of the Opinionistas blog, which formerly focused on the dehumanizing aspects of law firms. 2Education and legal career Lafsky Wall 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 very popular and was 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. 2Writing & Editorial career Lafsky Wall has written for publications including The New York Times, The New York Post, Salon, Wired, The New York Observer, Gawker and The Christian Science Monitor. She spent a year as a contributor and then associate editor at The Huffington Post, where she wrote reported pieces, editorials and media commentary. In May 2007, she was hired as editor of the Freakonomics blog, which features content by the authors of the internationally best-selling book. Freakonomics.com then became part of The New York Times Online, and is now featured in the Opinion Sectio