- Evan Schaeffer

ABOUT EVAN SCHAEFFER

I tell people I'm a writer first, even those who know me mostly as a lawyer, musician, artist, YouTube vlogger, or backpacker.

My fiction and satire have been published in Artful Dodge, Runner's World, the Chicago Tribune, the Cincinnati Post, Minnesota Bench & Bar, the Allentown Morning Call, and other publications. I've also published numerous commentary essays and Op-Eds in newspapers like the Chicago Tribune, the Houston Chronicle, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. My two books are Deposition Checklists and Strategies (extremely dry and very expensive) and How to Feed a Lawyer (and Other Irreverent Observations from the Legal Underground) (much more fun and cheaper too).

As a backpacker, I'm known principally for my unusual backpacking style--most recently, with a tarp instead of a tent or hammock, without a sleeping pad, without trekking poles, without eating (many) sugars or carbs, and using sandals rather than boots or trail runners. In 2018, I thru-hiked the entire 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail this way and posted videos about my hike at my YouTube channel "Evan's Backpacking Videos." My long-form documentary about my hike, "The Appalachian Trail: From End to End," has more than 250,000 views. Now I comment on the backpacking sub-culture at my Instagram account, @Backpacker_Comics.

Some of my publications can be found here:

Fiction, Satire and Commentary

Law-related Publications

My law firm is The Schaeffer Law Office, P.C.; further biographical information about my work as a lawyer is here; press coverage about my work as a lawyer is here; press coverage about my work as a writer is here.

Finally, I've spent years writing the The Trial Practice Tips Blog, which together with Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground (a/k/a Beyond the Underground) received notice in many print publications, including the New York Times and The Economist.