In my professional life, I'm a lawyer and a writer. 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 many 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 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 readable and cheaper too).
My law firm is The Schaeffer Law Office, P.C. Further biographical information about my work as a lawyer is here.
My non-professional interests include flying airplanes, hiking in the mountains, and making music. One of my favorite pastimes is backpacking. I've done several very long backpacking trips, including the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail, all of them documented at my YouTube channel "Evan's Backpacking Videos." My long video about my Appalachian Trail thru-hike currently has almost 1.5 million views--thanks to anyone who's taken the time to watch!
As for my favorite YouTube videos, those are the ones that include my family -- my wife Andrea, my sister Sarah, my four grown children. For fear of embarrassing them, I won't link to these videos -- but they do exist!