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!