Like many of the folks on this board, I fly round-trip each week. About half the time I end up having a conversation with my person seated next to me. When I think about it, I've learned a ton from them. Usually the conversations drift into business talk and so I've heard business strategies from everything from insecticide sprinkler systems to a health services company that specializes in the terminally ill. If I combined all this knowledge, it would have to equate to at least a year at a decent MBA program.

I'm really thinking about publishing something or better yet ghostwriting it (since I'm not much a writer). I guess I would have to write-up consent forms which would put a damper on the depth of the conversations, but I think it would be total dynamite on the press.

Any thoughts? Has this been done before?

I was thinking of something similar earlier this evening... while listening to a lawyer on a job interview in the PC at EWR (terminal A). I asked my daughter if she'd like to start writing everything down... a few people snickered.
Speaking of lawyers on cell phones... if you can't help but overhear "privileged" communications can you tell someone? I once overheard a lawyer with a client... guilt was established, names were spoken, etc. (This was on a bus, btw.)

IAMNAL, but my understanding is that if the attorney does not make reasonable efforts to protect the "material" then it loses privilege. The problem is that the other side would have to demonstrate this by finding people like you who shared the bus ride and get them in to testify and even then it gets difficult to get some of the stuff in as evidence.

S.