Like any other great writer, Anton Chekhov dealt with some of the most pressing and poignant themes of human existence from which the lawyer, for all his learning and training, is not immune—love, loss, pain, joy, suffering, victory, sorrow, and death. We know that from Chekhov’s humble beginnings on the Sea of Azov, this son of a grocer from Taganrog went on to become a renowned story teller and compassionate medical doctor who died at forty-four and left behind some 240 stories, which he approved for his Collected Works, as well as some of the most influential plays ever to hit the world stage. More on his extraordinarily short but fruitful life later. But what precisely does Dr. Chekhov say to the lawyer?