Rich Bloch

Both things are true. Bloch likes to keep the two things separate. He does not do magic tricks for 300-pound linemen and their agents. Nor does he bill himself as a lawyer-magician when he’s performing his show “Best Kept Secrets,” where story-telling, humor and performance blend with Bloch’s finely honed magical abilities and, for want of a better phrase, bag of tricks, which includes card tricks, the famous Harry Anderson’s Last Monte, the world’s fastest tricks, and the sometimes the assistance of his wife Susan, who is actually a Georgetown University law professor. “To me, they’re two different worlds, they really are,” Bloch says. “Both of the things I love to do — being an attorney, practicing the kind of law I do, and being a magician — have enormous rewards, but you can also get frustrated. When that happens, you just pass through a door and go into the other world. “I simply tell people that 80 percent of my professional life is being an attorney, and 80 percent is being a magician.” Now that’s magic.