I’m posting every work day in 2011! I’ve decided I want to blog more. There’s nothing like a schedule and a deadline to produce discipline and increase practice, and once a day feels about what I need. Rather than just thinking about doing it, I’m starting right now. I will be posting on this blog […]
Archives for December 2010
How to use reason and not kill a conversation
December 31, 2010 by
How often have you been in conversation when someone makes an argument and provides absolutely no evidence or rationale for it? They take the argument as so self-evident that there really is nothing you can do to add to the conversation. No evidence has been provided, the facts–such as they are–have been disregarded, dismissed, ignored, […]
Law Practice Tip #4: read “The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law”
December 29, 2010 by
Whether you’re a newly minted lawyer or a third year associate, a solo practitioner or one of hundreds in a national firm, you should regularly review of the basics of practicing law. Research, writing, presentation, argument, and knowledge of the law are just tools of our trade, and keeping them sharp is as important to our practice […]
Surprised by quality–and ravioli and curry–at Cafe Med
December 21, 2010 by
We were running late. The movie started in just about an hour. And we were indecisive, to boot. “Let’s drive through Sugar House; maybe something will pop up.” “That’s too far from the theater. By the time we get our food, we’ll miss the movie.” “What about Pei Wei? That’s pretty fast.” “Hmmm…I’m not in […]
Law Practice Tip #3: Declining Representation
December 20, 2010 by
If you’re like me, you occasionally get calls from family or friends about legal issues, and not because they want to hire you. Additionally, because you’re a lawyer, you get those occasional legal questions while out and about socially. People making conversation. Or so you think. Until suddenly you get a notice from the court […]
Beat TSA without staying home for the holidays
December 17, 2010 by
Gotta fly this year? Not looking to be electronically stripped by an underpaid, under-trained, and overzealous TSA employee? And not looking to be the next John Tyner, either? Beat the TSA with a new set of underwear that has “passive/aggressive” written all over it. According to Tech Crunch: The brainchild of Stephen Russell, the founder and […]
We are all just pawns: moral ambivalence & criminal offenses in the Clinton Cabinet
December 17, 2010 by
I read a startling story yesterday. Former Joint Chiefs of Staff retired General Hugh Shelton says in his memoir that in 1997 a Clinton cabinet member suggested letting Saddam Hussein shoot down a U2 spy plane to create a ruse to go to war against Iraq. It would provide for international sympathy and justification the Clinton Administration felt it needed […]
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