1. The Wife “quit” Toastmasters last week. I’m only four speeches towards getting the basic certification, and I think I’d like to finish it, if only to have actually finished it rather than stopping going because The Wife did. She… Continue Reading
A family sued the Westboro Baptist Church for disrupting the funeral of his son, a U.S. Marine killed in Iraq, and won a significant verdict. I have a very hard time feeling bad for the defendants. The excerable Fred Phelps… Continue Reading
…In that it consists of long stretches of boredom, randomly interspersed with very brief bursts of absolute terror. The momentary mistaken belief that one has missed a deadline is one of those bursts of terror. Similarly, the realization that no,… Continue Reading
People sometimes ask me, can an attorney be disbarred for filing a frivolous lawsuit? No, it takes misconduct more egregious than that. A lot more egregious than that. Apparently, extorting three-way sex with a client and his girlfriend, comingling funds,… Continue Reading
My heart goes out to the journalist who died, but I have to agree with the Italian court here — it has no jurisdiction to try a U.S. soldier for a killing in Baghdad. The journalist was shot by the… Continue Reading
A documentary about my life over yesterday and today will have covered the six major activities that consume the bulk of my existence: 1. Working on my new house. Yesterday The Wife and I painted kitchen cabinet doors and ceiling… Continue Reading
There once was a lawyer named TL,Whose mind, while at sleep, would not quell. He awoke in the dead of night, About his case strategies to write,And then decided to blog about it as well.
When I feel like I need a “pep talk” to inspire me to do good work, I like to watch my favorite lawyer movie: A Few Good Men. The climactic scene, in which Tom Cruise cross-examines Jack Nicholson and makes… Continue Reading
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act passed out of a critical committee vote today, and the law will soon be voted on by the full House of Representatives. The critical language, supplementing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, is: It shall be… Continue Reading
Yesterday, I sat in the morning session of traffic court. Up here, they do arraignments in the morning and trials in the afternoon. The arraignment calendar is, predictably, very long. There are also a lot of preliminary matters that the… Continue Reading