Trials can be fun for trial lawyers when they get there, however as Dan Fogelberg would say, “But the traveling was hell!” The last piece, the prep time before packing up for the courtroom isn’t so much fun. There’s a ...
Read More »Commentary: Super memories of legal camaraderie
We have all, in our own way, learned to practice law. All of us in varying degrees have become indebted to those who we picked up along the way as mentors and friends.
Read More »Commentary: Practicing the vital art of not talking
Lost in the concept of the lawyer as an oral advocate, is the unheralded subtlety that sometimes an advocate wields more influence by being quiet.
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Read More »Commentary: Being a lawyer for a client wife is valuable
Being a supportive husband, I have, on occasion, been drawn into my wife's residential housing gambit as legal counselor.
Read More »Commentary: How to get a billboard without paying for it
I was driving to work on a typical Friday morning when my good friend, Bob Wallace, formerly executive vice president and general counsel of the St. Louis Rams, called. Bob wryly asked who I had ticked off this time. Given my profession, I told him there was a never ending line of suspects and asked him why.
Read More »Commentary: To be or not to be … a lawyer
It seems like only yesterday I was filling out applications for law schools. Being a lawyer didn’t strike me as being that important. In fact, I was considering getting a Ph.D. However, the law school applications took so long to fill out, and having been admitted, it seemed like I might as well just go to law school, so I scrapped the Ph.D. idea.
Read More »Commentary: Life, voyages and the return to Guatemala
After taking the summer bar exam, I started packing. I had previously told my wife that I wanted to spend six months or so traveling in Central and South America after law school.
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