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A Somali convicted of attempted murder wants the verdict tossed out, claiming his prosecutor wrote unkindly about his nationality on her Facebook page during the trial. A high school honors student gets suspended for calling a teacher the “worst ever” ...

Since the 2001 Tax Act, an inside joke of many trust departments and trust and estate attorney firms has been “work with your clients so that they consider dying in 2010, so that they can avoid estate taxes.” In truth, ...

Have you ever been told not to (1) start a sentence with and or but [we discussed this in detail a previous column], (2) end a sentence with a preposition, or (3) have a paragraph with fewer than three sentences? ...

Many writers edit their documents when they should be revising. As used in this column, “editing” means refining the presentation of a document in terms of paragraph breaks, run-on sentences, grammar, punctuation, spelling and the like. “Revising” entails evaluating the ...

The Missouri Supreme Court found its way to another strange wrinkle in the in the DUI criminal and administrative framework last week. In Natalie R. Ross v. Director of Revenue the court basically said that the Department of Revenue can ...

Panic and fear of financial disaster are no longer part of the daily headlines, but, as most law firms (and other businesses) know, plenty of business challenges remain after two years of economic crisis. One of the biggest is fundamental: ...

No one could blame David Brown for being piqued at Hugh Hefner. Brown bought a chunk of Playboy Enterprises Inc., believing in the way the company made money, which is mostly by feeding male sexual fantasies. That formula hasn’t worked ...

I began my legal career in an era when physicians and other health care providers were told that, when they had an adverse outcome, they were to “call your insurance company and to not talk to anyone except your defense ...

Of all the slanders against attorneys and terrible suggestions for improving the profession, the most pernicious is that lawyers are tree killers for all the paper we use. They say we should use both sides of the paper when writing ...

For those who think it an outrage that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents Mirandized the Christmas Day underwear bomber 50 minutes into his chat with agents, I have two words for you. Richard Reid. With a shoe containing partly burned ...

There has been a lot of debate recently concerning the U.S. government’s ability to manage industry versus that of the private sector. I thought it would be interesting to see how the value of the government’s stock (as measured by ...