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My law firm, which is not atypical in how it’s structured, counts 38 attorneys, 15 paralegals, two law clerks, a firm administrator, and various legal assistants, file clerks, billing and accounting folks, a cheerful receptionist...

The biblical parable of the Good Samaritan goes like this: As recounted in Luke (10:25-37), a law expert stood up to test Jesus. He asked, “What must I do to earn eternal life?” Jesus replied, “What...

This is the second installment in a three-part series. In the first part of this three-part series, we peeked behind the curtain of the strange and fascinating system of how this nation picks a president. There,...

It’s hard to say what’s average when it comes to litigation. As in life generally, some things simply take longer than others. Some cases fly as straight as an arrow while others are more like a pachinko...

Say you’ve been sued.  Sorry. Besides grumbling, searching for a voodoo doll, a set of sharp pins, and answering the darn complaint, what can you do?  Well, it all depends.  First things first, however. If...

I passed the California bar exam in 1984. In 1986, I was admitted to the bar for Colorado. Some quick math suggests that I have been at this law game for 40 years. My, my where does the...

Increasingly, the Voting Rights Act has been under pressure. Like committed avaricious colonies of termites of a certain bent, legislators, PACs, and other operatives from the darkest recesses of the political universe have been nibbling...

The verdict having recently been handed down in the defamation case against him, Rudy Giuliani is good and well screwed. Despite his wide-eyed bluster and his vow of redemption on appeal, the fact remains that...

“We sitting in here… and we in here talking about practice.I mean, listen: We talking about practice. Not a game. Not a game. Not a game.We talking about practice.Not a game. Not the game that...

It takes all kinds. And I’ve certainly had them. From the couples who could not be kind enough to one another, to the woman who, upon our meeting for the first time, challenged me to...