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A numb er of years ago, while I was in law school, I received a call from my mom, and she started asking me about the elements of a criminal assault case in Texas. I don’t know about all of you, but this was not the question I expected from... -
"A judge's job is to apply the law and, in the absence of a jury, to decide the facts of the case. This job description should not include advancing a personal or partisan agenda from the bench. When a judge brings a personal agenda or partisan commitments to the bench,...
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I just got off the phone with a defendant in a car wreck case. We had served him with a suit a few days ago, and he's been leaving harassing messages at off hours claiming he didn't own a car and was out of town on the date of the wreck. The...
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I'm not sure I've ever seen a more appalling story about the judicial system. The Associated Press is reporting that two Pennsylvania judges have been charged with accepting millions of dollars in bribes to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers. And for petty crimes too. The story...
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Over sixty percent of the lawyers in the U.S. practice in solo or small firms, but U.S. law schools don’t do anything to help students actually practice law. Sure, schools teach us the law and how to think like lawyers, but they don’t teach how to be lawyers. A lot...
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I wanted to write something as a tribute appropriate for this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, but I was searching around for a something that inspired me, and I was coming up empty. But then, a note in my inbox pointed me to a blog post from Kelly Erb at...
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I'm a few days behind on my magazines (actually, more than that judging by the pile on my desk) so I just got around to reading my January 5, 2009 Texas Lawyer, which contains an article entitled DOWN MARKETS REQUIRE CREATIVE CHOICES: Use Flexible Fee Structuring To Add Clients In Tough...
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I heard an interesting story on NPR yesterday about a discrimination lawsuit against the Olympics. Ten women from six countries are suing to seek the right to participate in ski jumping at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games. Ski jumping is the only sport that is open to men, but...
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Over the past couple of weeks, I have been looking at Stephen Comiskey’s book, A Good Lawyer. I’ve previously posted my favorite excerpts from Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3 and Chapter 4. Today, I look at Chapter 5, which is available online. Again, the book is out of print,...
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Attorney and CBS News analyst Andrew Cohen had a great opinion piece Saturday calling out the US Chamber of Commerce entitled "Made in America: Corporate Gall --- On Corporations Seeking to "Reform" the Very System They Broke." It's an oustanding article, and I would cut and paste the entire thing if I...