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My wife Cheryl’s birthday is coming up. She tends to buy what she wants, which is a good thing unless you’re trying to buy her something she wants. Because this is a difficult task, it is wise to “listen” for ...

Sometimes we win. Sometimes we lose. For some lawyers, the losses may be so searing that the agony of defeat endures long after the sweet smell of success would have faded away. Others, like me, concentrate on the wins, relegating ...

First Lady Melania Trump is interested in the well-being of children and is concentrating on discouraging cyber-bullying of teens. On the day she announced her formal platform, I was in front of my house trying to kick-start the 1978 Triumph ...

After 37 years, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was forced out of power. Mugabe, a dictator with a law degree from the University of London, had a lot more money when he quit the presidency than when he started. The intersection ...

Because the law, life and life in the law are so interesting, there’s always something to write about. I started writing columns in law school when Jimmy Carter was president, and shortly after I became an attorney, a media-savvy candidate ...

The last time I left this country, I stopped in Istanbul on the way home. Istanbul has had its share of terrorist activity in the past several years, so when visiting it is advisable to keep an eye out. If ...

Lawyers sometimes need a little inspiration. Sometimes we forget what “called us” to the bar. For me, it was initially Perry Mason, and then it was the ‘60s: protests, riots and conflict over turning our backs on some of the ...

2017 found me scheduled for about a half dozen trials during the last half of the year, and one overseas trip in the middle of all of them. Some of the trials are short and judge-tried, while others are more ...

At 9 on Friday evening the jury came in after four hours of deliberating on the three-week trial. The results for my client were less than stellar. There was a lot of money involved. There were large legal fees and ...

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 ...

With 2016 plainly visible in the rear-view mirror, the year’s two most dominant issues were clearly politics and technology. Both topics come with their own conundrums. The technology that made life so much easier in 2016, and seemed so “futuristic,” ...