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Recent Articles from Mark Levison

Mark Levison
Local April 16, 2018

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!

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 was swept to the helm. The Reagan Revolution provided a lot of material. Once in […]

Mark Levison
Local March 23, 2018

Tired of Turmoil

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 a rowdy-looking young fellow with a backpack approaches, you might want to walk the other […]

Mark Levison
Local February 5, 2018

The paths we choose to follow to the bar

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 things our parents had taught us. Those were challenging times, when the U.S. Justice Department’s […]

Mark Levison
Local November 22, 2017

Trials and judgments – here and abroad

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 time consuming. The jury trial just before the trip lasted three weeks. It had more […]

Mark Levison
Local October 11, 2017

All different sorts of trials

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 press coverage. When I got home I was tired and my wife Cheryl was sympathetic […]

Mark Levison
Local May 1, 2017

The Art of Trial Prep (while Writing) on Deadline

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 lawyer on the other side that’s doing the same thing, but his or her goal […]

Mark Levison
Local January 30, 2017

Making America litigious again

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,” causes lawyers to be on guard. For example, this Christmas my wife Cheryl gave me […]

Mark Levison
Local December 7, 2016

He Was Always Just Rick

I was only a first-year law student, when two very good looking third-year female law students asked if I wanted to go with them to a Lawyers Guild meeting. I could not refuse, since as 3Ls they must have known a lot more than me, and, as noted, they were quite attractive. The National Lawyers […]

Mark Levison
Local August 22, 2016

Play chess, not poker with your opponents

If lawyers ever intentionally tried to mentor me, I didn’t notice. That doesn’t mean I didn’t learn along the way from some of the older boys — there weren’t really any girls in those days. I recall the head of the first firm I joined casually mentioning, in his somewhat arrogant way, that it was […]

Mark Levison
Local June 21, 2016

Litigators, Alligators and The Nightly News

It’s just fun to be a lawyer. That’s not only today, it’s almost any day and any time. Of course, like any other profession, law has its peaks and valleys, its periods of rising income followed by less jubilant times, and then the cycle starts again. History provides us with unlimited role models with paths […]

Local April 29, 2016

Different perspectives: Same old thing

In bed each night, I think about all of the things I am thankful for that happened during that day. It’s probably a habit I picked up from some 1970’s guru I meditated with in India during my post-college quest for enlightenment and its various accoutrements. Additionally, sometimes, while fluffing my pillow, I try to […]

Local January 15, 2014

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.

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