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Like many of you, I am sad and tired of this pandemic with no end in sight. By now, we all have lost friends or favorite businesses to the scourge. In addition to the local joints, one of my favorite ...

I have often complained that law school prepared me to be a lawyer, not to practice law. As a lawyer who is unemployed with overhead, that has never been more true than now. Then again, I don’t know if I ...

I have often complained that law school prepared me to be a lawyer, not to practice law. As a lawyer who is unemployed with overhead, that has never been more true than now. Then again, I don’t know if I ...

Don’t be alarmed, gentle reader. The only substance addiction I have is for sugar, and except for certain cream-filled chocolate eggs, I do okay. Mostly. I did an hour in rehab alright, but it was for mental evils. Lawyers are ...

2020 came in hot — literally if you are in Australia. Along with arguments of whether this is the beginning or the end of the decade (it’s the end by the way, we count 1 to 10, not 0 to ...

I got out of the office and into the woods often enough to have a successful deer season this year. It was not as successful of a year for one buck that came home in the back of my truck. ...

It is deer season, aka redneck high holy days. I am trying to be in the woods more and in the office less. Like most of my plans, this is not going as I had hoped. Folks fall into two ...

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When I was a teenager, I had a hard time dragging myself out of bed in the morning. It wasn’t that I stayed out late partying because I was always home and in bed by 10 p.m. I simply couldn’t ...

Although the weather in my part of the world hasn’t quite gotten the memo — until recently, it’s been in the upper 80s and low 90s here — it is officially autumn. Little known fact: the word autumn comes from ...

Regular readers of this space may remember my dear dog Judge. He died several years ago — I was convinced it was only one or two years, but my wife and the pictures on social media reminded me that it ...

Gentle Reader, this is one of THOSE columns: the ones where Middle-Aged Lawyer Man controls my keyboard and my more reasonable voice is silent. Young folks either can’t relate or compare me to their dads. Or granddads. I have been ...

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