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I traveled to Kansas City recently to take depositions. Because the depositions were on a Friday and my wife’s birthday was the next day, we decided to go together and spend the weekend in the “City of Fountains.” The depositions ...

Tagged with: Mark Levison

In 1962, in the then-quaint town of Santa Barbara, California, a small lodging establishment known as Motel 6 was born. Since then, Motel 6 has grown into a motel franchise system with more than 1,000 locations, and it now is ...

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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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While the president chose to celebrate Independence Day this year with a military display of force in our nation’s capital, that same week the U.S. Court of Appeals celebrated our democratic values by issuing an opinion bolstering free speech. In ...

Tagged with: Independence Day Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University v. Donald J. Trump et al. Trump Twitter U.S. Court of Appeals

Our Declaration of Independence declared that it was our right to pursue life, liberty and happiness. It is widely acknowledged that the author of the phrase, Thomas Jefferson, borrowed from John Locke, who had advocated for the pursuit of life, ...

Whether or not entering into an of-counsel relationship is right for you or your firm should be analyzed on a situation-by-situation basis to ensure the relationship is properly defined and the relevant risk-management considerations have been addressed by the firm ...

Given the divisiveness of our nation, the rancor within the legal sector and the pushing, pulling, and fighting that surrounds it, one might suspect that 2019 is another one of those years where “the law” is not being very nice ...

Before going to court or the office each morning, I do the same thing most male lawyers do. I look in the mirror, I brush my teeth, I take a shower. I look in the mirror, and I shave. I ...

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At approximately 4:45 p.m. on November 9, 2016, three individuals, Jonathan Aladin, Cecelia Whettston and Endia Lawrence entered a small family-owned bakery that had been a fixture in the small town in which it was located for generations. A bakery ...

We all know how much the practice of law is changing and how difficult it can be for attorneys to keep up with these seemingly seismic shifts in our profession. Some attorneys are responding to these changes by forming alternative ...

It was 1973 — I wasn’t a lawyer. I was an adventurer, and I wanted to see the mountain gorillas. Although tourism in the Virunga mountains range was in its infancy, it was still possible to go to Uganda. Unfortunately, ...