It had been a gloomy day, and I don’t just mean the weather. I was running behind schedule to court. The closest parking spot was three blocks away, so I got to enjoy a brisk walk to the courthouse in ...
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When last month when I put pen to paper — or I guess these days it should be characterized as voice-to-iPhone dictation app — I suggested the judiciary ought to be allocated a portion of the blame for our current ...
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The US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri has dusted off an ADR tool used infrequently in Missouri but effective in certain cases known as Early Neutral Evaluation. Recently, the court ordered two cases out to ENE with ...
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As NCAA college basketball programs, fantasy sports websites, casinos and gamblers worldwide prepared for the college basketball tournament that began in March, a different madness bombarded the consciousness of many, in the form of indictments, sentencing and the details of ...
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I’ve keep running into pirate symbols lately. Trial lawyers have a lot in common with pirates, as I’ve written in this space before. Pirates came up with a system of workers’ compensation long before it was popular elsewhere. They always ...
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You see it all the time: The driver next to you is on the phone, paying more attention to it than to the road. We all know distracted driving is widespread, so what can you do in your crash cases ...
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No, I am not going to write about Roger Stone. Most of us saw the picture of the judge he posted on the internet with crosshairs above her head. Of course, we all know that anyone who is still a ...
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The year was 1955. The man was well known in the small city he called home. People thought they knew him. Then he was summoned for jury duty. Voir Dire, the process of jury selection, went forward much as it ...
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The American lawyer knows that our legal system evolved from the English system of yore. We also know that our forefathers continue a similar system, though one with some marked differences from the one across the pond. We also realize ...
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In 1998, I was both a new father and a new lawyer. Fortunately, I was blissfully unaware of how unprepared I was for either gig, and that is what kept me from running — screaming — into the woods. The ...
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It was 1974. Neither my wife nor I were lawyers, yet. The trip to Bombay (now Mumbai) from Mombasa, Kenya, was on an Indian boat having no resemblance to a Royal Caribbean ocean liner (other than perhaps norovirus). We were ...
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