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On Losing a Trial
I recently lost a trial. Like every other lawyer going through this experience, my iPad somehow found its way late at night to a variety of blogs on the topic, …
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Legal movies that inspire me: To Kill a Mockingbird
Many lawyers cite To Kill a Mockingbird or its film adaptation as the reason they pursued a career in law. It’s easy to see why: the American Film Institute selected the story’s …
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Some legal movies that inspire me
Legal movies are the perfect subgenre of drama. They have a good guy, a bad guy, and a conflict that must be resolved. It’s a really basic structure, but legal movies …
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Lessons re-learned: Trial College at Harvard Law
There are few, if any, lawyers who are unfamiliar with Scott Turow’s classic autobiographical account of his first year at Harvard Law: “It is Monday morning, and when I walk …
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Lawyer in a car crash
After representing clients in automobile crashes for over a decade, I recently got an opportunity to understand many of them better than ever… On my way to a meeting, I …