Archive: Travis Jensen

  • 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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  • The 49th ITLA Annual Institute

    My mentor, Charles R. Vaughan, was the chair of the very first ITLA Institute that took place on a Saturday in December of 1965.   The one-day seminar took place in …

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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 …

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