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No, no and never.
“Every big company has somebody like you. Somebody to wave his tiny fists in the air so we can all pretend to listen before we go do whatever it is we were going to do anyway.” - Vinny Duto, Alex...
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“Jackson” . . . belatedly.
A departure from snark to talk about a dog. Dogs evoke lots of emotions. Some sad — and others mischievously hilarious! Cigared Jackson Jackson, the grinning, fun-loving family Golden Retriever on...
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Crime — and diet bring an ill wind.
“Does the odor of raw marijuana emanating from a vehicle in which the defendant is an occupant provide sufficient probable cause for law enforcement officers to search the car and its occupants?” That...
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Skipping the Bar’s Annual Butt-Numb-A-Thon and I’m still not paying for their...
It’s annual state bar convention time this week. And as usual, along with some 16,000 non-attending Arizona lawyers, I won’t be among the approximately 9% of active Arizona lawyers darkening the...
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Overused lawyer trope: “I will fight for you”— even if sometimes they duke it...
One of the most hackneyed lawyer advertising slogans is the overused ‘hired gun‘ trope: “I will fight for you.” It’s a phrase particularly worn out by personal injury lawyers. Indeed, there’s a lawyer...
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“Hernandezing,” one more bite, and last minute Free CLE.
On the day before the fiscal year-end deadline for lawyers hunting last-minute free online continuing legal education (CLE), here are a few disconnected posts. And with the usual disclaimers, one is a...
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Aging fearlessly with joy.
Unlike then 102-year old Oscar Niemeyer who after 100 years, said “it’s all crap,” author and neurologist Oliver Sacks says he “does not think of old age as an even grimmer time that one must somehow...
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Same story, different day for “irresistible” Melissa Nelson.
So much for the national outcry following the Iowa Supreme Court’s decision upholding the firing of Melissa Nelson. She was the dental assistant fired by Dr. James Knight for supposedly being too...
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Survey says lawyers at bottom.
For unhappy souls toiling in a soul-killing legal vineyard but dreaming of exiting to something else — like screenwriting dimwitted sitcoms or egesting superfluous legal thrillers or of IRAC-ing ‘great...
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Bad Mexican restaurants in a bad dining town.
I knew that when I saw the fly doing the breaststroke in the salsa bar salsa, I should’ve walked out. But no. I paid for my purchase at that divey Mexican restaurant and took home my large bowl of...
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Stair surfing pooch and more FREE CLE.
I’ve said before that non-lawyers don’t give a rip about continuing legal education (CLE) and whether or not lawyers pay for it or get it gratis. And truth be known, were it not for CLE being mandatory...
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Montezuma strikes.
Against the advice of loved ones, I’ll admit to having frequented the drive-through Mexican eatery making the local news the past week. But fortunately for me, I wasn’t craving a carnitas taco or a...
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Prosecutorial misconduct and trifling with perfection.
Here’s a switch, last week Brian Schowalter, a criminal defense lawyer in Durango, Colorado was on the receiving end of a grand jury indictment brought by the district attorney who alleged Schowalter...
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Too good to pass up . . . doggie’s ‘welcome home.’
My own dogs are antidotes to my otherwise indefatigable standing as counsellor ‘curmudgeon’ in residence. So I make no apologies for remaining a ‘sucker’ for heartwarming dog stories. Besides, today is...
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Lawyers and email disclaimers by committee.
As lawyers are wont to do, we bloviate. Last week there was an insufferably long-winded exchange among a gaggle of them on a listserv. The emails were so prolific and the discussion so tiresome, I...
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The case of undocumented wanna-be lawyer Sergio Garcia: landmark decision or...
So last week, the case of undocumented lawyer-in-waiting Sergio Garcia was finally argued before the California Supreme Court. The question asked was whether it is legal for an illegal immigrant to be...
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No shame in . . . FREE CLE game and about that civet coffee.
Before getting to “Free CLE” — first there’s Judge Wade “No shame in my game” McCree who was back in the news this week. For those who’ve forgotten, he’s the 3rd Circuit Court jurist out of Detroit...
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Fantastically working post-lottery winnings and one more FREE CLE program.
I was dwelling on the delusional or maybe, it was merely the fantastical, as I noted that a report last month at “Winning the Lottery, but Keeping Your Job” – NYTimes.com, claimed that two-thirds of...
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Free burrito and free CLE.
4th of July Independence Day beer, new car, furniture store, and supermarket barbecue promotions have come and gone. There’s nothing as American as the commercialization of a public holiday. Ditto even...
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Did you hear the one about Yelp suing a lawyer?
Last month, consumer review site Yelp sued a lawyer for allegedly posting bogus reviews “intended to sway potential clients with false testimonials” or as one report put it, “Yelp’s Newest Weapon...
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