Its All Business, Especially the Busyness.
I have been self employed for a couple of decades, or as I call it, unemployed with overhead. Unless it was one of the days I skipped, no one in [...]
You May Find This Interesting.
My departed former law partner had a unique memory. He read a lot and retained what he read with excellent recall, especially the arcane and obscure facts. He loved to [...]
Supreme Court < Supreme Pizza
It’s been hot here. Not islands and west coast on fire hot, but hot all the same. I blame the heat for recent events. Hard to explain the weirdness that [...]
Less is More Trouble.
It is that most wonderful time of the year- CLE reporting period. Those who have their continuing legal education credits sit smugly by while those of us who are a [...]
Pomp and Circumstances Beyond our Control
Gentle Reader, It is summer, and graduation time for law students. It is also time for my semi-regular rant on law school. My law school experience was decades ago, so [...]
It’s What You Say And Where You Say It.
Back in the day, I think it was a Tuesday, my mentor told me not to write anything I would be embarrassed to see on the front page of the [...]
What Goes Down must be Sold Up
I was taking a deposition last week when I disappeared. Literally. It was a Zoom deposition with a doctor and I had paid handsomely for the privilege of questioning him. [...]
I’m Sorry Dave, I’m Afraid I Can’t do That.
We have been inundated with talk of artificial intelligence lately. My firm uses software to automate some of the everyday tasks we face, most often just to nag me to [...]
The More Things Change, the More They Become Different
I just had the mondayist of Mondays. I was loafing through my morning routine, walking the dog in the cold, pretending to work out, and having breakfast. I glanced at [...]
Today was Not a Good Day
I thought today would be a good day. Then I saw a request for help in a hunting group to search for an elderly hunter who was lost. The elderly [...]