I’ve written before about trying a case with my zipper unzipped, but today I’d like to disclose some of my favorite verbal blunders during cross examinations the last 4 years, just in case I ever start getting cocky about never losing at trial. 1) Plaintiff is on the stand, and […]
As I referenced in yesterday’s post, my office was a bit stressed today with the sudden vacating by an associate attorney. Even the vending machine could do no right, as it apparently took Pat’s $.65. When I walked by and saw her note for the guy who restocks it, I […]
Since Congress apparently only listens to us for one big vote and then swaps pork favors for votes a few days later to give the American public its middle finger, I’m advocating a return to the era of civil disobedience. If our coin is going to be commandeered every couple […]
Last night, I had an appointment to show my rental property to a 20-something medical student named Suleman. We’d spoken on the phone, and I guess I thought he was Indian perhaps. When he got out of the car, however, he looked like the grown version of the male rapist […]
Sarbanes-Oxley, I’m not a fan. Granted, I don’t practice securities or regulation law, so I don’t know much more about this piece of governmental meddling oversight other than what y’all know: that it was created to stop corporate raping of shareholders, a la Enron and WorldCom and HealthSouth and Adelphia, […]
