Category: LAW PRACTICE
“A Business Decision”
I was just reading a deposition in which the soon-to-be Purchaser of a company did not contact a bank about a loan it had made to the Seller. The failure to contact was a disaster: litigation only lawyers can love. When asked...
Read MoreDepositions: “. . . sir. . . .”
In depositions, when a questioning lawyer is exasperated with the answer (or answers) of a witness, s/he will sometimes repeat the questions, more or less, and punctuate it with “sir” or “madam” Consider...
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Law Firms Dismiss Legal Secretaries
It has been reported that many larger law firms are firing considerable numbers of staff members,...
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LAWYERS, NON-CLIENTS, AND NEGLIGENT MISREPRESENTATION.
The common law of Texas and most other law “making” jurisdictions relatively recently...
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DEDICATED LAWYERING–Work/Life Balance
“I WISH I HADN’T” – THE LAWYER AND THE LAW FIRM It is now fashionable to...
Read More“Breadwinner Moms” & Law Firms
The Pew Research Center just published a report entitled “Breadwinner Moms.” It is the talk of the “daily talk shows” or the “argument shows.” What people have love to talk about...
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Legal Ethics: Excessive Fees (An Old Story)
Legal Fees and Legal History Many say that the legal profession is going to hell in part because...
Read MoreThe Unhappy Legal Culture–Part I
Evidence from “Don’t Do It” Is there really evidence that the legal profession is in a state of decline? Evidence is weak, at best. See Richard A. Epstein, “The Rule of Lawyers” WALL STREET...
Read MoreFen-Phen Judge Disbarred in Kentucky
This story is being told as background to the next post. It pertains to Stanley Chesley, a “Madoffian” rip off artist, at least in his aging years. Lawyers stole substantially more than $100M from their client...
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LAWYERS, LAW FIRMS & BUSINESS(ES)
It is often said that law as a business, law firms conceptualized as businesses, lawyers thinking...
Read MoreObservations Regarding Depositions
Witnesses and Therefore Lawyers in Depositions, Third Observations Previously, in another post, I set forth a few ways to proceed in depositions and deposition preparation. Here are a few more: (1) When a (W)itness is...
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Lawyer Firms Swindled–BIG TIME
A man named Emmanuel Ekhator pleaded guilty a short time ago in federal court for heading up a...
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