Some Reflections on Well-Being for Lawyers
ATTORNEY EXCELLENCE AND WELL-BEING Michael Sean Quinn*One hears a great deal these days about the law of lawyering, the core concepts of disciplinary rules and responsible lawyering, the ethics of lawyering, the moral principles governing sound practice, and so...
AMERICAN INSURANCE LAW: SOME TWENTIETH CENTURY HISTORY SKETCHED
INSURANCE LAW IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: REMEMBERANES OFTHE RECENT PASTMichael Sean Quinn* This essay is an informal, mostly memory-based sketch–and nothing more–of what younger people, including many young...
PART II: TECHNOLOGY AND THE DESTRUCTION ID THE LEGAL PROFESSION (INSURANCE)
TRENDS AND PROPHECIES AS TO“DISRUPTIVE” TECHNOLOGY AND INSURANCE LAWYERING Michael Sean Quinn* There is another way to think about what is becoming of the legal profession in general and therefore insurance coverage practice. An earlier essay of mine (paradoxically...
SUSSKIND AND THE FUTURE OF LAWYERING
TRENDS AND PROPHECIES AS TO“DISRUPTIVE” TECHNOLOGY Michael Sean Quinn* It is popular to see the insurance profession, and insurance lawyering in particular, as a profession under stress. Often, the point is that there very substantial changes her and more coming. New...
The Happy Lawyer, Introduction–Part One: Orientation
Michael Sean Quinn, Ph.D, J.D., Etc. 2630 Exposition Blvd #115 Austin, Texas 78703 (o) 512-296-2594 (c) 512-656-0503 mquinn@msqlaw.com Preface There are lots of books and articles focusing on a whole array of "happiness topics": how to think...
The Very Unhappy Lawyer-Part Zero
The Happy Lawyer: Recommendations & Advice
Two Duties of Lawyers
Lawyers and Loyalty Consider the following opening paragraph in Magistrate Judge's (Hon. Nan R. Noland) opinion in regarding e-discovery in Kleen Products, LLC v. Packaging Corporate Corp. of Am. (___ F.Supp ___ S.D.N.Y.___ (Sept. 28, 2012, 2012 WL 4498465). “Lawyers...
Yet Another General Approach
The Happy Lawyer–Advice (or Recommendations) for Lawyers
Stoicism versus Epicureanism–Sense versus Sensibility
A PROFOUND PHILOSOPHICAL FUSION In the ancient world of Greek and Roman philosophy, Stoicism and Epicureanism were regarded as competing and contradictory philosophical systems, schools, outlooks, notions, and so forth. I recently ran across a situation in which the...
Folk ‘Anything’
"Folk X" Is Usually Derisive Folklore" and "folktales" are not terms of contempt, but many such terms are, like "folk-wisdom," "folk-psychology," and so forth. The list goes on and on. This phraseology is often a professorial epithet used to refer to "common...
LEGAL ETHICS–PART II
CURRENT INSURANCE LAWYERING
SOME CURRENTS Insurance law and practice hasn’t changed much in the last couple of decades. In part that is because insurance law itself is in the doldrums. Doctrinal stagnation has been inflicted upon the practice inflicted upon the community of coverage. Some have...
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