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...
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...
Legal Ethics & Confucius
CONFUCIUS AND LAWYERLY EXCELLENCE Michael Sean Quinn Austin Texas Some years ago, I published a piece entitled The Analects for Lawyers: Variations Upon Confucian Wisdom, 34 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 933 (2002-2003). Those of you who find the jurisprudence of legal...
TEXAS INSURANCE BAD FAITH: MENCHACA II: ABOUT SUBSTANCE (QUINN’S PART THREE]
MENCHACA II: MORE ON SUBSTANTIVE RULES USAA Texas Lloyds Company v. Menchaca, 545 S.W.3d 479 (Tex. 2018) Quinn's Part Three This part is a brief exposition and discussion of part of the Supreme Court's Opinion Section II entitled "Recovering Policy...
Old Lawyers With New Practices
JUST DO IT AND PRAY MICHAEL SEAN QUINN* Suppose you, the Aging Lawyer, have had a good practice until recently. But you got dropped from your firm, say, you were eased out, say, the firm broke up and you didn't get carried along, or something of the sort. And what...
LAW AND PHILOSOPHY according to ANTHONY T. KRONMAN
LAWYERING AND PHILOSOPHIZING Anthony Kronman is (or has been) a law professor, the Dean of a Law School at Yale University for a long time (as those things go, these days), and of counsel to one of America's premier litigations firms. He also got a Ph.D. in philosophy...
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