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...
PISSING ON THE PITHY
FALSE APHORISMS: A PREFACE Almost all aphorisms--pithy sayings that are intended to dispense wisdom--are false, misleading, actually unwise, and quite often dangerous. One can be inspired to do the wrong thing, make a mistake, or turn down the wrong road....
BULLSHIT FOR LAWYERS–A PHILOSOPHICAL GUIDE
ON BULLSHIT: A SHORT AND VIVID TREATISE FOR LAWYERS Michael Sean Quinn* Harry G. Frankfurt, a distinguished writer and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University wrote a very short book in 2005 entitled ON BULLSHIT. It was quite popular as philosophy...
LAWYERS, SELF-EXPLORATION, SPIRITUAL DEPTH, AND THE GOODNESS OF INEQUALITY
on inequality* Michael Sean Quinn** The title of this blog-essay is also the title of a book by Harry G. Frankfurt, one of the most interesting and readable social and ethics philosopher of the later...
LAWYER VIOLENT CRIME
FAMILY VIOLENCE Michael Sean Quinn* A New York personal injury (and maybe probate) litigator who lived in Fairfield Connecticut had spent his off duty time beating and stabbing members of his family. Some of the beatings were done with a baseball bat, apparently. At...
Cicero’s Axiom of Advocacy
A CICERONIAN AXIOM Michael Sean Quinn* Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43 BC) aka Cicero, one of history's greatest lawyers, as well as one of the top 10 orators of Western Civilization, one of the top 50 philosophers thereof, and one of its top 100 constitutionist...
LOVE, LAWYERS, AND LAW
LOVING TRUTH AND LOVING LAWYERING Michael Sean Quinn* One of the most significant American philosophers of the late Twentieth Century and on into the early 21st Century is Harry G. Frankfurt. His...
LAWYERS AS ASSHOLES
Assholes: What Are They? Michael Sean Quinn* "ASSHOLES: A THEORY" is the title of a short book by Aaron James, a professor of philosophy at the University of California Irvine. He published it in 2012 (Doubleday). It is a significant effort in what might be called...
Same Sex Marriage, Human Dignity, and Contemporary Constitutional Law
DISGRACEFUL DISSENTING OPINION ON DIGNITY Michael Sean Quinn* Whether gay men, lesbian women, or anyone else, for that matter, have a right to same sex marriage was resolved by the Supreme Court of the United States and was determined in the affirmative earlier...
Lawyer Advertising of Family Lawyers in Texas
AN ATTORNEY AD AND A BRIDES' MAGAZINE Michael Sean Quinn* There are "brides magazines" everywhere. They are glossy paged journals mostly advertising expensive dresses worn by beautiful and gleaming models, outfits for grooms, related costumes for...
Lusitania Disaster, Probate Law–Fowles’ Will, & the Cardozo Court
Lusitania Litigation and Charles Fowles’s Will: The Cardozo Decision of the New York Court of Appeals-- Part VIII.E Michael Sean Quinn, Ph.D., J.D. (See below)...
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