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1 Aug 2011, 7:23 pm
I have occasionally wanted to refer to fools of the nth (or even or odd) degree, but been unable (probably because they aren’t “fools” but “simpletons”) to bring to hand the Edgar Allen Poe quote from which the expression came. [read post]
26 Jul 2010, 1:58 pm
Quoth Vincent Bugliosi, in a comment posted by John Kindley: ‘Everyone is entitled to be represented by an attorney’ is the idealistic chant often recited by defense attorneys as justification for representing even the most vicious criminals in our society. [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 2:35 pm
I started this blog on 19 March 2007, but I started blogging on 13 August 2004. [read post]
1 Aug 2012, 6:30 pm
Synchronicity. [read post]
13 Jul 2010, 7:30 pm
It’s not that he loves his job: I could have been a contender instead of what I am, a document review attorney. [read post]
21 Aug 2010, 3:10 pm
Divorce lawyer John Clinton, running for criminal court judge, seems to be saying that when he was a Houston police officer he “amassed years of trial experience. [read post]
13 Jul 2011, 9:26 pm
(a) A person commits an offense who, in a public place and with intent to cause public annoyance or alarm: (1) Engages in fighting or in violent or threatening behavior; (2) Refuses to obey an official order to disperse issued to maintain public safety in dangerous proximity to a fire, hazard or other emergency; or (3) Creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act that serves no legitimate… [read post]
14 Sep 2010, 6:17 pm
Most of this year’s Harris County judicial elections are worthy of little more than a shrug. [read post]
27 Jul 2012, 9:55 pm
Other old business, from the archives… Kansas appellate PD "S" writes at Preaching to the Choir: I don't begrudge my colleagues in private practice from earning a living and charging a fair fee for their work. [read post]
17 Sep 2010, 5:46 pm
Pattis plays dumb: So rather than engage in another link-building piece of naval [sic] gazing, I will submit the issue Bennett raised to my local Grievance Committee, the body that polices lawyers. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 3:31 pm
…at Declarations and Exclusions. [read post]
9 Sep 2012, 10:28 am
Jordan Rushie asks (rhetorically), Should I run my law firm on Apple? [read post]
7 Oct 2010, 8:05 am
The Houston Chronicle went out of its way to praise Pat Lykos for “promising to investigate the suicide of a young boy whose parents claim he was the victim of intense bullying at his school”; the newspaper ignores the opportunity cost of fulfilling this publicity-happy promise. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 6:34 am
Apropos of TSA, I wrote here that “it’s self-evident that one’s chances of going to prison for child molestation increase dramatically when one spends every day groping strangers. [read post]
16 Jan 2011, 12:50 pm
Besides an attempt to eviscerate flat fees, what is the State Bar asking us to approve in Question A of its referendum, and is any of it worth the harm that will be done to criminal defendants in Texas? [read post]
14 Oct 2010, 1:11 pm
Robert S. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 9:21 pm
Paul Kennedy asks, “How do you react when a judge asks a defendant entering a guilty plea whether or not he believes in Jesus? [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 5:52 pm
At the Reagan Library Republican presidential debate, the crowd cheered when Rick Perry boasted about the 234 executions during his tenure as governor (Crucify him! [read post]
12 Dec 2011, 2:03 pm
The mainstream media would have you believe that all American politics come down to a single spectrum: from liberalism on the left to conservatism on the right: That spectrum gives the simpleminded something to argue about—Republicans each trying to convince the other that they are the more conservative, and Democrats trying to convince each other that they are the more moderate. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 8:23 pm
If you are a blogging lawyer, and you want to be read by other bloggers, know that being read by other bloggers includes being taken to task publicly when you write something dumb or silly or ill-considered or even just vapid. [read post]
