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4 Mar 2010, 7:20 pm by Carolyn Elefant
  From Abraham Lincoln (lawyer's advice... is his stock in trade) to Richard Susskind (who emphasizes the continuing vitality of bespoke advice even in an automated world), our currency is our judgment and ability to counsel. [read post]
26 Jul 2018, 1:53 pm by Helena Okolicsanyi
We generally don’t advise folks to go it alone when filing formal complaints with the FCC lest they fall victim to Abraham Lincoln’s old adage regarding self-representation. [read post]
8 Apr 2019, 7:12 am by NCC Staff
The most famous instance of this was the race for Senate in Illinois in 1858, in which Abraham Lincoln faced off with Stephen Douglass despite neither being on the ballot. [read post]
18 Jul 2011, 11:06 am by Big Tent Democrat
It was a regular feature of my Talk Left writing for the past 5 years, indeed, from my first Talk Left post in July 2006, What Obama Needs To Learn From Richard Hofstadter, Abraham Lincoln and FDR: Obama has learned nothing from Lincoln and nothing from Hofstadter. [read post]
19 Feb 2022, 4:30 am by SHG
.* It might have been a fairer battleground had the school board concerned itself with educating students as well as renaming schools to rid the city of the trauma of names like [trigger warning] George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
11 Jul 2018, 12:54 pm by Tim Springer
Babe Ruth purchased a disability protection policy from the Hartford in 1920 and the company insured the only home ever owned by Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
30 Apr 2014, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
In the midst of the trial, Abraham Rubin approached the victim’s boyfriend and offered the couple $500,000 if she would drop the charges and leave the country, so that Weberman could go free. [read post]
4 Jun 2019, 5:40 pm by Seeger Weiss LLP
” The report was commissioned by Seeger Weiss LLP, Williams Cedar LLC, Abraham Watkins and the Simpson Tuegel Law Firm, which collectively represent 300 survivors of clergy sex abuse nationwide. [read post]
27 Jun 2010, 2:05 pm by Russell DeMott
  As President Abraham Lincoln said, “A lawyer’s time and advice are his stock in trade. [read post]
10 Jul 2017, 5:07 am by Sam Bray
As the great medieval exegete Abraham ibn Ezra said, “Every gevi‘ah is a death, but not every death is a gevi‘ah. [read post]
3 Apr 2020, 8:32 am by Nicholas Mosvick
” During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus—meaning to “present the body,” or to be informed by a court of the charges before you—numerous times beginning in April 1861 upon the onset of war. [read post]
12 Jan 2007, 7:54 am
Yes, the losses at Bull Run and elsewhere were catastrophic, but I'm not sure that one can properly blame them on Abraham Lincoln, unless one wants to address the question of whether he should have adopted James Buchanan's policy of declaring secession illegal but, nonetheless, non-prevetable by the national government. [read post]
2 Sep 2008, 5:21 pm
In the car, I heard the film clip about Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
23 Jul 2007, 2:19 pm
Even Abraham Lincoln, who routinely touted his youthful poverty, was relatively well-to-do. [read post]
18 May 2019, 4:14 am by SHG
“It is giving us a look at how poverty and inequality directly affect students’ college destinations, as it relates to [test scores]” [ Anthony Abraham Jack, a Harvard professor and the author of The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students] said. [read post]
29 Mar 2022, 6:00 am by Josh Blackman
Abraham Lincoln articulated this perspective more than a century earlier. [read post]
21 Dec 2011, 5:50 am by James E. Clapp, guest-blogging
Why else would Abraham Lincoln, in a public address celebrated as a model of concision, say that it was not just fitting but “altogether fitting and proper” to dedicate a portion of the Gettysburg battlefield as a cemetery for the fallen soldiers — and then go right on to use three virtually synonymous words to say that “in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground”? [read post]
8 Mar 2008, 10:40 am
Well, how did Abraham Lincoln get elected president? [read post]