by Experience, Dedication, Results | Jul 9, 2011
It’s hard not to like Joe Dunn. He’s bright, he’s charming, and he’s determined. I can see why he was elected to the State Senate several times. Last year, I asked Joe Dunn to speak on the subject of gender bias in the legal...
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Jul 7, 2011
Suppose a husband and wife work at the same company, in different departments. Suppose the wife makes a sexual harassment complaint at work. Suppose further both she and her husband get fired not long after that. She claims she was fired in...
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Jul 6, 2011
Lincoln responded to a charge of being two-faced by asking, “If I were two faced, would I be wearing this one?” His point is a good one for legal writing as well. Good writing, good communication generally, and legal writing specifically have these...
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Jul 5, 2011
The traditional law firm of 30 years ago was book intensive with a large space contributed to accommodate all those volumes. It was also an area where lawyers would have serendipitous encounters that sparked case discussions and produced fertile collaboration....
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Jul 3, 2011
We and the Social Media Giants are in this strange love lock: we are seduced and used. We know it, and we like it. We keep giving away our personal information. What are the privacy limits of what we give them? How badly can we be used as the price we pay? Not to...
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Jul 2, 2011
I was trained in the art of dysfunction. In law school, we built our knowledge base around the word “versus” as in Palsgraff v. Long Island Railroad or Roe v. Wade. There were clashes of will, obstacle courses of criminal or civil procedure,...
