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Preliminary investigation: Before finding a lawyer

A quickie here, supplementing yesterday’s piece about my valiant—if counterintuitive—efforts to save my building by getting it violated. The Department of Buildings does much more than send out inspectors (although since NYC is now publicly up-in-arms about illegal apartments that … Continue reading

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What was Alexey Navalny, Russian hero, doing 6 years ago?

On April 20, 2011, I posted a piece about the discovery process in lawsuits, specifically referring to a guy we now read about every day, because he’s leading–with great courage–the Russian resistance to Putin. Navalny’s focus is on corruption in … Continue reading

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So why are legal documents such lousy reads?

With a bravura quote from the Marx Brothers, I begin an interesting take from a legal genius on why we non-lawyers find it so impossible to read legal documents. Continue reading

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