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More email news: a lawyer is censured for one

Take a look at this abstract from the New York Law Journal, about an email one lawyer sent to another who happened to have been the forewoman of a jury that decided against the first lawyer’s client. I didn’t know … Continue reading

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The courts: Democracy is a three-legged stool

The courts are not simply a check on the democratic process but a part of it. Across the country, men and women have filed declarations, testified, gone to trial, and appealed. If voting is an act of participatory democracy, so … Continue reading

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Settlements: (1) general reflections

My lawsuit — the one that inspired this blog — settled. Perhaps granting the lawsuit its own dynamic, i.e., phrasing the settlement as if the lawsuit took care of it itself, sounds odd. But it isn’t. It’s accurate. I didn’t … Continue reading

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