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Really, who wants laws for ourselves? Deep down, don't most of us just want the laws to restrict everyone else, so that we can go on with our days without people gratuitously killing us ( Read more... )

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One of the trickiest things about being a litigator is that the real world does not operate on carefully allocated burdens of proof and standards of evidence. In the courtroom, it is the lawyer’s job to translate the real world through a matrix of legal principles into a presentation that meets rigorous standards of proof, while still remaining ( Read more... )

Someone once told me that everyone should be able to recite the first ten lines of the Aeneid from memory. I suppose that's as far as you need to get before people worry that you've memorized the whole damn thing and stop listening ( Read more... )