I often wonder why, assuming court rules permit it, lawyers don't incorporate more visual images—photographs and diagrams, including depictions of exhibits introduced at trial—directly into their briefs and court filings,…
The New York Court of Appeals has ruled that a New York City ordinance regulating lawyers who serve as general debt collectors does not intrude upon the state's authority to…
If you took the pronunciation quiz in last month's issue, you may well have had any of several reactions, some negative. (1) Denial: That can't be right! I've never…
One in three women and one in four men in the United States above the age of 18 have been subjected to acts of physical violence by an intimate partner,…
Every so often a news item appears about how a particular legal term is most properly pronounced. Certiorari, for example, surfaces from time to time. Last year an article on…
The Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers is calling for a drastic streamlining of ethics rules governing lawyer advertising. APRL says the change would make it easier for attorneys to reach…
I am driving to the law school where I work, listening to Sirius radio. The Bridge plays music from the 1960s and '70s. Carly Simon sings "You're so vain. I…
The most important part of a brief? That depends on whom you ask. Some say the issue statements. Others say page 1 (which ought to amount to the same thing).…
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