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Finally read the Fifth Circuit tasing case - a man doused himself with gas and had a lighter. The police knew if they taser him, he’d ignite. They did so
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I'm not going to get into political recriminations for all this yet. We're still in the thick of it. But I will say - I had dramatically undervalued in my
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Following up on the mistakes discussion, I want to emphasize - you will make mistakes in the practice of law. It's inevitable. The test is how you react to mistakes,
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Guys, an actual filing in federal court is asking for the court to establish the Stewardship of Gondor in the absence of Aragorn. No, I'm not joking. https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.1120287/gov.uscourts.txwd.112028
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A good rant on hours and such. A quick anecdote I might have told. As maybe a 2nd year associate, I went to complain to a partner that I'd billed
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History side-note moment: I read this 1776 report. I'll leave to others the various errors and whatnot. But it is a singularly bad piece of writing. Like how I wrote
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Trying to distribute 750 vaccines for the entire city of houston through a call center was completely bananas. When I heard about it I assumed they had tens of thousands
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I once read a case where the defendant signed a contract “Mickey Mouse” and then argued he hadn’t signed it. To be clear, he agreed he had signed the document.
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Texans: does anyone have a recipe for the orange salsa you get with breakfast tacos? You know the one I mean, smooth, very spicy, clearly habanero based. Herr Doktor Professor
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Re: all the debate about architecture. This is the Houston federal courthouse. One of my few real trolls is saying “this is bad” because a totally non-zero number of my
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Further thought: my advice to people who ask me about law school is to work before. Either try something "law," to see if it's ok for you, or try the
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OK, I had held off commenting on the New York "symbols of hate" statute, which purports to ban "symbols of hate" in some circumstances. As everyone else has noted, it
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