Above: E practicing Structure. This 2006 post is from our famous Evergreen Collection. We haven’t seen a need to revise it much. […]

WJC and writer, January 1, 2009, noon, Charleston 1. Date no one named Zoe, Brigit or Natasha. 2. No one you just […]

A funny, fearless and densely layered poem (1960s super-critic Karl Shapiro said the “baroque” style used made it funnier and more ironic), […]

See Rule 7: Know the Client. Every great client wants you to know him, her or it. Take time out to learn […]

Education is not just about getting a job.

Guest in Detroit, 1935 Enormously popular for the first half of the 20th century, Detroit’s Edgar A. Guest (1881-1959) charmed America with […]

For me, it beats Big Sur and the Austrian Alps. My favorite place in the world, it is desolate in the winter […]

Sir John Popham (1531″“1607) was an MP, Speaker of the House of Commons, and Lord Chief Justice of England. We think he […]

Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine […]

I bind to myself today The power of Heaven, The light of the sun, The brightness of the moon, The splendour of […]

Saint Patrick’s Day is on Sunday. For starters, be advised that real Irish-American males do not wear green on March 17. They […]

“Welcome back, Monsieur Hool.” This is Hôtel du Jeu de Paume, the non-oath version. Erected in the 17th century, it once housed […]

Lawyers who won’t take a stand is a time-honored tradition. Ernie from Glen Burnie, a lawyer and a life-long friend of mine, […]

If you work for a peer firm, you will encounter me or someone very much like me. [Y]ou cannot avoid the essence […]

John Daniel Hull, II, 1900 – 1987. My grandfather – always a class act. I spent his last 15 or so Thanksgivings […]

“I would have won them all if my clients hadn’t kept reloading and firing.” –Richard “Racehorse” Haynes (1927-2017). Trial Lawyer.

“I was simmering, simmering, simmering. Emerson brought me to a boil.” –Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Writer Jack London thought you could not wait […]

An objection must be stated concisely in a nonargumentative and nonsuggestive manner. –from Rule 30(c)(2), Fed. R. Civ. P. Defending lawyers who […]

“There’s no point in being Irish if you don’t know that the world is going to break your heart eventually.” –Daniel Patrick […]

Kurtz. He got off the boat. He split from the whole goddamn program. –Captain Willard, Apocalypse Now (1979) Thompson had a way […]

There is no joy except in creation. There are no living beings but those who create. All the rest are shadows, hovering […]

Picking up women and girls is something every straight young guy should learn early. Or call it something else. Courtship. Flirtation. Seduction. […]

More than a tower or a statue, or an artist’s or soldier’s name on a plaque or street post, the green bookstalls […]

Those now green Paris book stands lining the Seine go back. 500 years at least. You don’t read? Go there alone. Any […]

Hermann the German, or Arminius, was a leader of Roman Auxiliary Cavalry in the 9th Century AD. In the three-day battle known […]