Today’s lesson: proper drafting … musing over my coffee!

In the legal community where I earn my living and enjoy the challenge of my career, there are a few “tricks” I’ve learned over the past thirty years. These are generic, and not specific to any one particular type of legal writing, though I will use a tort petition/complaint as an example. I’m sharing them [...]

Musings: Do people change?

“I’ve been lately thinking about my life’s times, all the things I’ve done and how it’s been.” – John Denver, Poems, Prayers and Promises Have you ever noticed how some things don’t really change? How there are ‘leaders’ and there are ‘followers’ and how the followers very rarely gain enough self-confidence to break from the [...]