Not Always As They Appear.

It looks like a vase of flowers, doesn’t it? But its not. Its a container of pens for people to fill out summary appeal form.

CEB Blog — Continuing Education of the Bar — added to Blogroll.

No. 734 I have been adding a number of blogs with practical information for lawyers [and others] to the blogroll on the left-hand margin of this blog. If you like the Lawyerist or Time Management Ninja, you are going to enjoy reading CEB Blog. Here’s a sample contain sound advice about email mistakes commonly made […]

At a Time Like This . . .

Every time is a time of opportunity. Discovering what the opportunity is — that’s the catch. But there will surely someday be a last time and a last opportunity. Don’t ever let someone tell you to postpone a worthy endeavor at a time like this.

THE MONSTER THAT DEVOURED CLEVELAND AND OTHER BEDTIME STORIES.

No. 732 Security officers reported seeing a 5 foot alligator in Beaver Run Reservoir about a month ago but didn’t remember to report it. Big deal, only five feet long anyway. The manager of the Westmoreland County Water and Sewer Authority, Chris Somebody, told the press that the Authority wasn’t going to worry about it, […]

Thank You Real Estate Agents

No. 731 Thanks to the great group of real estate agents that took the continuing professional education class I gave at CCAC North this past week. They asked plenty of great questions and added a great deal to the discussion. I will be giving the class at least four more times in the Spring at […]

He Changed the World.

No. 730 How many of the billions who have come and gone from this planet can truthfully say, “I changed it for all time”?

Dear Free Lawyer — Answers To Legal Questions For Nothin’.

No. 729 Dear Free Lawyer: I have to make lots of trips to the bathroom due to one of those conditions that come with age. Am I entitled to get unemployment as a door to door salesman because I can’t do my job? — Frequent Flyer Dear Frequent: Don’t count on it. For one thing, […]

Happy Birthday to a Great Lawyer.

No. 728 ‘Strange as it always seemed to many of his contem- pories Gandhi also carried with him to his dying day the legal outlook which he had imbibed during his early youth when he had studied law in a lawyer’s office in London. This unusual combination of the saint and the lawyer made him […]

Killing Al-Awlaki.

Yes, its true that an American Citizen was assassinated without a trial. But an important but simple principle of law has been overlooked by the critics of this practice. Al Qaida leaders are enemy combatants in the field. While we are at war with Al Qaida, its leaders are fair game under the rules of war.

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