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Lawyer blogs are boring and jury trials are good. #7A
Lawyer blogs are boring. I chalk this problem up to an understandable but flawed perception of the two privileges that lawyers are taught to honor: 1) attorney-client privilege and 2) work-product privilege. The attorney-client privilege protects private communications between a client and a lawyer. This sensible rule promotes a full and frank discussion so that […]
What is Project 7A?
Early America adopted English common law and a long history of cherished rights, including the right to trial by jury – which dates back to 1215. In that year, Pope Innocent III issued an order validating a person’s right to a trial by peers. That same year, at Runnymede in England, King John was forced […]
Learn To Fish
For all the attention the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution gets, very little attention is given to our right to jury trials. Starting with the Magna Carta in England, the pantheon of natural rights in America would be toothless without the right to seek redress and defend oneself before a jury of our […]
Why I’m A Trial Lawyer (No. 2)
I used to sit for hours with my Uncle Reed talking about history, particularly the American Civil War. We shared a passion for that part of our lore. We’d review the characters, the political developments of that day and of course the battles. As lawyers, we tended to gravitate always back to Lincoln (the Sun […]
Why I’m A Trial Lawyer (No. 1)
“I am not an accomplished lawyer” Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was a famously small town lawyer. For the bulk of his career, he practiced solo with the help of a junior lawyer named Herndon – who functioned more as a paralegal – doing office organizing and paperwork. Lincoln was a circuit rider, traveling around the […]
DATA BREACH: A Patient Rights Primer
Published in the June Res Gestae. Bill Thompson, Jr. April 26, 2016 On November 13, 2015, the FBI notified 21st Oncology that over two million patients’ confidential records and data in 21st Century’s possession and control had been collected and sold by criminals using the Internet. 21st Century’s patients were not notified for three months or […]