Defendant, thus, becomes a name / Which he that bore it may disclaim
Marquette Law Celebrates National Poetry Month
Rebirth
She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor ‘Winter is dead” A. A. Milne
“You can’t be afraid and do your job.”
You can’t be afraid and do your job. Meryl Streep Bobby Bonilla used to smile every time he walked into the batter’s box. We do it like that.
Mudlarks United
I watched the American Bar Association’s recommendation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court. It all made sense. She’s highly qualified. We can all celebrate that she served as a public defender, tried civil rights cases, and served as a trial judge before being elevated. These are qualities that are historically underrepresented […]
In Defense of Jury Trials
The Jury consequently invests the people … with the direction of society. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America Yesterday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) used a lot of his time during the Ketanji Brown Jackson nomination hearing to champion the Constitutionally protected 7th Amendment right to a jury trial. He argued that SCOTUS, the Chamber of […]
Contrary Quotes (Stoics Edition)
By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Marcus Aurelius To pursue the impossible is madness: but it is impossible for evil men not to do things of this sort. Also, Marcus Aurelius I don’t know what to make of this.
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
Bruce Lee said it: strip away the distraction of things you don’t need and you make room for what matters. This principle applies to business and life as well as it does martial arts. This exercise may feel unproductive (it is not) – you can’t distinguish the wheat from the chaff while multitasking or juggling […]
Happy Day, Theodor Giesel (Dr. Seuss)!
With a kind request that you all … Keep politics out of my childhood memories
Last Leaf On The Tree
One lesson I continue to learn is the value of preparation and diligent research. The temptation to cut corners is a constant in modern life. Technology makes surrendering to rote copy and pasting even easier than when I was in school. It is never a good idea. President’s Day reminded me of a story about […]
A Morning Ritual
Benjamin Franklin’s Morning Routine included an acknowledgment of Powerful Goodness to start the day. This is the kind of intention we all need at the end of a long dark winter.