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One of the benefits of foreign travel and time away is a much-needed sense of perspective. Struggling with a foreign tongue, struggling to see from a different perspective, being steeped in different mores: These are all good things. Even moreso, if, as my wife and I did on our recent trip, you...

I've received private notes and a few public comments asking why I have picked an unnecessary fight with Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College. One infuriated loyalist calls me obsessed, a soul in so much pain I cannot let it go. Another wants to know simply what happened to cause such...

I originally posted a splenetic piece that was great fun to write. It was too much fun to write, frankly; sort of like running a race against a one-legged man. It was critical of a lawyer whom I have never met and who apparently took a few shots at me. I've decided to pull the vitriole. What's the...

Regular readers of this blog know something it takes the rest of you only minutes to learn: I am gullible and sometimes a fool. I've been taken in the past 24 hours. So have some of you.
A writer going by the name of Jimmy Jones has posted on these pages. The writer is familiar with the inner...

The anonymous comments on this blog raise interesting questions: Who is sending them? What agenda is being served in each instance? I often don't comment on anonymous posts. Why bother? But one did catch my eye today.
A writer going by the name "John" raised an interesting point about former...

Make mine XXL:
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Yes, I am spiteful, a man of unclean lips, a sinner, too. But this is just too funny to let pass. It is a mirror for the righteous souls who claim I have unfairly scorned a great institution.

"Why bother?" a friend asked the other day after reading my post about the financial arrangments supporting Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College in Wyoming. Alumni of the college have called for my expulsion from the tribe; some are reduced to mere fighting words, taunting me as an attention seeker...

Whither Joane Garcia-Colson?
I wrote about Joane's departure from Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College a few days ago. She was executive director for the past nine years. Rumor has it she fled the ranch under a cloud, taking with her a fat severance package. I wondered whether her departure was...

I hate to say this, for fear of what it will attract, but anonymous hate mail is good for the soul. I get a piece from time to time. Receiving it is sort of like an atheist's trip to a confessional. I spin through all the folks who've left a foul taste in my mouth, and wonder who among them recalls...

I am sad enough to weep tonight, and I may do so. As night falls in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, I am holed up in a hotel awaiting an early flight back to Connecticut tomorrow. For the past two days, I've been back at the ranch, visiting with friends at the Trial Lawyers College. I went there to honor a...