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My daughter, who shall be granted anonymity here, sent an email moments ago from New Zealand relaying that all is well. I am contacting Interpol to see if I can have her grounded and placed on house arrest!
We are among the lucky ones this time.
Thanks to all for the...

My daughter, who shall be granted anonymity here, sent an email moments ago from New Zealand relaying that all is well. I am contacting Interpol to see if I can have her grounded and placed on house arrest!
We are among the lucky ones this time.
Thanks to all for the...

It seems like a long, long time ago that I first received word of this week's earthquake centered in Christchurch, New Zealand, but a woman I love, my daughter, was in the vicinity. I cannot help but wonder the way fathers do about her safety and welfare. But thus far not a word.
The folks...

Odds are she is fine. The overwhelming odds are she will return home with stories to tell, a braver and wiser young woman now for having witnessed catastrophe, catastrophe that befell others. Always others.
But it’s been long hours now since the Earth buckled in South New Zealand....

I don’t know if Muskegon County Prosecutor Tony Tague is a humorless prick. He might just be stupid. Or mean. Or perhaps he is a representative of the kind of government we want, and therefore deserve. But one thing is certain: Mr. Tague met his match in Evan Emory.
Emory is a...

The financial press was agog this week with reports that the New York Stock Exchange had reached a three-year high. Life is looking good for those with a stake in the big board. But what about the other America? How are residents of the subterranean continent living beneath the media’s radar...

So who was William M. Kunstler, after all? Watching the movie two of his daughters, Sarah and Emily Kunstler, released about the man, Disturbing the Universe, raises more questions than it provides answers. In the end, however, I think the answer is simple: Kunstler was a lawyer, a criminal defense...

I spend a good deal of my time each week driving from one courthouse to another. But I don't mind. I listen to college courses on I Tunes U. This evening I write to recommend a class.
David Blight's Civil War and Reconstruction is brilliant. Or, more to the point, Blight is brilliant. The...

Joshua Komisarjevsky will go down swinging. There’s little doubt he will be convicted of a dozen or so major felonies, including capital felonies, for his role in the 2007 Cheshire home invasion. And there is little doubt he will be sentenced to death. His trial is the second bite of a by now...

The Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog carried a piece last week about the vanishing trial. I don’t know what the author is talking about. I try ten to twelve jury trials a year, year in and year out. And I do it in a state in which the manner of picking juries is time-consuming and...