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Share For decades and maybe longer, gun rights enthusiasts have sought to end the gun control argument with the following statement: “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.” This is technically true. It is also meaningless. Of course, guns don’t kill. And pencils don’t make spelling errors. So what? Not a single assassin of a United States president has [...] Share This week I had the honor of speaking at the DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, sponsored by their remarkably vibrant and inventive Family Law Center. I was joined by Lester Munson, a senior sportswriter and legal analyst at ESPN. Munson is funny, blunt, opinionated, and apparently a big part of the conscience [...] Share “Presumed Innocent” was perhaps the one book that led me more than any other into law school and prosecution. In it, Scott Turow describes “Brownian Movement,” the apparently random collision of particles in the air, resulting in a hum that children can sometimes hear before the bones of the inner-ear harden in puberty. Turow’s character, a [...] Share “Though we share so many secrets, there are some we never tell.” William Martin (Billy) Joel He called it “The Stranger” and titled a 1977 masterpiece after it. In my business we sometimes refer to it as the “third persona” with a nod to Jungian psychology. A persona is simply a mask, the figurative one we [...] Share Roughly 2000 years ago an itinerant rabbi gave a sermon about light. The right thing to do with a lamp, said the rabbi, was to let it shine, not put it under a basket. That made sense in a time where light after sunset was a luxury; hence the parable. And of course, in the [...] |
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