Persuasion
Courthouse pollution is a manageable obstacle that never needs to sap strength
Pollution in the courthouse battlefield and everywhere else, is a manageable obstacle that never needs to sap strength. With that, today I jotted down the following thoughts: High vibration and light can disinfect, neutralize and transmute crud.
The wind of a prosecutor’s condescending words
One day I was speaking with a taijiquan teacher about yelling people. He replied: “Why try to figure them out? It is just wind.” That advice is great for staying powerfully calm and unrattled in the face of someone exploding in an unjustified tirade. However,...
Persuading as just folks, without the airs of Hermes ties and gold cufflinks
One day during my year working for New York City’s Irving Trust commercial bank before starting law school, I walked into Tiffany’s in Manhattan on a Saturday to buy a friend a wedding gift, figuring I’d get a crystal bowl or some other doo-dad under one hundred dollars,...
Those meant for trial work will feel invigorated rather than exhausted by the battle
A recent online law firm article points out that a reason for lawyers to reject a potential litigation client is to weigh the potential benefits of the litigation against the exhaustion and the harm on a lawyer’s family relations that can come from the intense energy,...
All Battlefields Present the Possibility of Success
Plenty of people expend enormous energy avoiding toxic people, toxic situations and air pollution. However, even when we least expect it, we will have many trying times involving physical and even mental health issues, relationships with others, and generally dealing with the world around us....
Trial battle and all battle includes a need to realize maximum potential, and transcending funks
Fairfax convictions with former rogue cop Jonathan Freitag may get reversed, with chief prosecutor Fairfax convictions with former rogue police officer Jonathan Freitag are in line for the chief prosecutor to seek to undo them. As a Virginia criminal lawyer, I am thankful that former...
Kindness in judges and all others is powerful, not weak
Defending results for his Kindness in judges and all others is powerful, not weak. Those who do the opposite are either fearful of their weaknesses or else ill-taught. Praised be the judge who not long ago pondered why many in the audience stood upon his...
Using humanity rather than lawyering in dealing with clients and others in distress
Most of my clients feel disharmony and even distress to one extent or another, some to the point that they obsess daily about their cases. A few are angelic at all times, apparently even when I am not around, understanding that the past has already...
Transcending anger and roles to persuade on the soul level
A dog does not betray anyone. Humans have the ability to betray, and too many people betray others. A dog does not form sinister plans, but too many humans do. A dog does not lie; too many humans do. Maybe that helps explain why so...
Judges as both fallible and potentially excellent
Judges are not deities. They are humans. They are selected through a combination of some or all of the following: Meritocracy, vetting for ability (with various sorts and quality of vetting), political considerations, and elections by the public. Even some of the most promising-seeming judicial candidates...