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Achieving victory through dancing through life – Fairfax criminal lawyer
Achieving victory in court and beyond can be like a gladiator fight, like the law of the jungle. I know this as a Fairfax criminal lawyer. Plenty of great civil lawyers have told me that they simply could not do criminal defense themselves, with all...
Benjamin Pang-jeng Lo – My greatest martial arts teacher passes
Benjamin Pang-jeng Lo was my greatest martial arts teacher. Recently, I learned that Ben passed away on October 12, 2018. He was ninety-one. Benjamin Pang-jeng lo- A giant of a human being Ben (here teaching t’ai chi ch’uan in the only YouTube video I have...
Taijiquan relaxing -sinking – dissipating rather than feeling stress – Fairfax lawyer
Fairfax criminal lawyer on relishing the courtroom battlefield experience. Taijiquan relaxing and sinking is the key way that I remain powerfully calm in even the most otherwise trying situations in and out of the criminal courtroom. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that the...
Winning criminal cases with martial arts & contemplative practice
Winning criminal cases for the defense requires ability, knowledge and experience by the criminal defense attorney. As a Fairfax, Virginia criminal lawyer, I repeatedly crystallize my ideas about the path to court victory, including the benefits of martial arts and contemplative/mindfulness/meditative practice.
Veterans Day & when to sheathe and unsheathe weapons in criminal court
On past Veterans Days, I have warned against overglorifying the military, and about the human weaknesses and errors that bring war atrocities and other abuses of military power. Today, I will address some better and more humane ways of fighting, both with the military and...
Living more powerfully and happily by transcending anger and embracing wonder
Everyone gets angry, at least sometimes. Anger, rooted in fear, is weakening and even debilitating. However, it also is debilitating for us to beat up on ourselves for getting angry, and to beat up on ourselves for anything. We must continue on the positive and...
The courtroom persuasiveness of a powerfully respectful approach backed by strength
When a client urges the necessity of my destroying an opposing witness on cross examination, I respond that the backlash from destroying the opposing witness can be much more harmful than my telling the defense story through cross examination, bringing out important evidentiary points, and...
“Nothing gets lost”- We pick ourselves up and keep fighting
Michael Jordan’s famous Nike commercial reminds people going to battle — whether on or in the court — the necessity of maximizing the chances of winning, and of finding a way to become stronger even from defeats. Being mortal, even apparent superhumans cannot guarantee a...
Even one ounce of anger or tension can miss the winning opportunity
Yes, the world is filled with too many people too often acting like heartlessly dangerous people. Part of my job is to defuse, shrink, disintegrate, disinfect, and deflect the unseemly and dangerous actions of others, and to extract the gold that can even be found...
On neutralizing hecklers, and overcoming purported home court advantage
In the courthouse, plenty of prosecutors, cops and other opposing witnesses try to heckle, but where does that really get them when the real test is in the courtroom, where heckling is hard to get away with before the judge, and when the cops no...