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Legally Speaking: The Justie Awards of 2012
BrowningAnother year down, another year to look forward to the good, the bad, the ugly, and the just plain weird of the legal world. But before we get too deep into the start of 2013, let’s pause to...
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Legally Speaking: Love at first cite
BrowningThere are many problems with legal education, ranging from its costs to its lack of emphasis on the practical skills a school’s graduates will need in the real world to the comparative lack of...
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Legally Speaking: Lance Armstrong and the race to the courthouse
BrowningLance Armstrong’s long-awaited confession to Oprah Winfrey that he doped during his years of competitive cycling—years that saw him win the Tour de France seven times—will have far-ranging...
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Legally Speaking: Legal weirdness knows no borders
BrowningAs many readers know, many of my columns point out the stranger goings-on in our legal system, with an occasional sprinkling of the odder moments in civil and criminal cases in foreign...
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Legally Speaking: You always have the right to remain strange
BrowningLast week, we looked at some of the odder laws and lawsuits in courts around the globe. This week, however, we return home for a survey of some of the lighter moments in our legal system. The...
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Legally Speaking: They blazed a trail-The first African American lawyers
BrowningIn February 2013—African-American Heritage Month—it’s easy to grow complacent about the strides made by blacks in the legal profession. After all, the president of the United States is...
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Legally Speaking: Jury service — doing justice for Texas
BrowningAs a trial lawyer who makes his living in the courtroom, I know and appreciate the sacrifice made by the people in the jury box. For a pittance (jury compensation in Texas was raised a few...
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Legally Speaking: The lighter side of the law
BrowningSometimes, it seems as though the cases that move through the criminal and the civil sides of the legal system run from the sublime to the ridiculous. As strange as a lawsuit or a criminal...
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Legally Speaking: Free legal advice, from people who learned the hard way
BrowningSomeday, I’ll be tempted to write a book full of practical advice for young lawyers just starting out in their careers. But until then, I’m content to pass along some legal pointers from...
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Legally Speaking: Still more disorder in the court
BrowningThere seems to be a never-ending flow of weirdness permeating the justice system, as regular readers of “Legally Speaking” know. Strange litigants, odd lawsuits, bizarre crimes and even judges...
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Legally Speaking: Not your typical day in court
BrownThere are days when things proceed with the same dreary predictable pace in the legal world. Mundane pleadings are filed, arguments made dozens if not hundreds of times before are recited as if...
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Legally Speaking: Are faith and professional duty reconcilable?
BrowningRecently, a case came to my attention about lawyers embroiled in a national controversy. Defense attorneys were defending Catholic Health Initiatives, the owner of St. Thomas More Hospital in...
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Legally Speaking: Protecting the furry members of the family
BrownThe Texas Supreme Court recently ruled that owners of companion animals cannot recover non-economic damages from those who killed their pets. Whether it’s a motorist who hit your child’s adored...
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Legally Speaking: Who’s teaching your children? You might be shocked
BrowningThe recently-released movie “The Company You Keep,” directed by and starring Robert Redford, examines what happens when an investigative journalist reveals the hidden Weather Underground past...
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Legally Speaking: Maybe our teachers were right, after all
BrowningThe longer I practice law, the more I appreciate the importance of fundamentals—you know, the golden rule, “treat others as you’d like to be treated” kind of principles. In fact, when you...
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Legally Speaking: If only Hallmark had a card for this
BrowningAs I was picking out cards for Mother’s Day, I realized that there are so many occasions in life for which there simply is no greeting card—but maybe there should be. I can think of a few of...
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Legally Speaking: Will litigate for food
BrowningLaw firm consultants like to throw around terms like “value added billing” and “alternative fee arrangements” in describing creative ways for lawyers to be compensated by their clients. But...
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Legally Speaking: In memory of Dean John F. Sutton
BrowningIn the nearly 24 years that I’ve been practicing law, I’ve been fortunate enough to receive some accolades from my colleagues. A number of these have been for a commitment to legal ethics and...
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Legally Speaking: The case of the teeny weeny bikini and other legal weirdness
BrowningAny job can get a little boring, doing the same thing day in and day out—even when you’re a federal judge. I recently wrote an article about a federal judge who issued an order riddled with...
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Legally Speaking: Teaching what matters
BrowningAt a March dinner commemorating the 40th anniversary of the University of New Hampshire School of Law, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia gave a speech in which he proclaimed modern...
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