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I sometimes have trouble explaining to clients that there really is no such thing as the State of Connecticut. The concept is an abstract noun, a legal fiction. The state is something akin to a necessary placekeeper in a vast equation. Like God, it is ever present and always absent.
But it...

Lawyers who travel from one state to another impress me, but I can't help but wonder if they are effective in foreign courts. So much is nuance in a courtroom.
I keep making the rounds of the same old cities in my tiny state to try my cases: One month it might be Bridgeport, another it might be...

Thanks to all the callers and writers who have expressed interest in meeting to discuss trials and lawyering in locales other than Wyoming or under TLC's embroidered thunderbolt. In the past few days, I've learned of interest throughout the country, and of incipient planning for group meetings in...

The comments I've received on the TLC pieces appearing here come in all shapes and sizes. I leave the vitriolic defense of the college to others. But there is a groundswell of longing in some of the notes and calls, a longing for days past, when the college was a laboratory for ideas. These were...

I originally posted a splenetic piece that was great fun to write. It was too much fun to write, frankly; sort of like running a race against a one-legged man. It was critical of a lawyer whom I have never met and who apparently took a few shots at me. I've decided to pull the vitriole. What's the...

Quite a few folks have sent me emails privately commenting on the Trial Lawyers College pieces that have appeared here. What follows is one that was sent by someone who wishes to remain anonymous. The writer worries that if their identity were known, friends would shun the writer. That seems sad,...

Trial lawyers are story tellers. The great ones are master story tellers. And the best stories, the stories that resonate deepest in the minds of ordinary folks, are folk tales, also known as fairy tales. I have a hunger to review the tales we tell our children to learn what I can about how better...

When things go bump in the night at Yale University it becomes national news. I've never really understood why that is the case, but I have been sucked up in the maelstrom of Yale-related hype: More than a decade ago, I found myself on Good Morning America wondering why the prosecution of a young...

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It has yet to be announced, but the Trial Lawyers College is reportedly poised to increase the price of weekend regional seminars located throughout the United States from $1,475 to $1,699, an increase of 15 percent. Expect a price increase in the more popular summer programs in Wyoming...