To Tell the Truth

July 7, 2011 is official “tell the truth day.” I’d like to think that every day is the right day to tell the truth, but given the fact that my profession and my avocation are both basically built on the backs of lies (not to mention liars) I know better than to claim I’ve never told a fib. I might even have told some howlers in my day, though generally speaking I prefer to tell the truth. In light of today’s dedication to brutal honesty, however, permit me to share some possibly-inconvenient-and-probably-embarrassing truths I’ve been holding onto for a while

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Part of the Solution

While wading through the weeds this morning I had an opportunity to answer a work-related question for a friend.  (Related to my work, that is, not his.) He was glad to have the response, and I was glad to give it. Some people get frustrated or put out when friends ask work-related questions. I don’t (perhaps because my friends all show discretion and perhaps because I’m just not wired that way). In fact, when I get asked legal questions – even by people I barely know – I’m almost always happy to help when I can. It reminds me of

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Always Remember. Never Forget.

Most of us don’t read this nearly as often as we should, but there’s no better post I could make for Independence Day. Read. Think. Remember what this nation is founded on. The Declaration of Independence of the United States When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that

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