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Jodat!
When I’m traveling I like to take photos of great lawyer advertisements. Here’s one of my all-time favorites, from Bradenton, Florida. It’s for the Jodat Law Group, which apparently practices in the areas of automobile accidents and divorce. “Who’s that,” you ask? “Jodat!”
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In Memoriam: James Coyne King
I’m sad to have two memorials in two days. On Saturday, James Coyne King, one of the founders of my firm, Murphy & King, passed away after an illness. Jim started his career in public service, first at the IRS and then for several years in the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department. He practiced……
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Antonin Scalia
The first time I met Justice Antonin Scalia, who died on Saturday, was when he came to Princeton to give the Tanner Lecture in, I think, 1995. The lecture was on the inappropriateness (in Justice Scalia’s view) of judges applying their ordinary, common-law methods to the interpretation of our Constitution. Judges should approach our Constitution……
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The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Julian Assange Case
A few years ago, I commented on Julian Assange’s bid to win “diplomatic asylum” from Ecuador. As my post indicated, I’m not really sympathetic to Mr. Assange’s legal plight, and my view on that hasn’t changed since 2012. The case was recently in the news again as the UN’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention released……
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See Something, Say Something: Letters Blogatory On Trump
Readers abroad, you may not have heard the phrase, “If you see something, say something.” It’s something we here in the U.S. see all the time in public places and on trains and at airports. The idea is that if you see an unattended package on a seat in your train car, let the conductor……