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December 23, 2016 (Fault Lines) — A Texas police officer has asked a provocative legal question that only a lawyer can address: under Texas law, can an adult man choke a child for littering? We here at...

December 16, 2016 (Fault Lines) – Earlier this week, Caleb Kruckenberg wrote about criminal lawyers and the life they live. It’s an interesting post. It reveals a problem in both the law and life, but it’s...

August 3, 2016 (Fault Lines) — For criminal defense lawyers, it’s our favorite piece of advice, our default, our go-to: just shut up. We write about shutting up incessantly. When we speak about representing clients it’s one...

May 11, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — I don’t want to sound like a broken record.  (That is a metaphor which the post  CD generation probably doesn’t use, but think of Frank Sinatra and 78 and 45...

Feb. 1, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — The Carrington opinion, filed January 29 by the Tennessee Supreme Court, answered what appears at first blush an asinine question for any Supreme Court to consider.  When is a person...

Apr. 2, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — It was a wild week at the intersection of investing and intellectual property, with four big litigation-induced moves in some names that we have been monitoring for a while. Welcome...

Mar. 18, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — To no one’s surprise, Stephen Kim didn’t get a sweet deal like Gen. David Petraeus.  Their crimes were similar, Kim giving a Fox News reporter a classified report on North Korea...

Mar. 16, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — With more and more people hopping on the anti-vaccination bandwagon, Scott wonders if this is an instance where parents’ constitutional rights should take a back seat to public safety. Main...

Mar. 11, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — Steve Blundell, Managing Director at Redstone Consultants, talks with Lee Pacchia about how the market for law firms’ services in Africa is growing due to the maturation of economies within...

Mar. 10, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — Not that it was hard to see coming, and some of us did a long time ago, but if it wasn’t here before, it’s here now. At Small Business Trends,...