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Last night I was reviewing case law to decide which arguments I want to make in support of a motion I'll be filing this week.  I was get...

Allude/elude To allude to something (or make an allusion, below) is to mention it indirectly.   Elude means to escape from something.   E...

I've talked before about the importance of being respectful to your adversary and the court and avoiding charged language.  This lawyer ...

Happy New Year! Since this is bowl week, I thought a football-themed post was in order.  This newspaper teaser line in the Weirton Daily T...

In a case recently decided by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge J.L. Edmonson agreed with Judge Ed Carnes in upholding the ...

In speech, we often refer to a company as "they."  This makes sense, at least to some degree, because a company is run by people, ...

“Etc.” is an abbreviation for the Latin phrase “et cetera” which literally means “and other things.”   It is appropriately used when discus...