A few weeks ago I found a book of poems, Poems of Pleasure, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox in a small book store in Port Townsend, WA. I was prowling around the shelves of old books when my eye caught this book. Originally published in 1888 this book had the name Graci E. Merrill August 24, 1921 written in an elegant penmanship inside the cover.I like Wilcox’s poetry so I bought this book which I had not seen before. One poem…
My friend Dennis Donnelly, a great plaintiff’s trial lawyer from New Jersey, sent me a message aboutJohn McCain’s answer to an inquiryfrom the New England Journal of Medicine’s aboutmedical reform.Here is McCain’s answer.Any Plaintiff’s trial lawyer voting in this election should carefully read what he said: "Our tort system is an invitation to endless, frivolous lawsuits bytrial lawyers who exploit patients and physicians alike. I understandthat the fear of lawsuits not only forces doctors to perform unnecessarytests but also often…
I like everything professor of Cognitive Science George Lakoff (University of California, Berkley) writes. His latest book The Political Mind should be required reading for all trial lawyers. I am working on an outline of his ideas and will present some of them here in the future, but a few of the concepts follow. Most of our thought, an estimated 98%, is not conscious. It is below the level of consciousness. It what our brains are doing that we cannot…