For those who are not basketball fans, the name Stephen Curry may not be someone you’ve heard about. Curry is a member of the Golden State Warriors professional basketball team. He is in another record setting season for points scored in a game. At age 28 he is averaging 30.5 points a game and 6.4 assists while shooting an average of 51% from the field and 46% from the three point range. To qualify for a three point shot in…
This Sunday’s New York Times article about a Texas candidate for the state board of education is an illustration about how human beings really make decisions and then justify them. Mary Lou Bruner, a 68 year old former kindergarten teacher, is running for an important seat on the Texas State Board of Education. Her Facebook posts reveal a strong anti-Obama, anti-Islam, anti-evolution and anti-gay bias. For example, she believes President Obama had worked as a gay prostitute in his youth, that the…
I know I’ve written about this before and that all of you agree, but the more I observe people in general and young lawyers in particular I think they are trying achieve success in the wrong way. Great trial lawyers become great not by learning skills and techniques, but by first learning about themselves and the changes of attitudes they need to make for greatness. Certainly, the first lesson is we have to be true ourselves. As Shakespeare wrote in…