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Sep 22, 2025
Reflections on ‘mean judges,’ age and courtroom lessons
A trial lawyer reflects on mean judges, aging peers, courtroom lessons, and stories of smoking in court that shaped his legal career.
Top Legal News
- More states join legal challenge to Nexstar, Tegna merger
- Premature settlement may bar underinsured motorist coverage
- Attorney who led beagle farm raid says case will be ‘test for our legal system’
- Conduct a technology audit to improve law firm efficiency
- Revocation sentence vacated for failure to address mitigation argument
- US Supreme Court guts key provision of Voting Rights Act
- UNC tennis star Brantmeier settles with NCAA for $2 million over pre-college prize money rules
- NC Democratic lawmakers unveil bill to protect students from ICE and Border Patrol
- Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy to take over Custody Advocacy Program for children in high-conflict cases
- Group pleading defeats deliberate indifference claim against detention officers
- ‘Homewrecker’ lawsuits are legal in North Carolina. Here’s how it works
Commentary
- Conduct a technology audit to improve law firm efficiency
- When the client brings ChatGPT to the consultation
- Content Marketing: Where law firms lose referrals and how to prevent it
- Your best people are not leaving for more money — they are leaving because you stopped paying attention
- Best at Work Insights: The choice we’re making about AI
- New life for the noncompete
- 2026: The year of tech, both heroes and villains
- Beyond burnout: The case for workplaces where people thrive
- The December question every leader should anticipate
- How do parent corporations deal with Workers’ Compensation?
- Best at Work Insights: Don’t Import 996: Why America Should Reject Overwork Culture
- Law ‘n History: The beer, scandal and haunted mansion of the Lemp dynasty
