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Posts Tagged ‘Janet Linn’
Lawyers playing the thug
Based on a account in the Rockwall Herald-Banner: Given the public’s (false) impression that lawyers are both well educated and regulated by some strict code of behavior you’d think it would be difficult for a lawyer to cross the line during an actual proceeding. The account says [...]
On lawyers: “If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck”
A lawyer, according to Black’s Law Dictionary, is “a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law.”[1] …... Working as a lawyer involves the practical application of abstract legal theories and knowledge to solve specific ind[...]
Lawyers as Thugs: One Man’s Approach
If you’re willing to look a monster in the eyes, you just might find that he has no teeth. There are all kinds of lawyers …. civil right attorneys, lawyers hired by corporations to limit rights of employees, corporate lawyers who protect corporate rights at the expense of others who can not [...]
Is that a cop’s job?
Do Cops in Wealthy NY Suburbs Get Paid to Make Intimidating Phone Calls ? I have long been accustomed to threatening letters from lawyers, but a threatening call from a cop was something quite new: Sunday afternoon I was watching a documentary about Nat Turner and the slave rebellion of 1831 when I [...]
Academic Arrogance: of profs and lawyers
The philosopher Foucault pointed out that knowledge and power are so intimately related that we cannot really think about them separately. Sadly, Foucault missed the point shown by the career of Herman Knowsitall. Often. especially in business. peope in power .. the bosses .. insist that they know[...]