Defending People

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The Club

Mark Bennett | June 6, 2009

Gerry Spence spoke today at the end of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association’s annual Rusty Duncan Seminar. I could see why they put Gerry last—if he spoke first, most of the lawyers talking about lawyer stuff would seem largely irrelevant or quaintly unself-aware.
One speaker, for example, advocated telling jurors who gave “good” answers on [...]

I Wouldn’t Hire Your Kine.

Mark Bennett | June 1, 2009

There’s an interesting online discussion between late-Gen-X Adrian Dayton and Boomer Scott Greenfield. Adrian, in Get Out of My Face, says, “Generation Y wants their life to mean something. They want to handle work that is significant, and they certainly don’t want to crank out the billable hours reviewing non-urgent documents on a Saturday afternoon [...]

Memo to Future Lawyers

Mark Bennett | December 26, 2008

Don’t go to Marquette Law School.
According to David Papke, law professor at Marquette Law School,
We don’t want law school to be lawyer-training school. When we cave in to demands of that sort from the ABA and assorted study commissions, we actually invite alienation among law students and lawyers. Legal education should appreciate the depth of [...]