Defending People

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Mark Bennett | July 16, 2008

John Wesley Hall brings to our attention a new article: Fred Zacharias, Fitting Lying to the Court into the Central Moral Tradition of Lawyering, 58 Case West. L. Rev. ___ (2008).
Professor Zacharias focuses on what he calls Professor Monroe H. Freedman’s “most interesting illustration” of circumstances in which zealous representation might “require a lawyer to [...]

Blog or Government Propaganda Tool?

Mark Bennett | March 8, 2008

Is it just me, or should a blawg contain some original content?
I’d added David Finn’s Dallas Federal Criminal Defense Lawyer “blog” to my reader because I defend federal criminal cases in Dallas and because I’ve heard of David (and am acquainted with his partner, George Milner III). It’d been on my list for a few [...]

Mean Girls in the Blawgosphere!

Mark Bennett | January 19, 2008

I wrote recently about “Mean Girls” in the courtroom — lawyers (in my example, older female prosecutors, but Mean Girls can be any age or gender). Now we have Mean Girls in the practical blawgosphere (would it be uncharitable for me to suggest that AHCL accidentally brought the Harris County DA’s Mean Girls with him [...]

Practical Blawgosphere Wiki

Mark Bennett | December 20, 2007

Several denizens of the practical blawgosphere have started a wiki for the practical blawgers. Please check it out, and begin editing it to add other practical blawgs, and other fields of practice, to the catalog. Editing instructions are here.