In an out-of-the-way hallway of our law firm are some shelves with long-unused, leather-bound volumes of US Supreme Court reporters from the 1800s. Here’s a pic of one of them.
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For bibliophiles out there, the aesthetics of an old law book will be appreciated: tobacco-colored; nicked and ...
You know the difference: the speaker who tediously repeats stuff (repetitious) vs. the one you mentally thank for going over the point again (repetition). Psychological studies show that a point can get lost without some repetition; but that too much is a turn off. The funny TV commercial that remains funny when moderately repeated can get ...
Ever heard it said: “in light of all the surrounding circumstances”? Courts, judges and lawyers use it all the time. Law doesn’t stand alone. It has to be applied in a real-world context. Legal context influences perception and outcome.
Context is also key to color. Color theory is one of the most interesting areas of arts education and ...
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”
Nelson Mandela, who died yesterday at 95, was a lawyer. No one in his family before him had ever attended school, yet his intellect took him to law school and his courage led him to set up a ...
Many of Ohio's county courthouses are architectural gems, located in the center of small towns, like the Clinton County Courthouse in Wilmington where legal work took me this morning. The rural drive and first dusting of snow was a scenic start to the day, with the visual highlight being this beautiful rotunda in the courthouse. Below were lights ...
ArtWorks is an awesome non-profit organization (I’ve mentioned here before) that does incredible public mural paintings on sides of buildings in Cincinnati. Their annual Secret ArtWorks show, this Friday at 5:00 at the Center at the Mercantile Building, 115 E. Fifth St., is really fun and includes hundreds of miniature works of art for sale ...
Today is the 150th Anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, a masterpiece by a master craftsman of the language of democracy. In Cincinnati’s Lytle Park stands a statue of Lincoln, dedicated on March 31, 1917 at an outdoor ceremony attended by 20,000 to hear an address by William Howard Taft who, like Lincoln, was a former President and ...