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Legal Beagles 101
Have you ever seen the 1973 movie The Paper Chase? The movie is, among other things, about the rigors of law school. In the movie, the students live in fear of being interrogated in front of their Contract Law class by the legendary and demanding Professor Kingsfield. Below is a clip from the movie which shows this process in action (it’s about three minutes long).
Before you know it, we won’t need Congress at all; we’ll just have judges make the laws in this country.
Since October 2018, we’ve worked on getting a new roof, seeking compensation for a driveway that was seriously damaged in the effort, and finally filing for a judgment to get money back that we’d spent to repair the driveway. My husband took on most of the tedious work to collect evidence, file the case, and appear at mediation. He used the best of his engineering skills and charm to do it.
As a matter of probability, the next president is likely going to get several cracks at Supreme Court appointments. As a matter of certainty, he or she is going to have scores of appointments to make to lower federal courts. All of which raises a question: how exactly do you pick the right person?
