Cordas v Peerless Transportation Co.

If I ever write an opinion, I hope it has this much flair. There for a second I forgot I was reading a casebook! 


Here is an excerpt from Justice Carlin's opinion in Cordas v. Peerless Trans. Co.

Returning to our chauffeur. If the philosophic Horatio and the martial companions of his watch were ‘distilled almost to jelly with the act of fear’ when they beheld ‘in the dead vast and middle of the night’ the disembodied spirit of Hamlet’s father stalk majestically by ‘with a countenance more in sorrow than in anger’ was not the chauffeur, though unacquainted with the example of these eminent men-at-arms, more amply justified in his fearsome reactions when he was more palpably confronted by a thing of flesh and blood bearing in its hand an engine of destruction which depended for its lethal purpose upon the quiver of a hair?

In other words, if those guys were scared of a ghost, how much more scared would you be of a guy holding you at gun point!? 

Goodbye, Steve Jobs

“I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.” - Steve Jobs

I Know The Feeling

Attn: October 2011 LSAT Takers

Over the weekend, thousands of law school hopefuls took the LSAT. I remember this time last year, showing up at the testing center with my plastic baggy full of "authorized items" and a stomach full of butterflies. 


As stressful as I thought that Saturday morning to be, it was cupcakes and unicorns compared to the war-zone I'm in now. 


I'm not saying this to scare you October LSAT takers, I'm telling you as a segue into this piece of advice: enjoy the remaining ten months of your life. 


Cherish them. Savor them. Seize them. Because this time next year, you will be yearning for thier return. 


That being said, congrats to everyone who took the exam and feels good about it. Everyone else, there’s always December!


PS: If you're looking for a good school. I know of one! Hint Hint. (Click here) 

Short-Term Marriage Contracts

I can't believe I'm saying this, but, I honestly think this is a great idea.

Legally speaking, I have no qualms with these "Short-Term Marriage Contracts." They're smart, efficient, and commonsensical. 

Your thoughts?

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'Bout Time Someone Said It!

“Attacking me is not going to convince me that I should take a bigger hit because I happen to be wealthy. … I’ve tried poor and I’ve tried rich and I like rich better, doesn’t mean I’m a bad guy. … I didn’t go into business to create a public policy success for either party, Republican or Democrat. I went into business to create jobs, to create opportunity, to create value for myself and my investors.” -BET Founder, Robert Johnson

Andy Rooney

As aspiring lawyers, we all appreciate attention to detail. But what I appreciate most about this video (click here) is not Andy's attention to the fine print, but rather the fact that all Andy had to do was pick up a newspaper to come up with a pretty good essay. 


I envy writers like Andy: concise, clever, commonsensical. 


Last night, as Andy closed out his final appearance on 60 minutes, he said this about the end: "Writers don't retire, and I'll always be a writer."  Amen to that. :-)