William W Bedsworth

December 28, 2020 | The Recorder

Here's what I learned about TikTok: I am even older than I thought.

By William W. Bedsworth

8 minute read

September 09, 2020 | The Recorder

There was a time when being cooped up and forced to watch every episode of "Tiger King" would have been considered an Eighth Amendment violation. Now it's standard operating procedure.

By William W. Bedsworth

8 minute read

August 26, 2020 | The Recorder

I was unfailingly impressed with how hard jurors worked and how desperately they tried to do the right thing. They aren't perfect—any more than the doctors and bridge-builders and airline pilots to whom we daily entrust our lives are perfect.

By William W. Bedsworth

9 minute read

July 01, 2020 | The Recorder

As soon as women perfect in vitro fertilization, we guys are gonna be as useless as the proverbial mammary glands on a porcine male.

By William W. Bedsworth

9 minute read

May 18, 2020 | The Recorder

In which our columnist contemplates the facts underlying litigation which generated the headline: "Bottle-rocket-shot-out-of-anus lawsuit settled."

By William W. Bedsworth

8 minute read

March 30, 2020 | The Recorder

It's been my practice to make occasional efforts to say things that will relax the attorneys before me. Relaxed people perform better than nervous ones. But that doesn't work with telephonic oral arguments.

By William W. Bedsworth

8 minute read

March 03, 2020 | The Recorder

While the words "library" and "battlefield" rarely show up in the same sentence, this is one of those times

By William W. Bedsworth

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February 07, 2020 | The Recorder

The law is a strange profession in that it attracts people with big egos and then reduces them as surely as hammer and chisel reduce stone.

By William W. Bedsworth

10 minute read

January 09, 2020 | The Recorder

I know nothing about Artificial Intelligence. Nothing. Nada. Zip, zilch, bupkis. The "A." might as well stand for "Alien."

By William W. Bedsworth

7 minute read

December 26, 2019 | The Recorder

If the federal courts want to hog all the really good cases, I'm prepared to step aside. As long as they hold onto one's like 'United States v. 1855.6 Pounds of American Paddlefish Meat and 982.34 Pounds of American Paddlefish Caviar' as well.

By William W. Bedsworth

9 minute read