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New York Law Journal

A Call To Bring Sacred Values Into the Fabric of a University

While religious beliefs and sacred notions are often suspect and even radioactive in the elite academic intellectual world that typically prefers aloof enlightenment attitudes, Sexton boldly pushes against that bias.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

U.S. District Judge Frederic Block Bares His Soul in New Book

Crimes and Punishments: Entering the Mind of a Sentencing JudgeBy Frederic BlockABA Book Publishing, Chicago, 210 pages, $34.95Describing the…
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Help Responding to Issues Over Evidence That Arise at Trial

Unanticipated evidentiary issues often arise during trial. How litigators deal with unexpected evidentiary issues will make all the difference. Litigators must be ready to object quickly and to respond to objections quickly.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Beyond the Bravado: Some Lawyers Are Scared to Death

Confident leaders of the bar will learn of a world few of them know exists, where highly intelligent and outwardly accomplished students and lawyers suffer internal turmoil moored in an insidious sense of inadequacy.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Contemplating the Larger Than Life Impact Judith Kaye Had on NY Courts

The memoir portion of the book is both engrossing and guarded. It was written in Kaye's final years after she became afflicted with the lung cancer that eventually took her life. Looking back from the high hill of her mid-seventies, she realized that the time to write about your life is when the end is near, beginning the story when you know the end.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

John Marshall Biography Shows How Nation Landed in Good Hands

It is a compact Horatio Alger-like story of the youngest and relatively unheralded member of the esteemed company of founders.
16 minute read

New York Law Journal

John Roberts Jr. Portrayed as Judge Who Draws Ire of the Left and Right

This book provides an excellent foundation upon which to build the public's understanding of the man who is already proving to be one of the most consequential chief justices in history.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Political Battles for an Apolitical Branch

Michael Bobelian's Battle for the Marble Palace reminds us that the judicial appointment war did not begin with Bork but started at least 20 years earlier, with the appointment by President Lyndon Johnson of Associate Justice Abe Fortas to succeed Earl Warren as chief justice.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

How Sandra Day O'Connor Became the First Woman Supreme Court Justice

Evan Thomas has written what should prove to be the seminal biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, a trailblazer who wielded tremendous power on the court as the master of the elusive middle ground.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

A Newspaper Lawyer's Press Pass Through History

The president's fake news-enemy-of-the-people rhetoric, a well-worn tool of authoritarian leaders, has clearly polluted American democracy. At the very least, it has shoved Americans deeper into their tribal corners.
6 minute read

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