Blog posts, published columns, and conversations - perspectives on litigation, leadership, and the profession.
Twenty years in a courtroom teaches you things that don’t fit in a brief. The blog is where some of that goes. The published columns and Q&A are where the more formal thinking lives.
Two conferences in consecutive weeks, and I seriously considered skipping both. After more than twenty years, I know what I get out of these events. This one is for the lawyers early in their careers who aren't sure a day away from the office is worth it.
We hear a lot about building good habits. But in a profession as unpredictable as litigation, I rely less on doing things automatically and more on protecting routines, starting with the hold days I keep so there is time to actually think. Falling out of a routine doesn't mean you failed at it. You just put it back on the calendar and begin again.
I promised myself I would write every week, then being a full-time trial lawyer, a wife, and a mom made that harder to keep than I expected. We reevaluate cases as the facts change and call it good judgment. I am not sure why we are so reluctant to do the same with our own lives.
Monthly President's Column in Arizona Attorney Magazine during the 2021–2022 State Bar presidency, plus an oral history for the Arizona Bar Foundation.
The cases that stay with me are the ones where a family came in overwhelmed and left with some sense of resolution, not just legally, but emotionally.
Read full answer →Judgment. Knowing what actually matters in a case and having the discipline to let go of everything that does not is genuinely rare.
Read full answer →The honest answer is that I still love the courtroom. Trial is where everything comes together. That opportunity never gets old.
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