Note: The following excerpts are from You Are Not a Lawyer Anymore: A Primer for Those Who Want to Be a Good Judge (2018). They appear here with the permission of the author. The book’s foreword states tha...

“Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.” ― T.S. Eliot Great poets are able to discover great truths – as long as they use language wisely. For example, Mr. Eliot’s ob...

I reread cases I hadn’t looked at since law school. I reviewed law review articles and blog posts. I honed my PowerPoint and teaching notes to perfection. All of that was important, but when I traveled ...