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The Changing Face of Body Language
As the daughter of an Army Drill Sergeant, I grew up around Fort Jackson, SC. We shopped at the PX, attended the Roman Catholic church on base, bought 29 cent gasoline and went to the movies for a quarter. But the place I seemed to spend most of my time ...
Grammar & Composition 101
I have read a number of first time reports sent to me for review by new LNCs. In the strictest sense, all of these reports were accurate representations of fact. In the literary sense, some were disasters. When you compose a consultative report for an attorney, assume your reader is someone ...
Do I Have your Attention?
I don’t know – do you have mine? I was strolling through Costco a few days ago (if I miss a week the staff become anxious) when I overheard a young man speaking at a moderate volume into his earphone. He was speaking, but he was not listening. He was providing ...
Deadlines and commitments…what to leave in…what to leave out (“Against the Wind”; Bob Segar)
I know the legal theory behind the statute of limitations, but there is another reason that has nothing to do with the law. It has to do with human nature. Apparently, most of us were born with a dominant procrastination gene that expresses itself at every opportunity. Given the option of ...
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February 28, 2013
I’ll take jurors for 100, Alex
Jurors are called upon to make incredibly important decisions, and while they may be instructed to “stick to the facts”, those facts can be difficult to parse out. Both sides will argue for their client, and they will use every weapon from accusation to rationalization to “make their case”. A ...
Sleep is good. Work is good. Working without sleep…not so good
Sleep and work. We spend more time doing these two activities than anything else in life. The need for a good night’s sleep is evident in the number of medications, therapies and sleep aids that promulgate the market. But we do not need advertising to tell us what we already know ...
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