Interpreted by Dan Ruisi Comment on meurt is a collection of five short stories by Émile Zola. It means “how we die.” Zola explores the manner of death of five people, all occupying a different place on the socio-economic ladder. The general theme is that poor people, or people who are in true love, have…

My client says lawyers are scratching their heads at the SCOTUS decision in AWF v. Goldsmith, but I learned a lot from this lawsuit when it was still a circuit case. Lynn Goldsmith, the photographer whose image of Prince is at the center of AWF, at some point put words to her philosophy of shooting…

People say “this was the scariest…” a lot, but I mean it. Getting lost in the forests of the Pacific Northwest was the scariest thing that ever happened to me. We were on an official trail when we came upon a huge tree that fell down and blocked it. We went off the trail to…

What’s my overall impression of the legal system, you ask? Well it began with an assumption in pre-Plantagenet England that has survived a thousand years to govern our lives in 2023. It seems logical that two parties fighting each other would produce something, but it doesn’t seem logical that it would be the truth. I…

Those were sort of the words of my General Biology professor as she put up an image of one molecule of HIV protease. It was red in this model, and poetically or not, several parts of it were flat and formed long ribbons. At least, that’s what I thought in 1995. The lecture is etched…

Whenever there is a Supreme Court decision, it means I’ll have to rush some work so that my client’s hot take is out first. One of my “supreme” clients has been watching the Warhol case in particular — we had written about how Warhol’s work “scored” on the fair use test after the circuit split.…

Several of my clients have been working with me for over a decade, and our relationships have evolved considerably in that time. It’s like, in the beginning, we all recognized that friends spill the beans to other friends. My current job supplies me with clients who are so high achieving that sometimes I wear a…

It is so tempting to just want to clear something up over email, but it’s really the worst platform for doing edits to a document. It seems to happen whenever there is something different about the lead up, like incorporating the feedback of a guest blogger. If a communication k-hole starts to develop between you…

I am once again tasked with writing about an Ed Sheeran court case, but this is a different one. It’s still over Let’s Get It On (LGIO), because it turns out there are nine different owners of the song. The musical elements are different in this suit — I had to learn about drums and…