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Why storytelling isn’t just useful in trial – it is the trial. There’s a dangerous myth in law school – one whispered between hornbooks and caffeine fumes – that legal success lies in mastering facts, precedent, and procedure. As if law were a science of syllogisms. As if justice were a spreadsheet. But ask any…
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A Father’s Day Reflection from Chaos and Craft Let’s be honest: fatherhood has never been a clean or quiet pursuit. It’s not a series of wise parables gently dispensed over fishing trips, nor is it a Hallmark montage of sweater-folding and football catches in soft lighting. No. Fatherhood is being asked to assemble a 487-piece…
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Metallica. Wu-Tang. Theme parks. Senators. Parents. Clients. Verdicts. All in six days. Still think your week was busy? In seven days, I went from the front row of concerts to the front lines of advocacy – answering calls from injured clients between bass drops, senate strategy sessions, and coasters that defy physics and patience. I…
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Building Narrative Weight from Seemingly Mundane Objects There is a particular kind of arrogance that arises during early drafts, where we playwrights believe our themes will be obvious because we’ve written them in capital letters and made two characters argue about Nietzsche in the rain. They won’t be. What audiences remember – what they feel –…
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Dramatic Archetypes in the Legal World – and How to Counter Them Litigation, for all its procedural decorum, is theatre. There’s a script (your pleadings), a stage (the courtroom), a captive audience (jury or judge), and, most importantly, characters. Now, some attorneys enter the courtroom like extras in a background deposition scene – unmemorable, beige,…
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by Brian S. Brijbag, Esq. Every night, they came in droves – leathered, liquored, spiritually limber. Stadiums shook with the seismic sincerity of 80,000 people pretending they weren’t pretending. But in Section A, Row 12, upstage left of the main screen, just above the fourth subwoofer, there lived a pixel. A single, glowing, tremoring green pixel. It…
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(Or, why your unmarketable dream project written at 2 a.m. in a hoodie stained with Pad Thai might just be your magnum opus) Let’s begin with a premise no marketing team wants to hear: the idea that makes your friends tilt their heads and say “…Huh” might be the thing that actually works. I’m not…
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Love. Grief. Forgiveness. Time. The guy in the subway shouting about pineapples. The law demands order. The theatre invites chaos, serves it wine, and asks it to monologue. I live in both. One world expects exhibits, redactions, and polished shoes. The other celebrates gnomes on trial and emotional breakdowns that rhyme. But there are a…
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By Brian S. Brijbag, Esq. There’s something magical — and maddening — about the one-act play. Too short to waste time.Too long to just be a scene.Too finite to wander.Too powerful to be dismissed. A great one-act doesn’t feel like a short play. It feels like a complete world — one that opens, cracks, burns, and closes in…
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Because You Deserve a Meal That’s Done Before You Start Questioning Life Choices You’ve had a long day. Maybe you’ve been writing closing arguments.Maybe you’ve been arguing with fictional characters in a draft.Maybe you’ve just been existing, which is hard enough. And now it’s 6:43 p.m. and your fridge has ingredients but no promises. Let me…
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