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By Brian S. Brijbag, Esq. Let’s be honest. The Fourth of July isn’t about hot dogs or flags or whatever color bomb Pop Rocks your aunt duct-taped to the backyard fence. It’s not even about freedom in that vague bumper-sticker way we toss around like lawn darts after a few beers. The Fourth of July…
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Why attorneys and shamans both use rhythm, repetition, and robes – and who does it better. Let’s start with the robes. Because if you’re going to call upon unseen forces, you might as well dress for the occasion. Attorneys and shamans, on the surface, have little in common. One files motions. The other smokes them.…
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One knows the power of silence. The other interrupts it with a spreadsheet. I’ve worked with both. I’ve sat in rooms with freshly pressed suits and PowerPoint decks loaded with action items, quarterly projections, and slides titled things like “Growth Levers.” I’ve also been in green rooms with theater kids covered in stage makeup, drinking…
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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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