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A love letter to those who lose with flair and win without needing to. Every spectacle needs a scaffold. Every hero, a hinge. Every five-star match requires someone willing to take the fall – with grace, timing, and just enough existential pizzazz to make defeat look like destiny. Enter: the jobber. You know them. You
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Structuring a Closing Argument Like a One-Act Play The difference between a good closing argument and a forgettable one is the same difference between a standing ovation and a bored cough in row B: structure. Not evidence. Not emotion.Structure. Because whether you’re pleading for justice or staging a one-act in a black box theatre with three
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Where the citations weep, and the subtext sues for emotional damages This is not a poem. Not in the traditional sense. There is no meter here, no rhyme, no stanzas. Just a body of text so plain, so devoid of soul, it could’ve been written by the IRS. And yet – beneath it – buried
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A meditation on holding professional gravity and creative chaos in the same breath I wore a tie to a deposition this morning and quoted Foucault to my kid at lunch. Both acts felt subversive. Let’s begin with the obvious: contradiction is not a flaw in the system. It is the system. I’m a trial lawyer who writes
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Justice gets great press. Poets call it divine. Statues hold it blindfolded. Protesters chant for it. Superheroes allegedly fight for it, though you’ll notice none of them ever have to argue a motion to compel. But here’s the truth that makes law students twitch and philosophers sigh:Justice isn’t a feeling. It’s a filing deadline. It’s
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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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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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