Ipse Dixit: Ruminations on a Career at Law
- Publisher:
- Full Court Press
- Publication date:
- 2023-08-21
- ISBN:
- 9781949884715
About the author
Foreword
Front Matter
Interviews
- Interviews
- A Candid Conversation With Judge E. Gordon West
- A Conversation With Calvin Hardin
- Getting to Know Federal Court Judge Frank Polozola
- Portraits and Perspectives: An Interview With Camille F. Gravel
- Portraits and Perspectives: A Look at Us: Marian Mayer Berkett: A Life and Law Career of "First" for This People's League Cofounder
- Interview With Judge Guy Holdridge: "What I've Learned . . ."
- Interview With Charles S. McCowan Jr.: "What I've Learned . . ."
- One on One With Mike Patterson: Incoming President of the Louisiana State Bar Association
- Interview With Frank A. Fertitta: "What I've Learned . . ."
- Interview With Daniel R. "D.R." Atkinson Sr.: "What I've Learned . . ."
- Interview With Judge Robert Burns Sr.: "What I've Learned . . ."
- Interview With Cordell Haymon: "What I've Learned . . ."
- Interview With Louis D. Curet: "What I've Learned . . ."
- Interview With Emile Christian Rolfs III: "What I've Learned . . ."
- Interview With Mary Olive Pierson: "What I've Learned . . ."
- Interview With Judge Freddie Pitcher Jr.: "What I've Learned . . ."
Lawyering
- From the Other Side of the Desk: The Client's Perspective
- War Story: My Most Embarrassing Day in Court
- Legalets
- Ipse Dixit: New Year's Resolutions for Lawyers
- Leisure: The Ultimate Toy
- Top 10 Things to Do While Sitting Through a Deposition
- Ipse Dixit: A Kinder, Gentler Court?
- Ipse Dixit: From Whence We Came . . .
- Ipse Dixit: Gee, It's Good to Be Back Home Again
- Ipse Dixit: Prodders and Plodders
- Ipse Dixit: Road Trip!
- Ipse Dixit: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (With Apologies to Author Robert Fulghum)
- Ipse Dixit: Bashed but Unabashed
- Trial Notebook: Common Evidentiary Problems at Trial
- Bashed but Unabashed—Redux
- From Whence They Came—Redux: New Rules
- Ipse Dixit: The More Things Change . . .
- Ipse Dixit: It's Really Not My Problem, But . . .
- Ipse Dixit: Chief Justice Kitty: A Personal Reflection About a Personable Person
- Stop the Whining! Effective Oral Argument
- Ipse Dixit: Rant
- Ipse Dixit: From Socrates and Gutenberg to Newsweek and Around the Bar? A Word From a Reluctant Luddite
- Ipse Dixit: Civilian Aphorisms
- Ipse Dixit: . . . oh, by the way . . .
- Ipse Dixit: The File on the Floor
- Ipse Dixit: Three Decades of Around the Bar—300 Issues!
- Ipse Dixit: You Might Be a Lawyer . . .
- Ipse Dixit: Things I Wish I Learned in Law School
- Ipse Dixit: New Words (or Definitions) That Should Be in Black's Law Dictionary but Aren't
- Ipse Dixit: A Plaque on Your House (With Apologies to William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 1)
- A Gathering of Eagles . . . and 2 Buzzards
- Ipse Dixit: Big Data
- Ipse Dixit: One Piece of Advice
- Ipse Dixit: The Difficult Client
- Ipse Dixit: Apocrypha
- Ipse Dixit: Columbus Took a Chance
- Ipse Dixit: Driving Miss "Peterbilt"
- Ipse Dixit: All "Tied" Up
- Ipse Dixit: So, Who Do You Trust?
- Ipse Dixit: Game Worth the Candle?
- Ipse Dixit: Mockingbirds Don't Have Canaries
- Ipse Dixit: Transitions
- Ipse Dixit: From Anacoco to Zwolle
- Ipse Dixit: Via Crystal Ball, Law Practice in 2040
- Ipse Dixit: How to Write Good
- On the Sunny Side of the (2020) Street
- Ipse Dixit: Measure Twice, Cut Once
- Ipse Dixit: It's About Time
- Ipse Dixit: New Year's Resolution Matrix
Preface
Selected Seminar Presentation Papers
- "What Was That Last Exhibit Number?" Or the Top Ten Tips on How to Be (or at Least Look) Organized in the Courtroom
- Do I Want This Case? Why? What Will I Need to Prove? How? . . . And What's It Going to Cost? Analyzing the Merits of a Personal Injury Case
- Professionalism in the Courtroom
- Opening Argument . . . er, I Mean Opening Statement