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January 31, 2018
What has DJT wrought?
Below is a 24-hour Poll I pinned up today on Twitter. So far “Traditional Masculinity” is the top choice. But I’d disagree.
“Culturally-speaking, what part of American Life has the Trump Presidency so far helped the most?
Free Speech/Expression?
Traditional Family?
Traditional Masculinity?
Conservatism Generally?”
Posted by JD Hull at 09:58 PM | Comments (0)
January 25, 2018
Is “Lawyer Professionalism” Just Another Lawyer-Centric Dodge?
Reprinted from a 2005 "Law Week edition" of The San Diego Daily Transcript, here's "Professionalism Revisited: What About The Client?", written by one of our spunkier U.S. trial lawyers. Note that the piece ends with "rules of professionalism"--but from the client's perspective. Excerpts from Rules 1, 5 and 6:
1. We come first. Be nice--but if in doubt, use the rules. If you feel you know the lawyers you are dealing with, we will follow your advice and instincts. If you are in doubt about the lawyers, or if it might compromise us to deviate from the formal procedural rules, please stay close to those rules.
5. If you have, or would like to have, a personal relationship with opposing counsel, that's fine, but don't let the relationship hurt us--the client. We don't care as much as you do about your maintaining or developing collegiality with other lawyers in your jurisdiction; in fact, we could not care less.6. If opposing counsel shows animosity toward you for following the procedural rules and keeping things moving, that is tough. This is not about the lawyers. We hired you to represent us. We would like you to get this done. Again, as your client, we seldom think that aggression and persistence are "unprofessional".
Posted by JD Hull at 12:31 AM | Comments (0)
January 24, 2018
Practical Twitter?
The best and most redeeming thing about Twitter?
You can Experiment.
Experiment with:
1. Words.
2. Ideas.
3. Relationships. In other words, your “Social Reach.” You collide or bond with people you otherwise would not meet. A New Breadth.
Let’s keep using it that way.
Posted by JD Hull at 03:31 PM | Comments (0)
January 14, 2018
Two years ago at WAP?: I was born John Daniel Hull IV but I now want to be called...
From our post on January 14, 2016:
Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt (b. May 27, 2006)
Mega-talented actors and Hollywood power couple Brad Pitt and Angelia Jolie have a very beautiful daughter named Shiloh, who is 8 years old. For the last two years, Shiloh has asked her parents to call her "John". Which I support from a human rights perspective. Plus hey that's my real first name, too. Fine selection, sweetie. Anyway, Shiloh recently wore a kick-ass little boy's suit to a screening. Which is also fine with me. Her parents have indicated that Shiloh/John may indeed identify with the male gender--or, at a minimum, be gender neutral--and will support her in any course she takes. Bravo Pitt and Jolie for setting this example. What's not to like here?
This may be the right time to let you all know that I think of myself as a black woman activist. That's right, a crusading Afro-American female with a passion for civil and human rights. It's been going on for some time now. This identification may be due to my Washington, D.C. roots (I was born just blocks away from the neighborhoods where Duke Ellington grew up and the poet Langston Hughes lived for many years) or maybe the fact I covered the community civil rights beat for my college's daily newspaper. Or that two of the three law review articles I wrote in law school concerned, respectively, the subjects of housing discrimination and federal voting rights. But no matter how it happened, I do need to come clean. This is my moment. From this point forward, I would like you to call me the following: Shanona Janae Angela Davis Harriet Tubman Hull.
Thanks for your understanding. More to come.
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