by Keith Lee | Book Reviews
I’m always looking for ways to improve my own writing – legal or otherwise. I think my writing is pretty good (I was number one in legal writing in my class for what it’s worth), but I know I have a long way to go to get it to “great.” Therefore I follow a...
by Keith Lee | Book Reviews
A couple weeks ago I was at my local bar association’s annual Bench & Bar conference and had the chance to meet Richard Jaffe, a highly-respected criminal defense lawyer here in Birmingham. We had both been invited to present our books at the conference and...
by Keith Lee | Book Reviews
This past week, I was pleased to receive a copy of Kevin Underhill’s new book The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance: And Other Real Laws that Human Beings Actually Dreamed Up. I’ve been looking forward to reading it for some time as Lowering The Bar is...
by Keith Lee | Book Reviews
This past week I received an advance review copy of Life After Law: Finding Work You Love With the J.D. You Have, by Liz Brown. Brown is a former litigation partner at a large international law firm. She graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. She...
by Keith Lee | Book Reviews
If you spend any time around lawyers, you’ll realize very quickly that they love to tell war stories. Every lawyer has them. It’s often a competition to see who can better the other. “I was in a depo and the opposing counsel started making lewd...
by Keith Lee | Book Reviews
I recently received a review copy of the second edition of Brian K Johnson & Marsha Hunter’s The Articulate Attorney: Public Speaking for Lawyers. Johnson & Hunter get right to the point of the matter with their very first sentence: People expect...
