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  1. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1750-03-24), The Rambler, No. 2

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/20042…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #advice #awareness #counsel #education #error #information #mistake #reminder #teaching #willfulignorance

  2. #counsel : professional advice

    - French: conseil

    - Italian: consiglio

    - Portuguese: conselho

    - Spanish: consejo

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    Try our new word guessing game @ 24hippos.com

  3. Some very funny lines in this article about a federal judge who denied having sex WITH A COP in her judicial chambers, for over two years, where her clerks could hear them!
    [SPOILER: she got a slap on the wrist & was only identified by Bloomberg news.]
    #all #rise #gavel #bang #dodged #bullet #JDVance #sofa #stain #analysis #Duke #mayo #chambers #loveseat #litigation #judge #criminal #civil #blackmail #risk #judicial #counsel #federal #case #investigation #flips #cushion
    abovethelaw.com/2026/05/federa

  4. The chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Jens Spahn, has reportedly nominated Martin Plum for the role of the faction's new legal advis... news.osna.fm/?p=44401 | #news #cducsu #counsel #groups #lead

  5. A quotation from Thomas More

    But doubtless Plato was right in foreseeing that unless kings became philosophical themselves, they would never take the advice of real philosophers, drenched as they are and infected with false values from boyhood on.
     
    [Sed bene haud dubie praeuidit Plato, nisi reges philosophentur ipsi, nunquam futurum, ut peruersis opinionibus a pueris imbuti, atque infecti penitus philosophantium comprobent consilia.]

    Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
    Utopia, Book 1, ch. 1 “Discourses of Raphael Hythloday” (1518 ed.) [tr. Adams (1992 ed.)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/83253/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasmore #utopia #advice #advisors #corruption #counsel #inculcation #king #philosopher #philosophy #ruler #upbringing

  6. A quotation from Thomas More

    But doubtless Plato was right in foreseeing that unless kings became philosophical themselves, they would never take the advice of real philosophers, drenched as they are and infected with false values from boyhood on.
     
    [Sed bene haud dubie praeuidit Plato, nisi reges philosophentur ipsi, nunquam futurum, ut peruersis opinionibus a pueris imbuti, atque infecti penitus philosophantium comprobent consilia.]

    Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
    Utopia, Book 1, ch. 1 “Discourses of Raphael Hythloday” (1518 ed.) [tr. Adams (1992 ed.)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/83253/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasmore #utopia #advice #advisors #corruption #counsel #inculcation #king #philosopher #philosophy #ruler #upbringing

  7. A quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson

    You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
    Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

    More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #emerson #ralphwaldoemerson #advice #busybody #control #counsel #duty #imposition #interference #others #perspective #requirements #responsibility #selfdirection

  8. A quotation from Horace

    Whene’er you lecture, be concise: the soul
    Takes in short maxims, and retains them whole:
    But pour in water when the vessel’s filled,
    It simply dribbles over and is spilled.
     
    [Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta
    percipiant animi dociles teneantque fideles:
    omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 335ff (2.3.335-337) (19 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/33634/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #advice #brevity #briefness #counsel #edification #keepitsimple #lesson #maxim #moral #moralizing #precept #succinct #teaching #wisdom

  9. #counsel : mutual advising

    - French: conseil

    - Italian: consiglio

    - Portuguese: conselho

    - Spanish: consejo

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    Try our new word guessing game @ 24hippos.com

  10. #counsel : mutual advising

    - French: conseil

    - Italian: consiglio

    - Portuguese: conselho

    - Spanish: consejo

    ------------

    Try our new word guessing game @ 24hippos.com

  11. "The court recognizes, sua sponte, that defendant's counsel is an asshole."

    #SuaSponte #counsel #defendant #asshole

  12. "The court recognizes, sua sponte, that defendant's counsel is an asshole."

    #SuaSponte #counsel #defendant #asshole

  13. But I've seen some outside of an educational context as well. This one is absolutely horrific. It's another case of a #lawyer using an LLM to generate #court filings of one type or another, without even checking its output to see if the brief makes sense, cites actual case #law, etc.

    This is a #sanctions order from a #judge in this particular case. It is gripping reading.
    cases.justia.com/federal/distr

    In short: the lawyer was caught submitting briefs with "hallucinated" #citations, either to cases that did not exist, or to cases that were unrelated to the legal point the citation was being used to uphold. An opposing #counsel contacted their firm about such an incorrect citation, and the firm did some cleanup, did some continuing legal education, instituted an "AI" policy, instructed the #attorney about what was forbidden, etc. And then that attorney ... just kept on doing it. Even after judges started noticing problems in submissions, this lawyer just kept doing it.

    It was so bad that it basically caused the #implosion of the law firm.

    Incredible.

    2/2

  14. But I've seen some outside of an educational context as well. This one is absolutely horrific. It's another case of a #lawyer using an LLM to generate #court filings of one type or another, without even checking its output to see if the brief makes sense, cites actual case #law, etc.

    This is a #sanctions order from a #judge in this particular case. It is gripping reading.
    cases.justia.com/federal/distr

    In short: the lawyer was caught submitting briefs with "hallucinated" #citations, either to cases that did not exist, or to cases that were unrelated to the legal point the citation was being used to uphold. An opposing #counsel contacted their firm about such an incorrect citation, and the firm did some cleanup, did some continuing legal education, instituted an "AI" policy, instructed the #attorney about what was forbidden, etc. And then that attorney ... just kept on doing it. Even after judges started noticing problems in submissions, this lawyer just kept doing it.

    It was so bad that it basically caused the #implosion of the law firm.

    Incredible.

    2/2

  15. How Jack Smith’s strongest case against Donald Trump collapsed

    Seeking to get the classified documents case to a jury before the 2024 election, the special counsel made a fateful decision that some in his office saw as a misstep.

    archive.ph/zLbuW

    #Crime #Criminal #President #Trump #Justice #Injustice #DOJ #Classified #Prosecutor #JackSmith #DavidRaskin #Counsel

  16. How Jack Smith’s strongest case against Donald Trump collapsed

    Seeking to get the classified documents case to a jury before the 2024 election, the special counsel made a fateful decision that some in his office saw as a misstep.

    archive.ph/zLbuW

    #Crime #Criminal #President #Trump #Justice #Injustice #DOJ #Classified #Prosecutor #JackSmith #DavidRaskin #Counsel

  17. #counsel : mutual advising

    - French: conseil

    - Italian: consiglio

    - Portuguese: conselho

    - Spanish: consejo

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    Try our new word guessing game @ 24hippos.com

  18. #RobertSMuellerIII, the former special #counsel on Trump Russia was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease 4 yrs ago.
    Since he has difficulty speaking and has mobility issues he won’t be able to testify this week on the Epstein investigations.
    nytimes.com/2025/08/31/us/poli

  19. A quotation from Gene Fowler

    I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it, I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

    Gene Fowler (1890-1960) American journalist, author, and dramatist. [b. Eugene Devlan]
    Skyline: A Reporter’s Reminiscence of the ’20s, ch. 8 (1961)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/fowler-gene/78389/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #genefowler #advice #counsel #error #experience #failure #learning #makemistakes #mistake

  20. A quotation from Gene Fowler

    I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it, I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

    Gene Fowler (1890-1960) American journalist, author, and dramatist. [b. Eugene Devlan]
    Skyline: A Reporter’s Reminiscence of the ’20s, ch. 8 (1961)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/fowler-gene/78389/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #genefowler #advice #counsel #error #experience #failure #learning #makemistakes #mistake

  21. Its too hot outside so I've been doing some #emacs hacking porting #counsel-compile to a #casual #transient interface: github.com/stsquad/casual/comm

    It's been a bit of a learning curve as I'm not familiar with the philosophy of the transient #API and #vibe coding with an #llm fails hilariously because this is a super niche of a niche. Any tips on how to save a set of arguments on a per-project basis would be appreciated. #hothacking

  22. Its too hot outside so I've been doing some #emacs hacking porting #counsel-compile to a #casual #transient interface: github.com/stsquad/casual/comm

    It's been a bit of a learning curve as I'm not familiar with the philosophy of the transient #API and #vibe coding with an #llm fails hilariously because this is a super niche of a niche. Any tips on how to save a set of arguments on a per-project basis would be appreciated. #hothacking

  23. “We are seeing very quick turnaround with certain cases,” Ms. Méndez said, adding that the lack of #access to #counsel raised serious concerns about #DueProcess violations.

    She said that federal #immigration agencies had refused to release to lawyers the alien identification numbers of the people who had been detained, making it difficult for the lawyers to locate their clients in the federal database that is used to track #immigrant detainees.

    #Trump #law #injustice #CivilRights

  24. “We are seeing very quick turnaround with certain cases,” Ms. Méndez said, adding that the lack of #access to #counsel raised serious concerns about #DueProcess violations.

    She said that federal #immigration agencies had refused to release to lawyers the alien identification numbers of the people who had been detained, making it difficult for the lawyers to locate their clients in the federal database that is used to track #immigrant detainees.

    #Trump #law #injustice #CivilRights

  25. A quotation from Judith Martin

    Being listened to should be sufficiently gratifying in itself, whether or not the advice is followed.

    Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
    “Miss Manners,” syndicated column (2014-05-11)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/76874/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #missmanners #advice #attention #counsel #listening

  26. #counsel : mutual advising

    - French: conseil

    - Italian: consiglio

    - Portuguese: conselho

    - Spanish: consejo

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    Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ wordofthehour.org/r/form

  27. #Comer: We’re going to bring the physician in… we’re going to have #RonnyJackson there to #counsel us

  28. A quotation from Will Rogers

    Advice can get you into more trouble than a gun can.

    Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
    Column (1933-08-20), “Weekly Article: Don’t Get Excited,” No. 556

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/rogers-will/76269/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #willrogers #advice #counsel #helping #meddling #patronization #trouble #unsolicitedadvice

  29. #counsel : mutual advising

    - French: conseil

    - Italian: consiglio

    - Portuguese: conselho

    - Spanish: consejo

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    Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ wordofthehour.org/r/form

  30. #Scene: a well-dressed man working at a desk in an office with floor-to-ceiling glass and a view of the city.

    [phone rings twice before he picks up the receiver]

    Man: Ken White, general #counsel.

    [pause]

    Man: Hello? Is anyone there?

    [Someone responds. The voice is obviously electronically disguised, but sounds male. He speaks ominously.]

    Caller: We have her.

    Man: What? Who has who?

    Caller: ... We have your wife.

    Man: Is this a joke? Who is this?

    Caller: This is the guy who has your wife. She didn't make it to work this morning.

    Man: What? Why?

    [Man picks up his cell phone and starts texting his wife. He sends "Everything ok?"]

    Caller: She's fine, and you can help keep her that way.

    Man: What are you talking about?

    [Phone dings with a reply text. It just says "I told you we have her."]

    Caller: Ransom, Mr. White. I know exactly what you're worth, and you're going to follow my instructions and send it all to me.

    [White looks scared and horrified]

    Man: You #kidnapped my wife? For #ransom?

    Caller: Yes, Mr. White.

    [pause]

    Man: You don't know what you've done - I'm glad I'm not in your shoes. Good luck!

    [White hangs up]

    --

    Thus starts an escape-and-revenge #action #movie with a 40-ish suburban woman as victim-turned-predator, who takes down every one of the #perps herself, messily and with great enjoyment. Think "Atomic Blonde"-grade kick-assery without the spy pretensions.

    [With apologies to @Popehat ...]

    #FemaleActionHero

  31. #Scene: a well-dressed man working at a desk in an office with floor-to-ceiling glass and a view of the city.

    [phone rings twice before he picks up the receiver]

    Man: Ken White, general #counsel.

    [pause]

    Man: Hello? Is anyone there?

    [Someone responds. The voice is obviously electronically disguised, but sounds male. He speaks ominously.]

    Caller: We have her.

    Man: What? Who has who?

    Caller: ... We have your wife.

    Man: Is this a joke? Who is this?

    Caller: This is the guy who has your wife. She didn't make it to work this morning.

    Man: What? Why?

    [Man picks up his cell phone and starts texting his wife. He sends "Everything ok?"]

    Caller: She's fine, and you can help keep her that way.

    Man: What are you talking about?

    [Phone dings with a reply text. It just says "I told you we have her."]

    Caller: Ransom, Mr. White. I know exactly what you're worth, and you're going to follow my instructions and send it all to me.

    [White looks scared and horrified]

    Man: You #kidnapped my wife? For #ransom?

    Caller: Yes, Mr. White.

    [pause]

    Man: You don't know what you've done - I'm glad I'm not in your shoes. Good luck!

    [White hangs up]

    --

    Thus starts an escape-and-revenge #action #movie with a 40-ish suburban woman as victim-turned-predator, who takes down every one of the #perps herself, messily and with great enjoyment. Think "Atomic Blonde"-grade kick-assery without the spy pretensions.

    [With apologies to @Popehat ...]

    #FemaleActionHero

  32. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Kedric Payne, senior director of #ethics at the nonpartisan Campaign #Legal Center & fmr deputy chief #counsel in the Office of Congressional Ethics, adding that the goal was probably to pressure #Deloitte into firing the worker. “You can’t imagine that if one employee out of thousands made a statement that offended an official, that then the #government #contracts would be in jeopardy.”

    #Trump #revenge #politics

  33. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Kedric Payne, senior director of #ethics at the nonpartisan Campaign #Legal Center & fmr deputy chief #counsel in the Office of Congressional Ethics, adding that the goal was probably to pressure #Deloitte into firing the worker. “You can’t imagine that if one employee out of thousands made a statement that offended an official, that then the #government #contracts would be in jeopardy.”

    #Trump #revenge #politics

  34. Per MSNBC | Glenn Kirschner

    Opinion | #Trump’s latest #admission on #FoxNews is great news for Jack #Smith

    Just days after special #counsel Jack Smith obtained a superseding #indictment against former President Donald Trump for attempting to #overturn the 2020 #election the former #president claimed in a Fox News #Interview that he had “every right” to do so. The question now is: can that public #statement be used against him at #trial The answer is yes.

    .

  35. Per MSNBC | Glenn Kirschner

    Opinion | #Trump’s latest #admission on #FoxNews is great news for Jack #Smith

    Just days after special #counsel Jack Smith obtained a superseding #indictment against former President Donald Trump for attempting to #overturn the 2020 #election the former #president claimed in a Fox News #Interview that he had “every right” to do so. The question now is: can that public #statement be used against him at #trial The answer is yes.

    .

  36. A #Venezuelan govt controlled bank in #Miami was embattled in a #shareholder court case with #political implications that challenged directors of the #banking empire connected to the #Maduro regime. A #jury found on June 27 that two directors breached their fiduciary duty of care to the bank and hit them with a fine, but a fraction of the $27 million sought by #litigants. “The jury only awarded damages amounting to less than 3% of what the plaintiffs were seeking—$800,000, instead of the $27 million requested at trial. That’s essentially a slap on the wrist from the jury,” said defense #counsel Evan Stroman, a partner at #DiazReus.

    “Any day where you help prevent an illegal authoritarian regime in #Venezuela from penetrating the United States banking system and hold those accountable for assisting that regime is a good day,” Derek E. León, the #plaintiffs' attorney, said.

    law.com/dailybusinessreview/20

  37. A #Venezuelan govt controlled bank in #Miami was embattled in a #shareholder court case with #political implications that challenged directors of the #banking empire connected to the #Maduro regime. A #jury found on June 27 that two directors breached their fiduciary duty of care to the bank and hit them with a fine, but a fraction of the $27 million sought by #litigants. “The jury only awarded damages amounting to less than 3% of what the plaintiffs were seeking—$800,000, instead of the $27 million requested at trial. That’s essentially a slap on the wrist from the jury,” said defense #counsel Evan Stroman, a partner at #DiazReus.

    “Any day where you help prevent an illegal authoritarian regime in #Venezuela from penetrating the United States banking system and hold those accountable for assisting that regime is a good day,” Derek E. León, the #plaintiffs' attorney, said.

    law.com/dailybusinessreview/20

  38. Serious question.

    What is a no-cost resource for #counsel #advisory about how to secure one's #intellectualproperty rights in the context of forthcoming release.

    Oh. Is that what they mean by software patents? #softwarepatents

    I don't know that software patent is relevant.

    @Vivaldi
    I know nothing of sofware dv, law, copyright, etc. Never cared.

    I'm a former music industry dude however, so i might know a little about #copyright already.
    :D

  39. Featured company from @socallinuxexpo Linux Expo OSJH-OSCD Job Board: With the mission to unite data and empower users, @grafana is seeking technical and non-technical professionals to join its team. Search jobs now on opensourcejobhub.com/company/4

  40. Featured company from @socallinuxexpo Linux Expo OSJH-OSCD Job Board: With the mission to unite data and empower users, @grafana is seeking technical and non-technical #OpenSource professionals to join its team. Search jobs now on #OSJH opensourcejobhub.com/company/4 #jobs #SCaLE21x #OSCD #OpenSource #engineer #sales #legal #counsel #career

  41. #WhiteHouse #counsel #EdSiskel sent a letter Fri morning to #House #Speaker #MikeJohnson, urging him to close the #impeachment inquiry into President #Biden following an investigation that has stretched for more than a year & has yet to uncover clear evidence of wrongdoing.
    #HouseRepublicans #law
    washingtonpost.com/politics/20

  42. #WhiteHouse #counsel #EdSiskel sent a letter Fri morning to #House #Speaker #MikeJohnson, urging him to close the #impeachment inquiry into President #Biden following an investigation that has stretched for more than a year & has yet to uncover clear evidence of wrongdoing.
    #HouseRepublicans #law
    washingtonpost.com/politics/20

  43. Jurors found that #LaPierre "violated his statutory obligation to discharge the duties of his position in good faith."

    They concluded that he had caused ~$5.4M worth of #harm to the nonprofit group's finances — though they also found that LaPierre had already repaid roughly $2M.

    LaPierre sat in the courtroom looking on as the #jury #verdict was read.

    The lawsuit also named #NRA general #counsel & secretary #JohnFrazer, & fmr CFO Wilson #WoodyPhillips.

    #law #legal #guns #GunControl

  44. "You could tell...that it was not an actual or authorized certificate of votes.…It was a fake," said Dan Schwager, who was general #counsel for the secretary of US #Senate in 2020.

    Schwager took the stand on the 3rd day of preliminary examinations for 6 of the 16 #Michigan #Republicans who signed the false certificate on Dec 14, 2020. AG #DanaNessel's office is pursuing #felony charges, including #forgery, against the Republicans whose names appeared on the doc, which was used by #Trump

    #law

  45. “Thus, for the reasons stated herein, I hereby order that all #counsel are prohibited from making any public statements, in or out of court, that refer to any confidential communications, in any form, between my staff & me.

    “Failure to abide by this directive shall result in serious #sanctions.”

    .
    #law #Trump #Engoron #Kise #Habba #TrumpTrial #PoliticalViolence #MAGA #Cult #TrumpDavidians #DomesticViolentExtremists #DomesticTerror

  46. With the #ACC Annual Meeting coming up next week, I am working up this year's #newsletter! But if you want to catch-up on last year's news, check out lnkd.in/eACDW5v3

    #ContractPodAi #ACCAnnual #Counsel #InHouseLawyers #LegalTech #LawFedi