Evading jury duty seems harmless, right? Wrong! Not only are you interfering with the administration of justice, you are risking a $2,000 fine and possible jail time.  Jury duty is a civil obligation. States take the evasion of jury duty very seriously. When one agrees to enter a social contract and reap all the...

Donald Trump is certainly a controversial public figure. Some laud his hard-working, enterprising ideals, others think he is the worst thing to happen to America since the Mason-Dixon line. Regardless of what side of the argument one contends, Donald Trump is an interesting figure worth a few minutes of anyone’s time. One aspect that...

Dating back thousands of years, Themis (Θέμις) or her Roman counterpart, Lustitia, adorned the courtrooms of ancient Greece and Rome. Not much has changed, with the exception of one addition to the stately sculpture of Themis, a blindfold. Ancient Θέμις Themis is typically depicted as a tall, imposing woman with a scale in her...

It may surprise some to learn that Odysseus, the central character of The Odyssey, and a major character in the Iliad, was renowned for a form of lawyering in the ancient world, id est. counsel. It is said that Odysseus appeared to be an average man but exceeded all other men in counsel. When...

Something about studying the law hones legal students’ understanding of the human condition. Naturally, many of these students who are already intellectually gifted gravitate towards the arts. Indeed, the promise of making more money for less work pulls some great lawyers away from law and into the arts. Below are a few examples. Musicians ...