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The Perils of Doing Business With Your Client

Posted in Mundanities, Work, tagged , , on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

To all lawyer-folk who read this blog, here’s a great illustration for why we have an ethical rule on lawyers taking an ownership interest in their clients’ business.

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Eternal Justice

Posted in Devotionals, Intercession, Justice, Kingdom of heaven, Prayer, Religion, Restoration and reconciliation, Righteousness, Spiritual warfare, Thoughts on God, Work, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on July 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »

“your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” — Matthew 6:10
As a Christian who happens to be a lawyer, it’s been my practice to lift up the cases I handle in prayer. Rarely would I outright pray for victory. That would be shallow and self-serving. My more [...]

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A Future and a Hope

Posted in Religion, Thoughts on God, Work, tagged , , on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Today, my co-worker and I were commiserating about the demands of our job.  We consoled each other about the stress we were feeling, and the sometimes drudgery of having to meet deadlines and crank out brief after brief.  No one ever said the legal profession is easy.
The difference between my co-worker and I, though, is [...]

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The Big Picture

Posted in Work, tagged , , on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The ability to see the big picture is so important. Not that details are unimportant. I am borderline anal-retentive myself, so I can appreciate attention to detail. But details don’t exist in a vacuum. They are part of a larger matrix, an overall purpose. Losing sight of the purpose cripples [...]

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