https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/06/june-8-roundup-4/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 21 Jun 2013 05:30:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/06/june-8-roundup-4/comment-page-1/#comment-221207 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 05:30:23 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=37694#comment-221207 […] the honorable Judge Edith Jones” [@andrewmgrossman on this Andrew Kloster piece, earlier here and here] […]

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/06/june-8-roundup-4/comment-page-1/#comment-219169 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:30:21 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=37694#comment-219169 […] you find it hard to believe opponents would gin up flimsy “speech-gave-offense” charges against Fifth Circuit Judge Edith Jones, recall the […]

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/06/june-8-roundup-4/comment-page-1/#comment-218899 Sat, 08 Jun 2013 18:22:40 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=37694#comment-218899 Does anyone take those motivational speakers seriously or remember their message more than a day? My former employers once hired Nancy Austin, co-author of “A Passion for Excellence”, as a speaker. In her book, she called reserved parking spaces at workplaces “a near-mortal sin” because they are a way of putting employees who don’t get them in their (unreserved) place. The next day I saw workmen painting new reserved parking places in the company parking garage. Ms. Austin and other motivational speakers might sincerely mean the things they say, but does it ever bother them that no one believes a word of it?

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