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"The Jury was out for several days. That's when the Joker's mother put the curse on me. She walked around me - staring at me - mumbling. I was fascinated - then her husband - Joker's father told me that in actuality he had been with his son at...

So, I wrote a blog a few years ago about this criminal lawyer in montreal in the late 50's - the only one I "knew" because he advertized in the Montreal Gazette with a photo of himself. I put up a photo of a generic lawyer which wasn't the real ralph a. cohen and i've...

Crowded elevator - on the way down stopping at every floor getting more crowded at every stop. elevator stops on third floor and an older obviously "homeless" guy wrapped up in a blanket squeezes his way in. he looks at this sexy but professionally dressed young woman...

"It's my Life, you know." I've heard this same phrase over and over again over the years from my clients. "Oh really? Is that what you think? You just happen to be wrong about that."

Overheard on the elevator - 2 lawyers talking about their clients - the first says - "the problem with my guy is when he gets to state prison he's gonna want to be alpha dog and somebody is going to take him out".Other lawyer says: "well my guy's no sweetheart...

Ralph A. Cohen was the criminal defense attorney that everybody knew in Jewish Montreal in the 1950's. He'd ride in his Cadillac Eldorado convertible up Cote Ct Luc blvd with his bald shaved head and always stopped for hitchhikers. He...

Remember in Lawrence of Arabia when he goes back across the desert they have just crossed to rescue his Arab buddy who fell off his camel and Omar Sharif tells Lawrence not to bother cause "IT IS WRITTEN" (that the guy is toast) and Lawrence...

 Attorney are always "conducting discovery". First time I heard this term I thought wow, this is deep - a secret rite. Now I know it's just the DA giving you the police report. So much for mystery.

Judge says something I don't understand. Heard the words but I couldn't understand what it meant. Something about procedure. She's getting impatient with me because I don't understand. The DA walks over to me and whispers in my ear. "I don't...

 A criminal lawyer I know cited a case to persuade a judge to try his client separately from the other defendants - of course this is done all the time but the interesting thing about the case that he used was that it was a Federal case and it...

I’ve been thinking about ways to increase my business which is lousy. I came up with PRE-NEED LEGAL SERVICES. This is for the common citizen. Of course the Mafia and Big Business & Big Government have always had these services but what...

I'm in court almost every day of the year and above the judge in every single courtroom of California is this State Seal. I only ever notice it when the judge reads Jury Instructions to the jury. When I looked at it recently it really threw me....

Oh we brave few - that's the feeling I get trudging up to the attorney lounge at noon after the morning session in trial which is usually a losing one and seeing all the other lawyers sitting around - or even lying around; most just waiting -...

I am at Twin Towers jail waiting for my guy. Through the glass of the visiting area I see, all of a sudden, 20 deputies with helmets & shotguns & protective gear appear in the open area outside the cellblocks. And then they swoop down...

Being a lawyer is similar in one respect, at least, to being a cab driver. You got to hustle for fares. When I drove cab I used to sit in the cab in the middle of the night with my finger on the two way motorola radio listening intently for the...