The best Biographies of Lawyers & Judges eBooks: Reddit reviews

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You want some stats on lawyers having drinking problems?

Seriously though, I've never met a lawyer that didn't know how to drink professionally.

Hey, not really related to this subject, but I've been telling people to read The Tyrannicide Brief by Geoffrey Robertson for years. It seems totally up your alley, so I'd be curious what your take is on it, if you don't mind? (Assuming you're familiar with it)

It was terrifying. The market goes down most days; sometimes it has a brief rally then sinks just as your hopes are up. As time goes on, months and years of declines, the time when the market went up every day seems like forever ago. Maybe things really are different this time; that's been true for other countries. Japan has had a stagnant stock market for three decades, why not here? We've had a Great Depression, after all.

Job and income play a part: Once I lost my job at the same time the market dropped. Another time I watched as too many friends were laid off, and big employers froze hiring. It's not easy to keep shoving money in a dwindling market when you may need the cash next month to pay rent. Or eat.

Even the people who believed in the market and buy-and-hold begin giving up.

I strongly recommend reading The Great Depression: A Diarty by Benjamin Roth, a lawyer who wrote the diary as things happened without knowing when, or if, they would get better. There's a heavy focus on economics: the stock market, bonds, employment, things like that. It's eye-opening.

I was really hoping there would be a good answer from one of our native experts. Not sure if this is allowed in a top line comment, but I'd recommend The Tyrannicide Brief if you want to learn more about the trial of Charles I. It's well written and very approachable as an amateur.

Sure, if you want I can call it a House of Horrors instead.

Thread reminded me of: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0811YS3TB/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1

Really good book (as well as his first one) - with great big section covering reasonable force and how papers love to lie to you about it.

Educational, entertaining and feeds that little burning fire of rage in your soul.

The Trump virus strikes again! On another note

according Mie Cohen:

Trump loathes Christians and mocks their faith, but pretends to believe if it suits his purposes.

In Disloyal, published today, Cohen shows how Trump is a master deceiver. He quotes Trump calling Christianity and its religious practices "bullshit," then soon after masterfully posing as a fervent believer. In truth, Cohen writes, Trump's religion is unbridled lust for money and power at any cost to others.

Cohen's insider stories add significant depth to my own documentation of Trump's repeated and public denouncements of Christians as "fools," "idiots" and "schmucks."

In extensive writing and speeches, Trump has declared his life philosophy is "revenge." That stance is aggressively anti-Christian.

Nice guy we have for president

Link goes directly to the podcast, which is by California Sun. Connie Rice is one of the foremost analysts of Los Angeles social policy and (in)justice. She is a very articulate lawyer who also happens to advise LAPD on how to reform. This is a good interview to hear more about policing and the need for economic and policing reform in LA (and in the country).

Her book Power Concedes Nothing (2012) is here, and her wikipedia entry is here

Right, I think you and I's thinking is close on this. But: were these revolutions necessary at all? The english one is more tricky, but in both cases, incremental and marginal reform were happening all along. Schama's Citizens did a lot to show how the ancien regime was not hidebound and dogmatic but was instead dynamic, and innovative. It would not have stood still all through the same time period as our own had it not fallen. There might still be screwy boundaries between departments and some other cruft in the system, but surely some minor cruft isn't a justification for killing millions as the French revolution ultimately led to.

The English revolution is more intractable, and arguably wasn't so much a revolution as an imposition of law where the king was lawless but his law said one thing ('Rex is Lex') whereas Parliament had a different law. There's a really fascinating book I recommend to people on this time period - The Tyrannicide Brief. Arguably, like the American Revolution, this wasn't a revolution in the Marxist sense - the same ruling classes still were on both sides of the conflict with the same social strata and so on. Rather, it was more a civil war where various groups were in conflict on how to rule, and ideology was more dominant than some sort of class conflict.

Growing up near several chemical plants as a child... when he put his head in there... I actually got a chill, like when you see a bad accident about to happen... My son actually asked me why my face went white. I see a lot of shit on this OSHA Reddit but this one really got me.

For a few good reasons why please read: Cyanide Canary by Joseph Hilldorfer

Never, I mean NEVER, put your head (or any other part of your body) in a tank of any type no matter what size or length of duration in the tank without proper safety equipment.

Kindle Edition of Gao Zhisheng's book: Unwavering Convictions: Gao Zhisheng’s Ten-Year Torture and Faith in China’s Future

Haven't read it personally yet (though it's on the list), but I've heard very good things about The Man to See about Edward Bennett Williams (legendary DC trial lawyer, founder of Williams & Connolly).

Echo the recommendation re: The Nine. It's obviously somewhat dated at this point, but gives good context for how the Court operates, how its changing composition/personalities affect its direction, etc.

I don't know the numbers but I read The Great Depression The Diary and it was clear people were more frustrated in 1937 than any other time however they admired FDR for trying something: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002TJLEVE/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Edit: the free audible section discusses the 1937 "recession".