I’m only going to hire a lawyer to provide the things I can’t get from a machine - the human aspects. And when I need that kind of service, I’ll want a lawyer who has thought consciously about how to incorporate humanity into law practice, and who is skilled at doing so.

On our way home from North Carolina to West Virginia today, Gary and I decided to visit Shenandoah National Park. Although I’ve spent two decades living within 160 miles of the park, I had never visited before and did not know much about its history - or the tumultuous property rights story hidden just beneath the surface of its ridges.

But there’s another way. Instead of treating the endemic pain of asylum practice (or any stressful law practice) as a disease, what if we instead view it as fuel in a quest for the highest performance - for what Kotler calls “the art of Impossible”?

Today we went to the annual reunion of the family of Gary’s paternal grandmother. For 59 years, they’ve gathered in the park to eat fried chicken and lasagna, drink red wine by the gallon, and talk about anything and nothing.

Studies have shown that spending time outdoors increases grey matter in the right dorso-lateral prefrontal cortex. This part of the brain is positively associated with cognitive control. Also, many psychiatric disorders a characterized by a lack of grey matter in the prefrontal cortex.

This bias toward safe success in the legal profession may be one of the biggest inhibitors for lawyers in adapting to a profession that is on the verge of being disrupted by technology.

In popular culture, especially on the internet, I see a new kind of superhero taking shape. This character, in a peculiarly Gen X/Milennial/Gen Z fashion, changes the world, but always in a shape-shifting, unexpected way.

On June 14, 1883, Baker was 21 years old and one of 11 members of the WVU Class of 1883. It was WVU’s 13th graduating class.

LSAC does not, however, allow any testing accommodations for students who are learning English as a Second Language (ESL). LSAC should change that policy.

As I came a little closer, I realized it was a small spotted fawn - the youngest I’d ever seen. It seemed to be alone.

Sacca’s path points in another direction. You can do the conventional thing for years, safe and surviving, maybe even getting ahead a little. But at some point, if you want something new to grow in your life, you have to make space for it. The bigger your vision, the more space you’ll have to make.

To develop this narrative requires the lawyer to use elements of the entrepreneurship method, whether consciously or unconsciously.

What people think I do during the summer

From experience (including recent experience) with fails large and small, here’s what I’ve observed to be the internal process for pivoting

The Court’s decision seems especially tragic when you consider that one of the defendants was the University of North Carolina, one of several states from which the Cherokee and other tribes were brutally removed on the infamous Trail of Tears in 1838-39.

For my first ever experience creating with AI, I prompted the AI tool on Shutterstock to create an image of “West Virginia and the scales of justice.”

A while back I came out of the grocery store and saw this bumper sticker on the car next to mine: