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Henry Miller’s old typewriter with an unusual key placement. An American deserter fleeing to Laos. Beckett and Lucia. A heroin smuggling syndicate. A missing Swiss student. and Madam Petroin sees all.
There's No Normal for You
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Don’t Give Up
My Therapist Committed Suicide
Right after a session. “Your problems don’t sound so bad to me,” the therapist said. Two hours later he was swinging from a rope.
Andalus Publishing Catalog
All titles are available from Amazon. In the US and Europe they can be ordered through your favorite bookstore. In the Middle East, use Amazon for physical copies or immediate downloads. For help or epub files contact admin@andaluspublishing.co catalog2-compressed.pdf
Gay Marriage and Mick Jagger
I’ve always been in favor of gay marriage. How could I not be? Gay marriage means gay divorce and gay divorce means more work for lawyers. I’m in favor of any law that can create more work for lawyers. Shutting out partners in time of illness always seemed to me to be cruel and mean. That defect could have been cured without opening the doors to marriage, but if the gay community wants in, so be…
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AirBnB Login
Someone logged into my seldom-used AirBnB account from Mexico. I’m not in Mexico. You might want to check your account.
AI Says: Epstein is Alive
AI will not let you post possibly defamatory material. However it is not possible to defame the dead. AI won’t let you post possibly defamatory images of Jeffrey Epstein. Therefore, AI believes that Epstein is alive.
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Sent to the mailing list this week: My Life as a God. If you’d like a copy, send an email to noreply@mu7ami.com .
María Luisa Bombal
No sé cómo es posible que esta escritora chilena haya permanecido fuera de mi radar durante tanto tiempo. Nació en Chile en 1910 y, a los nueve años, se trasladó a París, donde terminó la secundaria y comenzó sus estudios universitarios. Haber estado en el París de Hemingway, Joyce y Gertrude Stein durante los años veinte, y siendo además de la misma generación, ¡guau! Después de terminar sus…
Broward County Motion Practice and Hallucinations
I don’t think there’s much of a chance that AI hallucinations will ever be a problem in Broward County, Florida’s circuit civil motion practice. Here’s how the system works: a party files a motion. This used to be done on paper, but I’ll assume that there’s a way to do this electronically. You make several copies of the motion: one for the judge, one for your…
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Pay no Attention
No one objects to Grammarly, spellcheck, word count, calculators and other AI tools. Legal hallucinations are a solved problem that need only coding and access to Westlaw/Juris/FLITE (and maybe Google Scholar)—more on this below. A telltale sign of AI is the use of the em dash…You can get the same effect by pretending to be Céline and using ellipses…While I clutch my pearls worrying about AI…
The Job Hunt
Letter after letter went unanswered, and he realized that he would grow old while waiting for a response; so he redoubled his efforts and started taking bundles to the mailbox, all in identical envelopes, but each with slightly different versions of his past. The mail folk got to know him since he always came in the afternoons after lunch’s rush time, with a stack of envelopes that he needed…
What is LinkedIn For?
LinkedIn is a place to look for a job. Keep your political opinions to yourself. This is no place to vent your views on Palestine, gripe about Gaza, 1948 or to blame everything on Bill Gates, Epstein or vaccines. No one cares. Post your drivel on Facebook, Instagram or get a blog and ask people to shell out. Do we really need to hear about your tricks in getting otherwise unqualified line-jumping…
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Chicago, 1924. Beulah Annan after her arrest. After shooting her lover, Annan was defended by William Scott Stewart who won an acquittal. The notorious trial was captured by the play (later a musical and a film) titled 𝑪𝙝𝒊𝙘𝒂𝙜𝒐.
Appellate Lawyers: AI is coming for you
Briefmaker™ is an AI program which generates appellate briefs. You can read the brief at the link below. Briefmaker (alpha): Briefmaker was given a statement of facts and directed to write a brief. For testing purposes, developer counsel created a simple factual scenario involving the failure to give Miranda warnings. Appellate lawyers: if you think AI isn’t coming for you… Human…
Correction
The document attached to the prior post contains an error, it’s the Saudi Civil Transactions Law.
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The new Saudi tort law, based on European civil codes.
Saudi Arabia Contracts
A Saudi contract should contain the Commercial Registration number of the parties. It should identify the individual representing the company. Due diligence should include a copy of the board resolution authorizing that individual to bind the company. The absence of the first suggests that a contracting party does not exist. The absence of the second suggests that a real company is nevertheless…
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I had trouble finding this image this morning. Arnaldo Parra was the Panamanian club owner who introduced General Juan Domingo Peron to his second wife, later presidenta of Argentina, Isabel Peron. At the time of the introduction, Isabel was a dancer in a Panamanian nightclub.
American Debt Collection
Collection of Small Claims in the United States The law concerns itself with the collection of debts but it doesn’t do a good job. In the United States, the only debts that are self-executing are those related to child support and debts owed to the government. By self-executing I mean those debts which a judge can order enforcement without the need for the creditor to engage in further litigation…
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Byron Bakelite’s new book about a burning, flying dog.
Dactylkiss
(Beso del dedo) Sundays I was in prison, planning with clients for hearings that week. One day I realized that I was spending more time in prison than many of them. My friends went out together, visited family: I went to jail. Relaxation was always hard to schedule, it is difficult to tell the mind to relax when the court hearing is tomorrow and what if the prosecution says this, how will I…
Let Legal AI Communicate
Instead of all this pearl-clutching over legal AI, hallucinations and other obstacles: Why not let the systems talk to each other? Electronic filing is already standard, why not let a court AI review an incoming submission for hallucinations and reject it if any are found? Court clerks already reject non-conforming documents without the need for judicial intervention (page length, word…