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Legally Speaking: Costumes That Come Back to Haunt You
11/11/2009 10:16 PM By John G. Browning

I often warn students contemplating going to law school that the experience will change the way they look at things. Nothing is ever quite the same after you begin "thinking like a lawyer."

Legally Speaking: The Great Pretender
11/5/2009 1:10 PM By John G. Browning
In the film "Catch Me If You Can," Leonardo DiCaprio played a character (based on a true story) who leads federal agents on a merry chase as he poses as an airline pilot, a doctor and a lawyer, leaving a trail of forged checks in his wake.
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Legally Speaking "Will We Keep Rockin' In the Free World? Music, Torture, and Gitmo"
10/29/2009 9:45 AM By John G. Browning
On Oct. 22, a coalition of liberal activists and musicians announced the launch of the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo, an effort designed to restore momentum to President Obama's now-stalled intent to shut down the detention facility.
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IP for Your Business: Seven Steps for Reducing Patent Litigation Budgets While Increasing Effectiveness (Part II)
10/29/2009 9:25 AM
Last week, attorney R. David Donoghue shared the first three of seven strategies to help companies decrease patent troll litigation costs while increasing the effectiveness of their defense. Steps 4-7 are continued below
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IP for Your Business: Seven Steps for Reducing Patent Litigation Budgets While Increasing Effectiveness (Part I)
10/22/2009 8:26 AM
Increasingly, every industry and size of business feels the pain of patent litigation. Even small or medium-sized businesses are not exempt.
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Legally Speaking: Extreme Debt Collecting
10/21/2009 8:24 PM By John G. Browning
In last week's column, I related the experience of a young Illinois woman who found herself on the receiving end of a debt collection notice - sent via her social networking page!

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Rep. Kevin Brady targets economic recovery myths in weekly GOP address
10/17/2009 11:51 AM
I'm proud to represent southeast Texas in Congress, and serve as the lead House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, which keeps tabs on America's economic health.
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Legally Speaking: You've Been Served -- Without Ever Leaving the Computer
10/15/2009 7:38 AM By John G. Browning
When most people think of being served with legal documents, they picture the process server knocking at the door, literally the bearer of bad news.
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Legally Speaking: The Broken Gavel Awards
10/7/2009 8:32 AM By John G. Browning
Last week, I wrote about judges who missed their calling, judging by the content of some recent orders and opinions from around the country.

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Legally Speaking: Judges Who Missed Their Calling
9/30/2009 10:00 AM By John G. Browning
Like most trial lawyers, I spend a fair amount of time appearing in front of and interacting with judges. With most of them, it's hard to imagine them as anything but judges - issuing rulings from the bench in all their black-robed, gavel-wielding glory.

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Best of Legally Speaking: Angel On My Shoulder
9/24/2009 3:35 PM By John G. Browning
Legally Speaking is on vacation this week. Following is one of John Browning's most poignant columns, which originally ran April 23.

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