Essays & Articles

There's a difference between asking hard questions and creating an alarming impression the evidence doesn't support. Six techniques for reading public claims carefully enough to tell what they actually establish.

I fell in love with Black River Falls almost immediately, and I'm still not sure I can fully explain why. That's the thing about this place: it's hard to describe but easy to feel once you're in it.

There's a particular kind of professional failure that never appears in a complaint, a bar grievance, or a court filing. The client never finds out. That's the whole problem.

America constrains its government more than almost any other nation on earth. That's not a bug. It's the whole design — and it explains a lot about why things work the way they do.

A well-run courtroom isn't just easier to work in. It's fairer, more predictable, and more respectful of everyone's time — including the defendant's.

The research on deterrence is pretty clear: it's not the harshness of a punishment that changes behavior — it's the certainty that any consequence will follow at all.

When AI levels the playing field on raw cognitive output, the only true differentiator left is character.

The most important preparation you can give your child for the age of AI isn't a coding class or a test prep course. It's character.

The Catholic tradition has been solving the problem of moral formation for two millennia. It turns out that's exactly what the age of AI needs.

Why AI will not fix law firms until law firms fix pricing — and what I learned spending years trying to change the incentive structure of private practice.

The billable hour is preventing growth in the legal industry. Here's what happens when you use time as a performance metric — and what a better system looks like.