If you are skimming off the aspects of your inner life … and reserving them for your ‘friend,’ you are cheating your spouse of intimacy
KISS
Trial preparation is much simpler when you summarize the case file into a few simple documents
Cost, control and certainty
questions on the subjects of cost, control and certainty
The menschy, ethical, feminist variety
Look, I know this is really fascinating for you, but I don’t want to be your anecdote. Stop telling my story.
Nate Haasis
a lot of cooperation and hard work from my teammates
Sprinkles
When? How many? And does it come with sprinkles?
Ethics
It is not enough that the doors of the temple of justice are open; it is essential that the ways of approach be kept clean
Aiming to say the least
Clear heads, sounds hearts, full minds, with point may speak
The more adaptive brain
There’s something about pregnancy and subsequent exposure to offspring that create a more adaptive brain, one that’s generally less susceptible to fear and stress
Objections
a concession to the shortness of life
Not in sync
It is not necessarily a birth order thing, or necessarily a gender thing. It is usually about whether a child’s temperament and a caregiver’s temperament are in sync
The 60 million dollar man?
a man selling options to his brain
Expert witnesses
The record is redolent with familiar dogmatic assertions by experts equally confident of contradictory contentions
Always preferable
People who come to an agreement during mediation will follow the agreement 93 percent of the time.
Experimenting on our children
concern is growing about just what psychotropic drugs can do to still developing brains
Cross examination
almost the only method of eliciting truth
Thorny disagreements
the real moral issue is these sort of thorny disagreements that occur in the settings of real families
A different kind of love
you find they have a different kind of love based on caring and support
Return of the honeymoon
If married couples can stay together for 35 years, they’re likely to find themselves as happy with each other as newlyweds
Who will divorce?
What brings stability to one marriage? What factors make another break up?