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  • August 2016
Ray Donovan Review

We love Ray Donovan the same way we loved Tony Soprano. He gets the job done and at the end of the day, as bloody and philandering and as it may be, he returns home to be the rock of his family. Only instead of working for the mob, Ray Donovan works for attorneys. Ray...

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  • August 2016
NFL Police Reports

The San Francisco 49ers’ off-field reputation may be improving after a number of high profile encounters between 49ers and law enforcement in recent years. And although the Oakland Raiders recently took on the responsibility of one of those 49ers—five-time arrestee and pro bowler Aldon Smith—all is so far so good this preseason for the silver...

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  • August 2016
Broderick Roadhouse, Restaurant Review

Broderick Roadhouse is located in the heart of downtown Walnut Creek on Locust Street in the space formerly occupied by Hubcaps Diner. The space was transformed from a diner to a roadhouse complete with full bar, wood beams, rustic pendant lights, and bits of Walnut Creek history. Born from a food truck, Broderick opened its...

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  • August 2016
Ethics and Better Call Saul

Last year I wrote an article lauding the first season of AMC’s series “Better Call Saul,” a spinoff ‘dramedy’ series tracking the origin of “Breaking Bad’s” unscrupulous, but compassionate, drug lawyer Saul Goodman. The series begins in the early 2000’s, when Saul Goodman was then Jimmy McGill, a former grifter who attempts to carve out...

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  • August 2016
A Local Attorney’s Reflections on Last Month’s Tragedies

**This essay on the intersection of Legal Ethics and Race evolved from a private Facebook post that I had written on July 8, 2016 after a night of tears due to the deaths of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and four Latino males killed in traffic stops and, of course, after watching the news coverage of...

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  • August 2016
London Inns of Court Adventure in England

Many years ago, when Scott was a 21, he studied in London for eight months and had an opportunity to visit several of the Inns of Court. We recently traveled through London on our way to visit our daughter, who finished her high school on a year exchange in Warsaw. We took the opportunity to...

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