Driver Education

August 18, 2015 Hastings and Hastings
Everyone thinks they can write, everyone thinks they can act, and everyone thinks they can drive. Yes, most people can produce something like good writing, good acting, or good driving, but few people are actually good writers, actors, or drivers. Actually, it’s safe to speculate that about 1 out of 100 drivers are actually...
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Famous Latin Phrases

August 17, 2015 Hastings and Hastings
The legal field is riddled with Latin. Exempli gratis, habeus corpes (for example, give us the body). One might ignorantly presume that this is an intentional effort to keep lay people away from the profession so that lawyers can keep their profession sustainable and lucrative. But Latin should not be feared. It has far...
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Law Students who Moonlight as Beauty Queens

August 16, 2015 Hastings and Hastings
When one thinks of law students, the image of a pale student wearing horned rimmed glasses and suspenders holstered over their frail shoulders comes to mind. But, apparently a handful of students boast the virtue of beauty as well as brains. Most recently, a one Candice Bennatt who holds the title for Miss Louisiana...
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Bizarre Arizona Laws

August 15, 2015 Hastings and Hastings
Although the legal system remains a highly efficient, highly logical set of guidelines and principles that produce justice, there are a few laws that simply make no sense. Regardless, a reasonable thinker hopes to find a cause for every effect, and along that line of reasoning, a law that prohibits humans from dressing donkeys...
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Shakespeare Plays and Lawyers

August 14, 2015 Hastings and Hastings
Authors tend to be a bit on the eccentric side. Their ability to accurately describe the things ordinary people don’t notice makes them a shining example of human ingenuity and the capacity of the mind. Shakespeare being an author amongst authors was the best at pointing out the obvious in a clever yet precise...
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