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Category Archives: Books
LAW MAN Comes to the Supreme Court Community
Tagged Adam Liptak, Andy Cockle, Ann Marie Hopwood, Law Man, Mary Helen Cockle, Noah Levine, Robert Corn-Revere, Ronald Collins, Seth Waxman, WilmerHale
I have just the best friends. Last week, a few friends hosted a LAW MAN book party for me at WilmerHale in Washington DC. The event was hosted by WilmerHale Attorneys Seth Waxman and Noah Levine, UW Law Professor (and my ConLaw teacher) Ronald Collins, Davis & Wright Attorney Robert Corn-Revere, and my good friends from [...]
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The Supreme Court Story in LAW MAN
Tagged books, Law Man, SCOTUS, Seth Waxman, WilmerHale
There are a number of story lines running through my memoir, LAW MAN: criminal justice, love, faith, redemption, and family. But one of the other major story lines, and quite honestly the hook that got the book published, is my story about the Supreme Court. For those of you unfamiliar with how I became acquainted [...]
LAW MAN Hits Bookshelves
Tagged Ann Marie Hopwood, book, CockleBur, Law Man, memoir, Shon Hopwood
I haven’t had much opportunity to blog the past couple of weeks because Annie and I have been busy with book promotion. On August 7th, my memoir LAW MAN: My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Court Cases, and Finding Redemption landed at bookshelves around the country. And in the past two weeks, Annie and [...]
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Booklist Reviews Law Man
Tagged book review, Booklist Online, Law Man, Shon Hopwood
Booklist Online is a collection of over 130,000 book reviews for librarians, book groups, and book lovers—from the experts at the American Library Association. I was excited to learn that a few weeks ago, David Pitt wrote a Booklist Online review of Law Man: My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Court Cases, and Finding Redemption. At 23, [...]
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Why Liberals (and Everyone) Should Support Economic Liberty: Jacob Huebert Visits the University of Washington School of Law
Tagged economic liberty, Jacob H. Huebert, Libertarianism Today, University of Washington School of Law
I am a relatively recent convert to the theory of libertarianism. In fact, I didn’t even know I was a libertarian until I started reading economics books, and I realized that the heavy hand of government is not always the best, and rarely the most efficient, way to help people. My first introduction to real [...]
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Law Man: My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Court Cases, and Finding Redemption
Tagged Crown Publishing, Law Man: My Story of Robbing Banks Winning Supreme Court Cases and Finding Redemption, memoir, Random House
Most of you who read the CockleBur frequently know that I have a memoir that Crown/Random House is publishing. Well, we now have a definitive publication date: August 7th. Annie and I will be busy between now and then promoting the book from a number of angles. If major promotional stuff comes up, I will [...]
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First Review of Law Man
Tagged book review, federal prisoners, Huffington Post, Law Man: My Story of Robbing Banks, Michael G. Santos, Shon Hopwood, Winning Supreme Court Cases and Finding Redemption
In August of 2012, Crown/Random House will release my memoir entitled “Law Man: My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Cases and Finding Redemption.” Crown has started sending copies of the manuscript to people for reviews and blurbs. One of the first people they sent the manuscript to was Michael Santos. Mr. Santos is a [...]
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A Cool Way to Check Your Brief’s Readability
Tagged Flesch reading ease score, Flesch-Kincaid readability test, passive voice, Point Made, Ross Guberman
I recently ran across a cool way to check whether my writing is readable. The tip comes from Ross Gubberman’s book Point Made: How to Write Like the Nation’s Top Advocates. I was unaware that Microsoft Word has a feature that measures the readibility of Word documents. Word generates a readibility report that is based on the [...]
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