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By Jeffrey T. Donner, Esq.

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  • The Judgment I Would Rather Have: Monetary Sanctions, Contempt, and the Ghost of Debtors’ Prison

    By Jeffrey T. Donner, Esq. June 11, 2026 Every trial lawyer knows something that many non-lawyers learn only after spending money on litigation: a judgment is not the same thing as a recovery. A judgment is a piece of paper. It may be an important piece of paper, and it may create serious collection rights,…

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  • The Unscheduled Phone Call Is Not Neutral

    By Jeffrey T. Donner, Esq. June 11, 2026 A lawyer’s note on time, billing, and professional boundaries Every litigator knows the message: opposing counsel called and wants to “touch base.” On its face, that sounds harmless and sometimes it is. Lawyers should talk to each other when a real conversation can solve a problem, narrow…

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  • The Difference Between a Legal Consultation and a Sales Call

    By Jeffrey T. Donner June 11, 2026 Why This Issue Matters One of the questions I am asked most often by prospective clients is whether I offer a free consultation. It is a fair question, and I understand why people ask it. For decades, the public has seen lawyer advertising promising free consultations, free case…

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  • Law Is Not Math — Except When It Is

    By Jeffrey T. Donner, Esq. June 9, 2026 Outcomes are not math. Competent litigation work often is. I often tell clients that law is not math. When a client asks, “What is going to happen in my case?” the honest answer is usually: “I can give you my best judgment, but I cannot guarantee the…

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  • The Most Fragile Animal on Earth

    By Jeffrey T. Donner, Esq. June 8, 2026 Human beings have a very high opinion of ourselves. We call ourselves the dominant species. We build cities, satellites, courts, banks, universities, hospitals, highways, airplanes, data centers, and artificial intelligence systems. We look at the natural world and imagine ourselves above it. Maybe that is true collectively.…

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  • The End of Our World Is Not the End of the World

    By Jeffrey T. Donner, Esq. June 8, 2026 When people talk about artificial intelligence destroying the world, they usually do not mean the world. They mean our world. They mean the world of electricity, air conditioning, grocery stores, hospitals, courts, schools, banks, mortgages, trucks, airplanes, police departments, water treatment plants, power grids, cell phones, law…

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  • The Soft Singularity, Universal Basic Income, and the Man Who Still Has to Fix the Power Lines

    By Jeffrey T. Donner, Esq. June 8, 2026 There is a version of the artificial-intelligence future in which ordinary life changes so completely that work, money, mortgages, jobs, property, and even human freedom no longer mean what they used to mean. In that version, artificial intelligence becomes artificial general intelligence. Artificial general intelligence becomes superintelligence.…

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  • The Modern Citizen Has No Lord. He Has a File.

    By Jeffrey T. Donner, Esq. June 3, 2026 I. Introduction: The Question We Are Not Supposed to Ask Are modern Americans actually free? That sounds like a ridiculous question. In many obvious ways, the answer is yes. Americans can vote. They can travel. They can own property. They can start businesses. They can sue. They…

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  • When Legal Procedure Replaces Legal Judgment

    By Jeffrey T. Donner, Esq. June 3, 2026 I. Introduction: The Part the Profession Keeps Pretending Is Complicated The modern legal system keeps acting as if basic principles are no longer enough. Courts decide actual disputes. Legislatures make policy. Lawyers verify their own filings. Contracts are supposed to mean something. Property rights are supposed to…

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  • The ChatGPT Privacy Lawsuit: When the Robot May Have Been Talking to Facebook

    By Jeffrey T. Donner, Esq. June 3, 2026 A new class action lawsuit against OpenAI has the ingredients of a modern privacy story: artificial intelligence, sensitive personal questions, Facebook tracking code, Google Analytics, California privacy statutes, and a legal theory that takes old wiretap laws and points them directly at the internet’s advertising machinery. But…

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