Posts from November 2013.

Many of Ohio's county courthouses are architectural gems, located in the center of small towns, like the Clinton County Courthouse in Wilmington where legal work took me this morning.  The rural drive and first dusting of snow was a scenic start to the day, with the visual highlight being this beautiful rotunda in the courthouse. Below were lights ...

ArtWorks is an awesome non-profit organization (I’ve mentioned here before) that does incredible public mural paintings on sides of buildings in Cincinnati. Their annual Secret ArtWorks show, this Friday at 5:00 at the Center at the Mercantile Building, 115 E. Fifth St., is really fun and includes hundreds of miniature works of art for sale ...

Today is the 150th Anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, a masterpiece by a master craftsman of the language of democracy. In Cincinnati’s Lytle Park stands a statue of Lincoln, dedicated on March 31, 1917 at an outdoor ceremony attended by 20,000 to hear an address by William Howard Taft who, like Lincoln, was a former President and ...

Arts philanthropy from Cincinnatians Louis and Louise Nippert is the gift that keeps on giving to our community. The Nipperts’ Greenacres Foundation continues their legacy of appreciation for the environment, sustainable agriculture and the cultural arts.  The Greenacres Artists Guild is a 26-member group of artists who do shows and arts  ...
This portrait of George Schaefer, Jr., former CEO of Fifth Third Bancorp in Cincinnati, was painted by Carl Samson, one of America’s leading portrait artists. No doubt it is a fine likeness, but portraitists like Carl paint more than likeness. What they are able to capture is verisimilitude—the appearance of truth. Lawyers and judges speak ...

At your next meeting look around and make a mental note of who in the room seems to be watching the facial expressions of others. How about you? Are you reading facial expressions?

When proposals are being circulated in a negotiation, the attentive negotiator will put their pen down, put away the smart phone, look up from the laptop and watch for that ...

How to simplify? What’s essential; what’s not? How many details to include? These are questions both lawyers and painters ask themselves. How many questions should I ask this witness? How many facts should I put in this brief? What are the main points for the client? the judge? Should I paint in all the feathers or only a few to suggest others. How ...
This blog aims to bring together two seemingly separate worlds that could learn a lot from each other: the world of art and the world of law.

It's easy to see why people assume art and law are worlds apart. After all, one is a world of briefcases and suits, cases and deals, statutes and rules, courts and juries, documents and contracts - a verbal world ...

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