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Apology for Disruptive Protests

March 18, 2023 – 3:53 pm

The Honorable Stuart Kyle Duncan, who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, was invited to speak at Stanford Law School last week, but hecklers prevented him from giving his talk, and U.S. marshals ended up escorting him out of the room. Two days later, he received a written apology letter […]

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A Good Business Apology

January 14, 2023 – 4:32 pm

This blog usually reviews public apologies that fall short of the mark, but here’s one that has been praised: it was by Andrew Benin, chief executive of Graza, a small startup that sells olive oil. Graza started just a year ago, and this was its first holiday season. Apparently some gift packages arrived late, or […]

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Kidnap Plotters Apologize

December 24, 2022 – 2:09 pm

Kidnap Plotters Sentenced   Pete Musico offers an example of how not to give an apology. At his sentencing hearing in a Jackson, Michigan, court last week, he seemed to blame Congresswoman Maxine Waters for his plan to kidnap the Michigan governor. He and two co-defendants, all members of a Michigan militia group, were found […]

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Former Alameda CEO Apologizes

December 24, 2022 – 1:37 pm

Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, the crypto-trading firm connected with FTX, issued an apology when she plead guilty to fraud and other offenses in a New York federal court this week. There was no public notice of the hearing, but a transcript was released yesterday. She agreed to cooperate with the government’s […]

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Mediation Tragedy

December 23, 2022 – 12:42 pm

Reports of violence associated with mediations are rare, but they do happen.  One occurred this week in Goldsboro, NC, where a client shot and killed his lawyer at the end of the mediation, then killed himself. While details of the mediation itself are sketchy, reports are that a personal injury mediation was taking place at […]

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