As I drafted the opening line of this post, I didn’t intend to make a pun…but there is a lot of mental firepower behind this report. Over the last several years, ATF has used the large amount of data it has to produce four useful, authoritative reports. Yesterday it released the fourth volume. Together, they […]
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I became a federal employee as a teenager, and stayed one until I retired. The private sector was mysterious to me. Perhaps the single best piece of career advice I got for solving that mystery: Call Adam S. Lee. I knew Adam from his time as a Special Agent in Charge in the Federal Bureau
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Subtlety is often lost on me. Maybe it’s because attention to detail isn’t my strongest suit, but I find it helpful when things are pointed out bluntly. Even though I’ve noticed many of the recent attempts at language reform (it’s hard not to; some of them are pretty silly and ham-fisted), I hadn’t noticed the
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One of the best things about being an adjunct law professor is all the bright young future attorneys I meet. What’s even better? Seeing them go on to become practicing lawyers. Today I had lunch with a group of former students who went on to become prosecutors. (And I’ve said before that prosecutors are the
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