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Intel Dump Near real-time analysis and commentary from Phil Carter, a former Army officer, journalist and law student.
The blog of a young government appellate attorney, with a minor focus on environmental cases.
What's this weblog – blog – blawg – all about? It's about creativity – how lawyers have come up with unusual solutions in their practices. And, it's about how lawyers can come up with more. It will also be about general principles of creativity – as used in business, in science, in anything – and how those principles can be and have been applied in the practice of law.{;}{;}It's about how not to think like a lawyer. We have all been trained to be logical. If we want to go from A to Z, we have to pass through C, D, and the other 22 letters to get to Z. The blawg is about how to do what Edward de Bono describes in his book entitled Lateral Thinking. The Oxford English Dictionary defines de Bono's lateral thinking process as follows: {;}{;}"[A] way of thinking which seeks the solution to intractable problems through unorthodox methods, or elements which would normally be ignored by logical thinking."{;}{;}But, this weblog is not about finding unusual solutions and making novel arguments that no judge in his or her right mind would buy. Instead, it's about coming up with easily-understood solutions that, in hindsight, appear obvious, both to you, and, more importantly, to others. As Arthur Koestler said in his Act of Creation, "[T]he more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards."{;}
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