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I bought my first lottery ticket recently.

If you weren’t fearful of government before this week, you should be scared to death by now.

When strangers ask if I’m the guy from the newspaper, I’ve always joked that no one else would want to be me.

A good friend gives us her old newspapers from a small town in Maine. They are entertainment — a sedentary version of date night.

Experience has, or at least it should have, taught us some lessons along the way. One, I’ve learned when advancing toward the next landing while going up the stairs, it’s a lot less painful to fall up the stairs than it is to fall down them. While the misstep that caused the fall is pretty much the same, the extra pain of falling backward when we fail to grasp fully the importance of decreasing hastiness and increasing caution has to do with the direction we fall. Falling up the stairs merely momentarily stops us; it doesn’t place us farther away from our next landing.

Some of the most important and universally useful documents that attorneys prepare are wills, trusts, powers of attorney and living wills. These documents are often called estate planning documents or advance directives (as for the powers of attorney and living wills).

Bam! Just like that, it’s back-to-school time again. Elementary school, high school or college, it doesn’t matter; it’s a hectic time preparing for the kids’ return to the classroom.

Based on what we know, there are three major legal takeaways from the FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s Florida home on Monday.

“It’s the economy, stupid.”

Bob Strauss, the venerable Dallas lawyer-lobbyist and longtime Democratic Party leader, used to say that, in politics, things are never as good as they seem or as bad as they seem.