Topic: lawyer's view
He's Principled, She's Scandalous
Why the same actions by a lawyer are called principled in a man and scandalous in a woman. And what a Russian saying about your own sheepskin coat has to do with it.
Read more →AI and Lawyers: A Client Arrives With a ChatGPT Answer
AI and lawyers: a client brings a ChatGPT answer. Why it doesn't scare me, and how I review chatbot answers in a written legal consultation.
Read more →Why Lawyers Do Not Work on Credit
A client asks me to "just send" a letter, promising to pay once business picks up. I explain why this is manipulation — and why lawyers do not work on credit.
Read more →The Hippo Effect: How to Fight Judicial Arbitrariness
What to do when a coordinated bureaucratic conveyor belt, not an opponent, works against your client. Thirteen rules for turning a convenient case into the system's nightmare.
Read more →Precedent Does Not Exist. Except When It Does.
Courts cite Supreme Court positions when convenient, and recall that Russia has no binding precedent when it is not. Here is where the real boundary lies.
Read more →Pocket Lawsuits: Manufacturing Convenient Precedent
Sometimes a lawsuit between a company's own affiliates is a tool, not a mistake: a quiet ruling later gets produced as a trump card against real clients.
Read more →Judicial Impunity: We Pay, They Don't
An unlawful court ruling means ruined finances for a business — but for the judge who caused it, the system treats it as a mere statistical footnote.
Read more →If You Understood, You Understood
I used to choose people by their skills. Now I choose by values. Brilliant at work, but not aligned on what matters — simply not my kind of person.
Read more →The Family Help Trap: How Experts Get Devalued
A lawyer spends decades rescuing family for free. When they name the value of that work, they hear: 'But this benefits you too.' Sound familiar?
Read more →Article 7.1 on Judges Returning From Retirement
Article 7.1 allows retired judges to return to the bench. An emergency staffing tool that has become a privilege for insiders at double cost to the budget.
Read more →Why Judges Are Almost Never Criminally Prosecuted
Russia has thousands of judges, but criminal cases against them are rare. This is by design. We explain how judicial immunity works, who can lift it, and...
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