Written by Karissa Lin, student intern under the supervision of Attorney Terance Orme In the 1998 Disney animation Mulan, the female protagonist Fa Mulan disguises herself as a male soldier and joins the army in place of her elderly father, despite the military’s conscription specifically requiring one male from each family to enlist. As a… Read More
Who’s Phony…Who’s Fake…Are you Bona Fide…or Another Lost Legal Case?
“If—” is a poem by British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling, written in 1895 and states in pertinent part, “If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much…”… Read More
What was Goliath’s Million Dollar Mistake and Why Does It Matter to My Business?
The story has been told in several eras, with different characters and cultural adaptations, with equal and congruent results. The undersized and underestimated meets an entity greater than itself with an ego of equal proportion. Spoiler Alert: It doesn’t go as planned. As the story goes, the undersized and underestimated David, citing King James Biblical… Read More
