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A “Koehler Goodbye”
Jamison Koehler
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08/03/2025
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We have always loved extended goodbyes in my family – the more over the top, the better.    We used to do what we eventually...
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Ode to a legal career
Jamison Koehler
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02/19/2024
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When I say how good Emma would be at the practice of law, her mother — my little sister — points out that Emma is...
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A man with a destination
Jamison Koehler
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11/30/2023
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Dressed nicely and sitting outside the lawyer’s lounge, the woman always appeared to be speaking on the phone about some weighty constitutional issue....
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Storming the Capitol with Jenna Ellis
Jamison Koehler
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10/27/2023
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There never was an “elite strike force team.” Nor was there any significant election fraud. It is hard to believe that this second-rate lawyer once...
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Riding the Acela with Matt Gaetz
Jamison Koehler
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10/25/2023
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I spend a lot of time on the Acela. So too do other people I have encountered over the last year or so: Tony Fauci,...
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Life and other lessons from on-line gaming
Jamison Koehler
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03/28/2023
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It is almost as if our former President intentionally peppers his unhinged and whiny tweets with spelling and grammatical errors. He wants to show his...
Baltimore graffiti
As-salamu alaykum.  Have a blessed day.
Jamison Koehler
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11/16/2022
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I look forward to seeing him every morning. We do our little exchange, our private joke, and then we fist bump, and I continue onto...
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Winter came
Jamison Koehler
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09/13/2022
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This is why we say goodbye.  Letting go is what it comes to....
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Forever houses
Jamison Koehler
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08/25/2022
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My wife has a history of agreeing to rent or buy the first place we visit whenever we are looking for a place to live....
Baltimore graffiti
No room for the boy
Representing the bad guys: Criminal defense lawyers sometimes make tradeoffs when we take on domestic violence cases...
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I don’t want to be that guy
Jamison Koehler
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03/04/2021
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I have to be careful — as I grow more experienced and continue to age –that I don’t turn into the stereotype of the cranky...
D.C. criminal defense lawyer
There, there
Jamison Koehler
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02/08/2021
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Because the grandmother is deaf, she does not hear the police officers assembling on the front porch of her rowhouse....
Oedipus
A Classicist’s Take on “Trump as Tragic Hero”
Jamison Koehler
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12/14/2020
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Guest Post by Raymond Koehler on “Trump as Tragic Hero”...
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Trump as tragic hero
Jamison Koehler
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12/03/2020
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Like Oedipus, the classic tragic hero who was felled by his excessive pride and self-righteousness, Trump has been done in by his own personal failings....
Nonnie Moore painting
MAGA hat
Jamison Koehler
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10/12/2020
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A close relative — someone I have admired my entire life — is photographed wearing a red MAGA hat. It is one of the most...