Maitreya’s Question

Copyright © Ric Dexter 1999 SGI-USA has a place in Florida where members can meet and study the Lotus Sutra and Nichiren’s Buddhist teachings. The Florida Nature and Culture Center has regular conferences. I wrote this at a 1999 conference on the study of the Lotus...

3 days after Katrina

Copyright © Ric Dexter 2005 On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, 80% of the city was flooded, causing a reported $125 billion in damage. That doesn’t include the human damage. One thousand two hundred people died. One million five hundred thousand...

Witness Preparation ≠ Witness Training

Originally written as HaynesBoone Trial Consultants Digest 2015 #2 You’ve prepared your witnesses. You are sure they are comfortable with all the facts, but have they been trained to walk into a room with which even you are not familiar . McKenzie was the perfect...

5 Million PowerPoints a Day Can Be Wrong!

Originally presented as HaynesBoone Trial Consultants Digest 2015 #1   5 Million! That is how many PowerPoint presentations are estimated to be shown in the world every day. One researcher estimated that the legal industry alone spends 3.6 million dollars a day...