Marc Murphy

3 weeks ago | leoweekly.com | Marc Murphy

Rule 1.2 Model Rules of Professional Conduct . . . . . . . d) A lawyer shall not counsel a client to engage, or assist a client, in conduct that the lawyer knows is criminal or fraudulent, but a lawyer may discuss the legal consequences of any proposed course of conduct with a client and may counsel or assist a client to make a good faith effort to determine the validity, scope, meaning or application of the law. I represented people accused of crimes my entire career.

2 months ago | leoweekly.com | Marc Murphy

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Jan 8, 2025 | leoweekly.com | Marc Murphy

When Timothée Chalamet channels Bob Dylan and sings The Times They Are A Changin’ in A Complete Unknown a rapt Newport Folk Festival audience sings the chorus with him. It’s intended to be a spontaneous and uplifting moment but it just made me sad. The Times, as it happens, never did change. Or, they did but only to become worse. Dylan’s lyrics were a Post-War, Vietnam era reimagining of The Sermon on the Mount in which it’s finally time for the meek to inherit the earth.

Dec 3, 2024 | leoweekly.com | Marc Murphy

The people who can do the work to resist need to know they’re not alone. You don’t have to do anything, and maybe you can’t. But things have changed. The United States — the entire world — is so different now than it was the day before the election that in the event there are history books as we understand them in the future this begins an entirely new chapter. And it’s a very bad one. On the one hand, yes, you have your life to live. The life you HAVE to live. The only one you have.

Aug 16, 2024 | leoweekly.com | Marc Murphy

The Olympics are a platform for some of the fastest, strongest, and most determined athletes in the world. Television coverage invites us into a small part of their worlds, briefly, and we are often moved by the experience. “Citius, Altius, Fortius”:  “Faster, Higher, Stronger” was the Olympic motto until 2021. The Olympics are also a platform for the host nation. A national Chamber of Commerce fantasy.