President and managing partner, Axiom Advisors As a private-practice attorney at a large San Francisco law firm, Cassie Gilson felt, “It was the right table but the wrong seat at the table.” A client suggested she move to Sacramento and work for him as a lobbyist. “It was really a leap of faith to change careers, to go from practicing law to lobbying, and then moving to a city where you knew no one,” Gilson says of relocating in 2001. In January 2019, Gilson founded Axiom Advisors, making her one of the only women who are managing partners at the top lobbying
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A: When I was a kid, almost everyone ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I sure did. I don’t recall anyone having a peanut allergy. Certainly, there were no “peanut-free” school policies. But by 2008, the rate of peanut allergies among children under the age of 8 had more than tripled from the mid-1990s. Nobody knew why. But the seemingly logical response was to protect kids from peanuts!
The huge flaw in that logic is covered in an acclaimed book, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, by Stanford Law grad Greg Lukianoff and social psychology professor Jonathan Haidt (Penguin Books, 2018). “It was later discovered that peanut allergies were surging precisely because parents and teachers had started protecting children from exposure to peanuts back in the 1990s,” the authors note. They cite an authoritative study published in 2015 that tested the hypothesis that exposing very young children
WASHINGTON (CN) Holding arguments in a case where what happened is about as strange as any hypothetical, Justice Stephen Breyer still provided plenty of seemingly ridiculous reasons in which the law might let a police officer enter someone’s home without a warrant.
How about if California law prevents you from selling or giving away a rabbit for a lottery prize?
“You can think of about 50 of those when you start to get into misdemeanors,” Breyer said Wednesday. “It seems like your home isn’t your castle for terribly minor things.”
On the other hand, Breyer said, “we lose the benefits of a bright line where hot pursuit is really serving an important purpose.”
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