On this blog, attorney Travis Scott Eller escapes the courtroom and ventures into the realm of commentary and storytelling only possible after too much caffeine and not enough sleep.

When he’s not dismantling eviction defenses, he can be found staring down grandmasters over a chessboard, bending spacetime with his golf swing, or writing fiction so outrageous that even his characters ask for legal counsel.

When he is in Pamplona, the bulls run from him.

And when he wants to relax, he turns the dial down to 11.

He is… the most interesting lawyer in the world.

“Court Martial”: A Legal Drama That (Mostly) Holds Up—A Plot That Doesn’t

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Landlord's Motives

Do the Landlord’s Motives Matter Legally?

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The Rent is Too Damned…Fixed?

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Evicted by Matthew Desmond, a Review

A woman moves slowly, looking overcome as she answers the door for the sheriff deputy...