“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”

-Mark Twain

Did someone say “lawyers”? As a long-time member of the distinguished legal profession, I am continually amazed at how there can exist ten different versions of the facts and circumstances of one event. Recently I asked a retired Judge if it bothered him that half of all the people who spoke with him daily in Court were lying to him. His response contained the wisdom of experience: “I choose to believe instead that everyone told me half-truths.” At work, use emails whenever you are making important statements, filing important complaints, or responding to allegations of any kind. Emails create a clear, undeniable, permanent record of the truth, that is difficult to distort, even by the best “distorters.” Did someone say “lawyers”?

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