Books Read (in order read)
1. Freezing Order by Bill Browder (2022)
2. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (2005) [cd unabridged]
3. Sycamore Oaks by John Grisham (2013)
4. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1929) [cd unabridged]
5. The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel (2021)
6. Off the Deep End: Jerry and Becki Falwell and the Collapse of an Evangelical Dynasty by Giancarlo Granda with Mark Ebner (2022)
7. Straight Man by Richard Russo (1997) [cd unabridged]
8. The Judge’s List by John Grisham (2021)
9. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman (2022)
10. Desert Star by Michael Connelly (2022) [cd unabridged]
11. Defend Us in Battle by George Monsoor and Rose Rea (2022)
12. Blue Nights by Joan Didion (2011) [cd unabridged]
13. Everything Reminds Me of Something by Adam Carolla (2022)
14. Under A Wing by Reeve Lindbergh (1998)
15. A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market by Edward O. Thorp (2017)
16. Route 66: The Mother Road by David Knudson (2012)
17. Facing Reality by Charles Murray (2021)
18. South and West by Joan Didion (2017)
19. A Father's Story by Lionel Dahmer (2021)
20. Paul: A Biography by N.T. Wright (2018)
21. The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow (2008) [cd unabridged]
22. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh And The Rise Of Right-Wing Extremism by Jeffrey Toobin (2023)
23. About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior by Col. David H. Hackworth (ret.) and Julie Sherman (1989)
24. It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis (1935)
25. Is Atheism Dead? by Eric Metaxas (2021)
26. Miracles by Eric Metaxas (2014) [cd unabridged]
27. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe (2021) [audio unabridged]
28. Laptop from Hell by Miranda Devine (2021)
29. A Time for Mercy by John Grisham (2020) [cd unabridged]
30. Sprinting Through No Man’s Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France by Adin Dobkin (2021)
31. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir by Matthew Perry (2022) [cd unabridged]
32. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (2023)
33. America's Cultural Revolution by Christopher F. Rufo (2023)
34. Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell (2023) [cd unabridged]
35. As Nature Made Him by John Colapinto (2000)
36. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis (2023)
Book of the Year
About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior by Col. David H. Hackworth (ret.) and Julie Sherman (1989)
Honorable Mentions: Paul: A Biography by N.T. Wright (2018) and Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe (2021)
Film of the Year
All Quiet On the Western Front
Honorable Mention: Oppenheimer
Concert of the Year
Greta Van Fleet (Honda Center--Anaheim, CA)
Appeal of the Year
This one's genesis is in a prior trial of the year (2021). The other side appealed the judgment against it. They contested the estate's liability under a prior judgment against a decedent. Like the trial court, the appellate court agreed with me that the earlier judgment applied to the estate on behalf of the decedent and that the estate violated it. To put the cherry on the proverbial sundae, we were awarded every cent of attorneys' fees requested for the appeal as well as the trial.
Trial of the Year
This one was an arbitration. Like a hotly contested trial, this arbitration involved multiple experts, witnesses, and documentary evidence. My clients purchased a million dollar house in South Orange County. After the escrow closed, they discovered that the written disclosures were false. According to the arbitrator, we proved fraud and breach of contract. The arbitrator set a hearing for punitive damages and/or attorneys' fees.
Athletic Achievement of the Year
106 5ks or longer in 2023
365/365 workouts (9th year in a row)
Ran at least one mile a day from 7/1/23 through 12/31/23 (as inspired by Wayne Z.C. Marsh)
Fulfilled annual treks to Hawaii and Sedona
Losses Sustained
Dr. Timothy Keller
