On the way to work on Monday I listened to a report on NPR about the sacking of the Mayor of Moscow, Russia, by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Where I’m from, mayors are independently elected officials, so it struck me as similar to President Obama firing Mayor Bloomberg of New York. Apparently, the Mayor in question–Yury Luzhkov–is […]
Archives for September 2010
How to be prepared to visit your attorney
September 29, 2010 by
Recently, a close relative asked me my advice on how to deal with getting, and keeping, an attorney. Having worked with several over the course of his legal matter, he had not made any serious progress. Then, one day, this relative found out that the attorney he had been working with had left the firm […]
Book in the mail: “Miles Away…Worlds Apart.”
September 28, 2010 by
I just received a copy of “Miles Away, Worlds Apart” in the mail. It was sent to me by the author who is hoping for a review after I read it. Written by Alan Sakowitz, the book about his experience as a whistleblower of a “Madoff-like Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Florida attorney Scott Rothstein[.]” (from the […]
Peacemakers and lawyers: synonymous?
September 28, 2010 by
Perusing a copy of the ABA‘s GPSOLO magazine, I came across an article focused on attorneys as peacemakers in a family law setting. With my sister recently divorced, and knowing plenty of attorneys who make their living in divorces, I know that peacemaking is not an easily obtained goal, if it even is a goal […]
firing a mayor: only in Russia
September 28, 2010 by
Just heard this on NPR: President Medvev fired Moscow’s mayor. Can he even do that? Guess democracy isn’t the same world over. More later…
Lawyers don’t produce anything.
September 27, 2010 by
This is the one in which a lawyer produces something. But first, this from Antonin Scalia: [L]awyers, after all, don’t produce anything. They enable other people to produce and to go on with their lives efficiently and in an atmosphere of freedom. That’s important, but it doesn’t put food on the table… And now, cut […]
Andrew Jackson on Nullification
September 27, 2010 by
I ran across an interesting piece of political history this weekend. With nullification occasionally making the news across the country, I thought it was interesting to see how the executive responded to it in one of its first appearances, during the Administration of Andrew Jackson. THE Constitution of the United States forms a government, not […]
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