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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Memorable Depositions
September 10, 2010 by
The ABA Journal has asked readers what are some of the memorable depositions they’ve been in over the years. I had a good laugh at a few of them. “Andythelawyer” remembered a depo where the client shared more than his attorneys thought appropriate: A couple of decades ago I was representing one of many directors […]
“Our greatest fear should not be…”
September 3, 2010 by
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things that don’t matter.” – Craig Groeschel
Random calls to a P.I. attorney
July 29, 2010 by
Is it really this crazy to be a personal injury attorney? Maybe I’m in the wrong industry. For your reading entertainment, courtesy of Namby Pamby: Caller: I got shot and I don’t know what I can do. Me: Ok. Who shot you? Caller: I dunno. Me: And what exactly do you think you can do […]
Quote of the day
July 27, 2010 by
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. (Edmund Burke, 1775)
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