From the outside looking in, one might think that lawyers eat luxury meals for lunch and dinner; martinis and bleu cheese salads for lunch, and rich French red wines with steaks and lobsters for dinner every day. It’s not true.… Continue Reading
You would be best advised to not oversimplify the dynamics of the Supreme Court. Traditionally, one would say Breyer, Souter, Ginsburg, and Stevens are liberals, Roberts, Alito, Souter, and Thomas are conservatives, and Kennedy is usually conservative but often votes… Continue Reading
This story from Germany is somewhat troubling. A man and a woman grew up in separate households, and as adults they met and fell in love. Twist is, they then found out that they are actually siblings; the man was… Continue Reading
Last night I went to pro tem judge school again. This time, the subject was traffic. The amount of technical knowledge is quite intimidating. Photo red light enforcement, speeding, and sentencing all are very complicated and technical in nature. There… Continue Reading
Another insomniac episode last night, as my brain was overflowing with facts and information. Nothing awful or scary or even stressful, but just plain too much of it. So that was an hour awake at 3:00 in the morning, until… Continue Reading
Feels like I’ve been in court way too much recently. Nothing is getting done back in the office. There’s been a new group of tenants-defense attorneys showing up, doing things that I have significant questions about — soliciting clients in… Continue Reading
Apparently, over in the UK, barristers are not able to sue solicitors for not paying their bills; it’s a big deal that fee contracts between the two kinds of British lawyers are now becoming enforceable. Granted, their system is more… Continue Reading
It was with great unhappiness that I learned today that one of my eviction cases from last week is not going to work out. The defendants were a couple in their thirties who hit a rough patch in their careers,… Continue Reading
Last night I went to a class for temporary judges. There were over 200 people there; I even ran in to some lawyers I know from the practice, who I had no idea served as temporary judges. The program works… Continue Reading
Mediations are draining affairs. You often think they’re going to be short, if the parties have only money to talk about, and then they last all day while the parties negotiate every damn thing. I’ve written a skit to describe… Continue Reading