Year: 2022

In this age of social media and increasing incivility, lawyers often get requests to consider taking defamation/ slander/libel cases. While the circumstances which give rise to these requests are distressing to the people experiencing them, successful cases of this...

Recently, I have made a few driving trips to and from Florida. One of the changes I have noticed as I drive south is the proliferation of lawyer billboards. Every one proclaiming the millions of dollars they have recovered for their clients. I see this too when I...

I used to think I was a good writer, especially after our beloved librarian Mary Statt told me I would be a writer when she was playing the part of a fortune teller at a town event. But being a lawyer has corrupted my writing style. We lawyers use legal jargon too...

For most people, choosing a lawyer is not something they will have the time or resources to do thoroughly, in the way one might approach buying a new car. It is usually a decision necessary because of an unpleasant event in life—a spouse who has announced the desire...