I bought a light tan "summer suit" and I'm getting it tailored so that I can wear suspenders with it. My transformation into a simple country lawyer is coming along nicely.

I've come to realize that I use idioms as something of a verbal crutch. Instead of saying, "um" or "well," when my mind draws a blank, or I'm otherwise at a loss for words, I'll blurt out something to try to get the point across. And I didn't even realize it until recently ( Read more... )

This past Wednesday I had a trial, and, since my career is only a little over 4 months old now, I can pretty safely say it was the biggest trial of my career. I'm not sure how much anyone will get out of reading this, because I'm leaving most of the details out (on purpose), but I think this is more for me now than any "audience ( Read more... )

Hello late 20s.

Aside from not being financially able to raise a kid at this point, I don't have the whole parent mindset down ( Read more... )

We're almost 3 months in to actually opening up our own law firm ( Read more... )

Not only is UT undefeated this season, so am I ( Read more... )

I've lived in my house for 6 years, and for the first time I put up Christmas lights.

Since my house is older, I went with the ceramic c9 lights. The ones that look like this:


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I say really, because technically we've had clients for almost 2 weeks now (and technically I have a couple of people who supposedly want me to do their wills, but they haven't gotten back to me with the forms OR paid me yet - so I'm going to say that no attorney client relationship has been formed in their cases). If you'll recall, Leigh worked at ( Read more... )

I never update this anymore.

But I'm sworn in, have a few clients (no one has actually, you know, paid yet, but I have clients), and our office is open.

We even have a website! www.jptexaslaw.com