My office partner's secretary is getting a divorce, and her other, excellent lawyer withdrew. After we separately decided it wasn't good office practice to rep someone in your office, N. is now representing herself. She keeps asking me hypothetical questions, and I told her I'm not giving you legal advice, but the result is, she thinks she knows ( Read more... )

Sitting next to one empty chair, and then one parent in stripes. Still better than having your home floating out to sea!

I guess you feel a clutching of the heart when you actually know people in a target area. It was like some kind of monitoring. Anyway, I thought about y'all all night & woke up fully at four ( Read more... )

I guess what with getting second hand pepper spray (for the second time in my career), I forgot to mention that I was representing a young teen. Her parents, both felons, and her aunt, guilty of claiming benefits for her, were so busy blaming each other and telling me and the social worker how awful the girl is, that NO one wanted to bring her ( Read more... )

Hurricanes at least give you time to prepare. I have a fetching bike helmet to wear in my storm closet for tornado season, but I live 7 hours drive from the gulf. Check in once in a while, k?

Some idiot set off an OTC spray in the crowded courtroom. I walked into it with my client. The jail sergeant is reviewing the security cams. Where is Bull when you need him? I had to get my eyes flushed out with saline by jail nurse. It's usually not THAT exciting...had to put my jacket in my car and borrow my former secretary's black sweater ( Read more... )

I drove my mom's house on Friday, my birthday, in a rented KIA. I brought an iPhone, iPad, and Kindle with me, as she has free wifi in her town ( Read more... )

Hey there. Went to my mom's to watch one nephew play baseball and my niece (aged 7)dance in a Great Big Recital. (Oddly enough, I saw no attribution in the program for the use of the music. I don't think I'm a mandatory reporter for ASCAP) While there, my brother's intensely stupid redneck Lifetime Girlfriend nearly awoke my Kraken, and don't think ( Read more... )

I know it's from diligent watching of "The Wire," but I am seriously considering ordering a box of Utz chips from Amazon grocery ( Read more... )

In looking over my calendar for this week, I see that I have to try to convince people that I can't--nor anyone else--force a prosecutor to make an offer; and that the judge doesn't accept everything. Don't these folks watch the shows where the prosecutor wins ( Read more... )