This post heads in an entirely different direction from my usual fare.This is the last day of November 2011. Therefore, tomorrow is the first day of December. It also happens to be a Thursday. On the first Thursday in December in Marietta, Santa...
Month: November 2011
The Family Law Lawyer as Counselor
It is the existential question: what gives us meaning; what motivates us to do what we do? That is the key ingredient in practicing family law. As you can probably guess, when I'm wearing my counselor hat, much of what I do is work through people's stories, how they...
Unbundling has arrived!
I've been promising a big announcement for a while now and finally here it is: Unbundling has arrived!Unbundling is a completely different way of obtaining legal services. The norm is to hire an attorney to do whatever is necessary, whatever is called for,...
Meting out Justice
I'm on a theme here. As I've written elsewhere, members of my profession, and I think the public in general, are used to thinking about attorneys who practice criminal defense protecting their clients from the judges. That is a part of the criminal defense...
Not enough judges to go around – the rest of the story.
It's too late to say anything in depth or start any new diatribe. But I've heard from several parties implicated in last night's blog post that my post was not complete, and they are correct.When I'm discussing Child Support Services with a client, I often...
Barriers in family law.
We handle a lot of family law work at Of course, that's all we do. I suspect that we handle more family law than most. From my position at The Firm I get to see many, many cases carried out through all of our courts from...
On the street where we live.
I work in the courts, sometimes daily. After the horrific shooting in Fulton Superior Court in 2005, the trial attorneys' world grew more dangerous. In family law, we always know that danger can lurk from that nut-job opposing party who doesn't have any better...