It’s All About the Timing

Administrator | March 3, 2010

I was purging the office file cabinets of closed cases today and one of the files jogged my memory about a case I participated in a few years ago. As an attorney, it is always important to maintain professional decorum in court. In other words, spontaneous laughter by a lawyer listening to a [...]

Legal Advice

Administrator | August 25, 2009

Social Law dictates that if a lawyer is in a social setting and someone happens to mention that he or she is a lawyer, at least one person in the crowd will inevitably pull that lawyer aside and ask for legal advice. Sometimes the legal problem they describe rivals the most complicated fact pattern [...]

SPAM In A Can Beats SPAM in Your In-Box

Administrator | June 25, 2009

In the movie based on the Stephen King novel, Misery, Kathy Bates (who portrays the deranged nurse and “number one fan” responsible for rescuing James Caan’s character from a car accident) serves up a meatloaf enhanced with a secret ingredient known as SPAM. My recollection is that SPAM is a meat product sold in [...]