Kentucky Law Blog celebrates its one year anniversary, with 100,000 hits, give or take a few. Kudos and thanks for: 1. Providing a timely forum for the goings-on in Kentucky law, practice of law, judicial and legislative news and commentary, appeals decisions, volunteer needs and opportunities, professional organization news, and all the other law related...Read More

This jewel is from Kristin A. Schuler-Hintz, Esq. ,GORDON D. CRUSE, APLC of San Diego, who kindly granted permission to repost. While it is San Diego specific, I have seen a Louisville one recently, and have inserted the local corresponding neighborhoods. The attached graphics at the end are funny, too. I don’t tell lawyer jokes...Read More

Many of us have a goal of a paperless office. Evan Schaeffer’s The Illinois Trial Practice Website has an interesting posting by Ernest Svenson on this topic. Despite his caution, he links to two good articles, Organizing Cases Electronically and Managing Electronic Case Files.Read More

The Lexington Herald-Leader published AP coverage of the Nevada judge who was shot earlier this month. “Family Court Judge Chuck Weller, shot by a man who witnesses said was angered by the handling of his divorce, turned his first public appearance since the shooting into a plea to make family courts a less confrontational place.”...Read More

As client handouts go, The AAML’s Stepping Back From Anger is the best for divorcing parents. The brochure is available for purchase at a nominal cost ($1 per pamphlet) online.Read More

Online Guide to Mediation reports that “Appreciative Intelligence” author Carol Metzker has posted at Idealawg, “where you can read more about this innovative approach to tackling difficult problems.”Read More

Online Guide to Mediation is saying the nicest things about us. ” I’ve described this excellent blog as one which offers “lucidly written, intelligent analysis” of legal issues, and I stand by that. This blog consistently delivers the goods. Although its Louisville-based author Diana Skaggs tracks Kentucky divorce and family law, her blog has a...Read More

The Arizona Family Law Blog reports and links to a 9th Circuit case ruling on the constitutional liberty interests a noncustodial parent has to the care and companionship to a child. Update: Case digest from the Family Law Prof Blog.Read More

Great news from the Kentucky Law Blog! The Kentucky Academy of Trial Attorneys is forming a Domestic Law Section. The organizational meeting will be July 11, 2006, 9:30 am at KATA headquarters. This section will fill a badly needed void in the professional development of family lawyers in Kentucky. No other family law organization has...Read More

Collaborative Counselors, ABA Journal, June,2006 discusses Collaborative law, and notes its greatest growth in the family law context. The most controversial aspect of collaborative practice is that if either party elects to go to court, both attorneys are disqualified. “Ultimately, as one of the parties, I can decide not to settle. I can choose to...Read More