Over the weekend we hope to launch design changes. I hope you will like them and find this site easier to read. If everything is haywire, it will only be because the conversion was more difficult than anticipated. In this event, please be patient.Read More

Bar Represents Man Who Went Online to Arrange Divorce Posted on January 15, 2007 by Grant Griffiths at Kansas Family Law Blog. The North Carolina State Bar is taking up the case of a man who went online to try to arrange his divorce, only to find court officials wouldn’t accept the documents he downloaded...Read More

Life happens so quickly, it is seeming archaic to make resolutions for an entire year only once. Old habits are hard to break, so I plod on cementing goals for this year. As I am firming them, though, I do think I will add as a goal more frequent introspection, reassessment, and action planning. Adding...Read More

Lawyers take legal debates online is the story by Brandon Ortiz published today in the Herald-Leader about Kentucky lawyers authoring law weblogs. Kentucky Law Blog has an excellent post, Herald Leader Story Addresses Growing Law “Blogs” , speaking well for all of us interviewed for the article, of our fears in submitting to an interview...Read More

A Labor of Love sounds a little corny, but those who have been in law for a long time know what it means and it guides much of what we do in the profession of law.Read More

New Year’s goal setting has been a ritual for more than 30 years for me. First, I buy a lovely new hard bound journal. Then, I think. Then, I brainstorm with a very close friend or two. Next, I put pen to paper. The process consumes much of the month of January, but I look...Read More

As we were pondering our past and setting goals for our future, Richard D. Shapero died yesterday at age 63. He will always be remembered for taking the Kentucky Bar Association to the United States Supreme Court, which resulted in a significant opinion striking down bar restrictions on lawyer advertising. Shapero v. Kentucky Bar Association,...Read More

Ben Cowgill’s Legal Ethics Newsletter posted some jewels about internet journalism, Law-related blogs: following in the footsteps of Thomas Jefferson: If Thomas Jefferson were alive today, there can be little doubt that he would have a law-related blog. He loved to write. He loved to share information and ideas with other people. He once said...Read More

I owe an apology to Pieter M. Droppert of New Jersey Family & Divorce Law Blog. He posted a comment which I tried to “approve” on a PDA. I was out of the office at the time, hobnobbing with Pauline Tessler and Peggy Johnson and the collaborative family law group when I saw the email...Read More

Reconciling the independence of the judiciary with election campaigning is very difficult. It was timely, then, that I discovered that the ABA litigation section now has RSS feed. When I subscribed, some older articles were delivered, including a poignant one, A Lawyer’s Letter To His Daughter, by H. Thomas Wells, Jr., Chair, Section of Litigation...Read More