A convoluted (legal) career path

Posted Sunday, November 20th, 2016 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Miscellaneous, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys

November 18th marked the 23rd anniversary of my opening my solo practice. Over the past decade I’ve had the opportunity to formally and informally mentor

News and events

Posted Wednesday, January 30th, 2013 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Continuing Legal Education, Miscellaneous, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific

My newest mentee, Audrey R. Brown, has her website up here. [caption id="attachment_9914" align="aligncenter" width="250"] Photograph of Audrey R. Brown[/caption] Audrey is a graduate of

Thank you

Posted Friday, November 18th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Miscellaneous, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public

I opened my law practice exactly eighteen years ago today.  Unlike many of the young attorneys I admire, such as Jenny Moser, T. Ryan Phillips or

Oral argument on April 7th: come see me crash and burn?

Posted Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Miscellaneous, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific

I’ve been handling appeals since I graduated law school, including drafting two appeal briefs in 1991 before being sworn in as a member of the

The men don’t know but the little girls understand[1] (or, I took my nine year old daughter to a rave and neither of us ended up regretting it)

Posted Friday, February 11th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Book, Film or Music Reviews, Miscellaneous, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public

A desire to participate in communal ecstatic experiences would appear to be an innate part of human existence.  Almost every culture in every time has

Idle thoughts while preparing to try a custody case

Posted Tuesday, February 1st, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Miscellaneous, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public

Wasting a moment surfing the web while preparing yesterday morning for my first custody trial in a few years, I gravitated to this poem by

Guardian ad litem training: past, present and future

Posted Friday, January 14th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Miscellaneous, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific

On January 28, 2011, I will be moderating and speaking at the South Carolina Bar’s annual guardian ad litem training.  This will be the third

Meet Jenny R. Moser: Another Charleston County family law blogger

Posted Saturday, December 4th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Child Custody, Miscellaneous, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, South Carolina Specific

I started my blog in April 2009 and until recently, I have had the field of Charleston area family law blogs to myself.  While a

Emancipation day

Posted Thursday, October 14th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Miscellaneous, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public

My oldest daughter, Rebecca, turns eighteen today and we are celebrating what I call “emancipation day.” When I talk to most mothers about how they

Facebook and the Legal World: Can Law and Culture co-exist?

Posted Wednesday, October 6th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney-Client Relations, Guardians Ad Litem, Miscellaneous, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Rules of Professional (Lawyer) Conduct

This weekend I asked for guest blogs.  Having recently seen David Fincher’s excellent new movie about the birth of facebook, The Social Network, Taylor Long’s

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