As you may have noticed from today’s post from Barry Knobel, my web site is open to guest bloggers. It’s a win-win situation: guest blogs increase traffic to my web site but allow the guest access to my 300+ subscribers and 4,000+ monthly visitors. Guest blogs prominently note the author, with links to the [...]
Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category
Why I love my scanner and Adobe Acrobat
Starting about 2003, I would occasionally hear lawyers lecture on “the paperless office.” While I consider myself on the leading edge of technological savvy for family law attorneys (which is definitely not the leading edge for many other professions), I considered such attorneys to be what my IT guy, Dean White, calls “the bleeding edge.” [...]
The Honorable Frances P. Segars-Andrews: An Appreciation
The Honorable F.P. Segars-Andrews leaves the family court bench soon. To read some comments on the internet there were a number of litigants extremely angered by her decisions. Over the years I have had more than one client greatly upset by one of her rulings. Yet I have always defended her to my clients and [...]
Frequently Asked Question on organizing a family court file
Having had one more potential client show up today with a stack of disorganized paperwork, I finally decided to publish a memo I had drafted years ago: Suggestions for Organizing Family Court Files. I hope it’s useful.
Shameless plug
Will Moredock, columnist for the Charleston City Paper has plugged my blog on the City Paper’s web site: Gregory Forman – A Lawyer Who Understands More Than Law. Thanks Will!
Why shouldn’t lawyers have sunny dispositions?
Last week I hosted an extern from Bryn Mawr College who was interested in a career in family law. Facebook messaging her mother [a physician at Harvard married to a lawyer who also works for Harvard] this evening to thank her for a lovely gift sent in appreciation, she [the mother] mentioned: “She [the daughter] [...]
New Frequently Asked Question: “What’s the difference between a family court temporary order and final order?”
In 2006, after the Supreme Court changed the family court administrative rules from the 270 day rule (after 270 days from filing, unresolved family court cases were struck from the active roster but the temporary orders remained in effect) to the 365 day rule (after 365 days from filing, unresolved family court cases were dismissed [...]
Calvin Morris: An Appreciation
Today [January 22, 2010] I attended the funeral of Calvin Morris. Calvin would be on the short list of favorite clients. I first met Calvin when his disability attorney asked me to assist him. A family court judge had sentenced Calvin to jail for failing to pay his child support, which Calvin had fallen behind [...]