Oct 12, 2018 | Family Law, general law
From time to time I am asked how I cope, spending so much time dealing with peoples’ problems. I find people fascinating, so I can’t say that there has been a whole lot of heavy lifting. I have also been fortunate to work with great people, who make the burden of...
Oct 4, 2018 | Family Law, general law
In an age when women are graduating from law school at the same rate as men, why are they leaving the profession in such high numbers by age 50 and what can be done about it? These are questions Miami’s Hilarie Bass studied during her term as ABA president. The...
Sep 25, 2018 | Family Law, Florida Law, general law, government
As compared to the lawyers who appear before them, trial judges have much less control of the outside causes of stress. For example, a family lawyer can control his or her stress level by guiding the case, as in the use of experts, and the use of mediation. There is...
Sep 13, 2018 | Divorce, Family Law, Florida Law, general law
Valuing and dividing military pension plans poses special challenges to family law practitioners and parties in family law cases. The military’s defined benefit pension plan is not governed by ERISA, and maintains a unique and complicated set of plan rules....
Aug 9, 2018 | Family Law, general law
Recently, Judge Lane Smith, of Leon County, wrote an open Letter to a Law School Graduate.1 I find it to be instructive to all law school graduates, old and young. Here, I have pulled out some of the highlights. I place a comment after each quote. Diligently...
Jul 13, 2018 | Family Law, general law, government
“The right, which had for years been hostile to and very nervous about a strong First Amendment, has rediscovered it,” said Burt Neuborne, a law professor at New York University. The Citizens United campaign finance case, for instance, was decided on free-speech...
