Fellow Appellate Blawger James J. O'Keeffe has a provocative post on his website which I picked up on Linked-In and commented there and he replied and I re-replied (and he may have re-re-replied by now). I will not go into significant detail as you can click the...
Overview of the October 2020 Term: A Year of Transition The Supreme Court began hearing cases for the term on October 5, 2020. The court’s yearly term begins on the first Monday in October and lasts until the first Monday in October the following year. This term, the...
Time for another mini-rant. A client of mine has been out of work through most of the pandemic and has struggled to get government assistance, as the rules for getting and maintaining unemployment were constantly shifting. She has a good work history as both a FOH...
Just a short observation: If I was as obsessive about proofreading these posts as I am about correcting them when I am reading them after I post them, there would be a lot fewer errors to correct.
This is not so much a "Soap Box" as it is a reflection on the concept of "thinking like a lawyer." This evokes the phrase heard by every law student that in Law School "You teach yourself the law, we teach you how to think like a lawyer." In truth, "thinking like a...
I send a lot of emails. I don't mean that I personally send a lot to friends and family -- my output in that region is pretty slim as we stay in touch via phone and zoom and social media. I also don't mean that I send a lot of emails in my professional capacity...
The Supreme Court of Virginia released one published opinion this morning. White v. Llewellyn is an interesting read if you find fraudulent conveyances of real estate interesting -- I do, because it one of the few areas of the law where a prima facie case gives rise...
So I have been retired from public service for just over seven months and I spent the first several of those months resting, avoiding COVID and just generally contemplating a future that would include the occasional appellate case that caught my fancy. While I have...
When people talk about the “trial of the century” – the acquittal of Orenthal James Simpson of the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman, eventually the topic will turn to the subsequent civil trial in which O.J. was found to be responsible for Goldman’s...
When I started this "Blawg" I indicated that I would leave the analysis of Supreme Court of Virginia Opinions to my friend Steve Emmert, and I have mostly done so. I did say, however, that I would occasionally comment on cases of particular interest or import, and I...