Archive for February, 2011
Mansfield and Patricia were married in 1994, when both were in their 40′s. It was the second marriage for each, and they had children by the previous marriages. Patricia suffered health problems during the marriage, and she received a Phen-Phen settlement in 2001. On March 15, 2002, Patricia executed a will devising her entire estate [ READ MORE ]
Oscar weekend is nigh, which got me thinking about movies depicting lawyers, courts and the law. So I made a list of my own, personal favorites to share with you. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. (1962) Small-town lawyer Atticus Finch accepts the almost impossible task of representing a black man accused of assaulting a white woman in 1930′s Alabama. [ READ MORE ]
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As expected, Governor Barbour appointed Judge Leslie King of the Court of Appeals to replace Presiding Justice James Graves, who has left the Mississippi Supreme Court to serve on the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The press release from Chief Justice Waller: February 23, 2011 Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr. welcomed Justice [ READ MORE ]
It’s a familiar scene. The witness is asked a crucial question and suffers that dreaded lapse of memory. “I don’t remember,” she says, and the lawyer knows the answer is right there on counsel’s table. How do you recover? Unfortunately many lawyers follow the “I don’t remember” response with a leading question in an attempt to suggest [ READ MORE ]
If you’re practicing family law in Mississippi, you need to add professor Deborah Bell’s seminars to your calendar every year. There is one within an easy drive of where you are. This year, for the first time in my feeble memory, the seminars are in the summer. They are usually in May. You get a [ READ MORE ]
Has this ever happened to you? You suffer through a stupefying day of depositions of the opposing party and his witnesses, and you receive the signed, sworn copies, only to discover that the witnesses have used the errata sheets to rewrite their testimony. The points you thought you had conclusively nailed down are now unnailed. In the recent [ READ MORE ]
“First, make a roux.” How many times have you seen that line staring at you from a recipe for a Cajun dish? Does it give you a little shiver of anxiety? Do you wonder whether you should just skip that step? Roux is one of the holy mysteries of Cajun cooking, and if you’re going [ READ MORE ]
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Among the many facets of his notable life, often overlooked, is Abraham Lincoln’s career as a lawyer. It’s not hard to imagine the rough-hewn Lincoln in country courthouses questioning witnesses, holding forth to the court, and regaling juries. Even though he achieved respect of his peers and some wealth in his practice in his representation of [ READ MORE ]
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