Tales from the Trenches

DO YOU WANT YOUR ATTORNEY GAGGED?

SHOULD YOUR LAWYER BE GAGGED?An Indianapolis lawyer indicates that he is facing a disciplinary proceeding for, among other things, something he said about a judge in a private email.  If he's right, the implications may be of concern to everyone. Paul…

Sex and Attorney Disbarment

HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A LAWYER/AUTHOR SCORNED Well, maybe the disciplinary commission... An Indiana lawyer became a former lawyer by writing a tell-all book about a former client. Joseph Stork Smith was disbarred last week for, among other…

Don't Slap the Lawyer in the Courtroom

I have joined the ranks of Americans who blog, reducing our nation's number of nonbloggers to double digits. [slogan align=]"The law is a ass" -- Mr. Bumble in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist[/slogan] Whether or not the law is an ass, its…

Why Was A Convicted Throat-Slasher On The Loose?

WHY WAS A CONVICTED THROAT-SLASHER RELEASED FROM PRISON EARLY?On September 26, 2005 Travis Marlett, then a student at Muncie Central High School, attacked a fellow student with a knife, slashing her throat. Fourteen months later, he was sentenced…

Does This T-Shirt Make My Odds of Frying Look Big?

“And God said: 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan.'” -- George Burns DOES THIS SHIRT MAKE MY ODDS OF FRYING LOOK BIG? In Ohio this past spring…