The Practice Corner: Keeping Your “Friends” Close

by Daniel DeWoskin
Trial Attorney
atlantatrial.com

In general, I am the type of person who can separate the views of others from who they are as people. This is important for everyone, but especially for lawyers. I engage in this exercise routinely with clients and opposing counsel, whose personal views on any given subject may be the opposite of my own. Even in the case when we are not able to see eye-to-eye, we can always respect one another’s right to have a different opinion.

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Practical Tips For Evaluating The Addict Client

phil-mccurdyPhil McCurdy
Law Office of W. Phillip McCurdy, LLC

 

It has been said that criminal attorneys deal with bad people behaving at their very best whereas family lawyers deal with good people behaving at their very worst. While there resides a certain element of truth in the statement, it grossly oversimplifies the family practitioner’s experience. The more accurate statement is that in family law, clients will exhibit every possible facet of their personality, good and bad, during the progress of their case.

Impaired individuals present special challenges as clients, which challenges cannot be responsibly whitewashed or ignored by their lawyer.

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Who’s New in DBA?

Please join us with a warm welcome for these newest members of the DeKalb Bar Association. Zachary North Arman Deganian The Orlando Firm John Edmonson The Orlando Firm Edward Still The Orlando Firm Steven Pritchett Robert E. Spears Jr. Laura…

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