Legal Updates

Our past few blog posts have focused on legal topics and advice, but the profession extends well-beyond the courtroom. Professional engagement is very important to us. I am the editor for the Litigation Section of the Atlanta Bar Association. A younger colleague of ours wrote a very engaging article for our newsletter. We wanted to…

Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.  -Abraham Lincoln Officer Motes’ Reflections: I have always been given the short end of the stick as they say and…

We have so much to be grateful for these days. Instead of a legal blog post for the end of the month, we want to share with all of you, one of our favorite Thanksgiving Day reflections and one of our favorite quick and easy recipes. Count your blessings instead of your crosses; Count your…

As we conclude the bar year and near the end of our YLD journey, I would like to take this opportunity to recognize the commitment made by my former law firm to supporting young lawyers, the life-long values fostered through the YLD and other members of the profession, and the importance of having a caring…

As we are beginning the Memorial Day weekend, we wanted to share with everyone the history behind Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.’s famous poem “Old Ironsides,” which was written on September 16, 1830: Aye tear her tattered ensign down Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in…