When I was in law school at the University of North Carolina, I remember learning and studying and sweating out an exam question regarding the principle of adverse possession. I also remember thinking there was no way I was ever going to need all this weird real property law in the 20th and the soon […]
My wife wishes I were more “handy.” With a design degree and architectural employment experience, she laments the fact that I don’t have an unlimited general contractor’s license and can’t put up crown molding, or refurbish a kitchen, or install a new shower. Some things, after a free consultation at Lowe’s or Home Depot, I […]
Every attorney who tries cases to juries has lost cases they should have won, and won cases they should have lost. One local judge told me once that he figured this out years ago when he was served with a paternity suit one morning and a divorce on the grounds of impotency that same afternoon…and […]
“Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties, and that in its government the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary. They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness […]