Here are 10 things I'm thankful for in my domestic practice:
10. Every client who, in my early days, swept me summarily into his or her emotional state. I over-litigated those cases because I didn't want to disappoint my clients, but it was better to care too much and find the right degree of professional detachment than never to have cared at all.
9. The judges I can predict.
8. The judges I can't predict (for those times I know the predictable judges will rule against me!).
7. Mediators who don't waste their opening comments. Marshall Karro and Mark Riopel of Charlotte are my favorite examples. Though they have different styles, each has a knack of challenging the parties from the very beginning to raise the level of civility and objectivity in order to reach an agreement. It's really something to see.
6. My Mooresville High School Mock Trial team. I still impress judges with how well I know the rules of evidence. Every season I teach the basics to my students, and I end up re-teaching myself.
5. Parents who understand that children of divorce do just fine, IF Mom and Dad let them.
4. My iPad, for making it possible to draft orders anywhere, thus sparing the world my unintelligible scribblings on handwritten Memoradum of Judgment forms.
3. My paralegal Leona. She does all the dirty work from discovery, to drafting ED Affidavits, to talking clients down from countless ledges when I'm not available.
2. My firm, Homesley & Wingo Law Group, for keeping the lights on and my Lexis subscription current. Having a solid infrastructure behind you makes a huge difference if you want to handle high-end cases.
1. Clients who are committed fighting for their future, not fighting over their past.
Saturday, November 24, 2012
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