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Hurricane Katrina Divorces Improve Couples’ Lives By Nicole LaPorte As Hurricane Katrina shuttered homes and left families scattered, the New Orleans divorce rate spiked. Five years later, Nicole LaPorte reports on how the storm led some to reinvent their lives for the better. A week before Hurricane Katrina hit, Janelle Simmons was living a seemingly […]

In July, a U.S. District judge in Massachusetts, in Gill v. Office of Personnel, found part of a federal law allowing states (or perhaps the federal government) to refuse to recognize a gay marriage from another state to be unconstitutional. But he has just put a “stay” on his ruling to see if the government […]

I encourage anyone who has an opportunity to improve our system to volunteer to do so.

True, being a witness is inconvenient and time consuming.

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”

The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals today stayed the Order which overturned Prop 8, thereby precluding, for the time being, same sex marriages in California. This seems to be an attempt to avoid the potential conflict and uncertainty which would arise in the event same sex couples marry under the current state of the […]

But does that make fault irrelevant? In many states the answer is no.

What is amazing is who is on the panel of presenters. Among the five panelists will be David Boies, who just successfully argued and tried the Proposition 8 case.

What a time for the annual ABA meeting to be in San Francisco. I land in 20 minutes and it already feels like there is a buzz in the air. The plane is filled with Georgia lawyers all headed to various ABA meetings for different areas of the law. But it is in San Francisco […]