With my recent announcement that I accept Bitcoin as payment for legal services, I got a lot of questions from lawyers about the ethics of such practice and the validity of this new hot “money.” Because it is so new and Congress only first explored the new cryptocurrency in mid-November, many attorneys are asking questions about this new… Read more »
Suppression hearings. What are they? Very simply, they are a legal mechanism defense attorneys use to exclude evidence that is considered to be inadmissible at trial. For example, if there was a 4th or 5th Amendment violation when the individual was arrested. Simple as that. Now, it may sound good on paper, but in practice… Read more »
It is not every day that you get to chat on the phone with an author of a book. Let alone an author of one of the most interesting books (to a nerdy lawyer like myself) on a topic that is new to you and you love to learn about. The author is Mark D…. Read more »
Just over three weeks ago I got an idea from a friend who stumbled upon a recent Reddit post. What happened was that a lawyer who specializes in small business litigation started a Reddit ‘ask me anything’ (AMA) in the small business section. He prompted people to ask him legal questions about their business and… Read more »
My first criminal court case was an expungement in Hardin County, Kentucky on November 1, 2013 at 9:00am. The woman I was expunging a record for had a DUI 5 years ago, and has not had any new offenses since. Boy, was she happy to finally have the black mark off her permanent criminal record…. Read more »
My name is Larry Forman, and I am the DUI guy. I moved to Kentucky at the beginning of my senior year of High School and went to the University of Louisville both for my undergrad and law school. I fell in love with the Commonwealth immediately and knew that I will some day set… Read more »