Welcome
to my blawg (legal weblog)!
Blawging
is a departure for me. First, I’m old (having recently turned 48) and
falling well outside of the tech set. I do not even have my own ipod or cell
phone. I am still content with a legal pad and pen from which I have been
trying to wean myself. (I am or was particularly fond of categorizing
with different color felt-tip markers when I write – Monkish, I know).
However, downshifting and building a Third Wave law firm requires computer
savvy, paperless offices and netroots activism. It is hard for me because as
Jeff Foxworthy says, “I don’t even understand how Jell-O works”. It does
not help when my kids represent my entire IT department, and they will
not get out of bed on Saturday morning. But, I’m trying. It is not
that I do not have a vision; it is just that I wear bifocals.
Second,
blawging requires me to talk about myself, and I come from East
Texas where it is said: "The shallower the stream, the
louder the babble". In the past, when it has come to advertising my
personal accomplishments, I have always preferred to keep the stream as deep
and quite as possible.
I
do not care much for examining credentials over the worth of a person. I
often tell people that I graduated from Bob’s Really Big Law School (formally
Fred’s), and that I graduated in that part of my law school class that made the
upper half possible. In reality I graduated from South Texas College of
Law in Houston, Texas
in 1985. I began practicing consumer bankruptcy law in 1986. I personally
represented debtors in over 4,000 bankruptcies in the Eastern and Northern
District of Texas. I am licensed to practice in the State of Texas,
in all four federal judicial districts in Texas,
and before the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. I practice
law with my wife and law partner, Jane Newton, and legal beagle, Mandy, in the
Woodlands, Texas, just north of Houston.
Since 1998 my law firm has pretty much limited its practice to litigating
automatic stay and discharge injunction violations in all federal bankruptcy
courts in the State of Texas. Consumer bankruptcy attorneys from around the
state refer me cases. As I have gotten older my politics has grown more
liberal, and my music selections older. I believe no law office should be
without the best musical selections of Tony Bennett, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra
and Nat King Cole, among others. I believe that my best qualification is that I
still live in the piney woods of East Texas.
…
‘nuf said.
Your fans want a picture of Mandy.
Posted by: Shakhammer | February 21, 2006 at 03:42 PM