(Basic up front disclaimer: These are over simplified concepts, and this post is not to be taken as legal advice.  If you want legal...

Photo by Oleg Volk (not yet edited) Nothing in here is meant to be taken as legal advice and it is all extremely general statements of...

(This was my first legal post on this blog.  It made it big on FB, around 150 shares, still no clue why, but I’m glad because these are a...

June hits and suddenly everyone’s a Constitutional scholar.  On Friday the Supreme Court came out with the biggest decision of the year,...

(Basic up front disclaimer: These are over simplified concepts, and this post is not to be taken as legal advice.  I’m not your lawyer,...

1. What president ran on the promise that if elected, he would not seek a second term? 2. Who was the only man in US history to serve as...

Something I’ve noticed in TV shows lately are they really don’t like to do their homework.  I’m sure this happens in every show depicting...

This is my legal series about IP law (named Trademark Tuesdays because I have a thing for alliteration  🙂  As always, this is to be...

This is a series I’m doing every Thursday.  I’ll give you 3 to 7 questions on the law, literature, writing and/or science, and you answer...

This is my legal series about IP law (named Trademark Tuesdays because that sounds better 🙂  As always, this is to be taken as...

This is the first in a new series I’m doing every Thursday.  I’ll give you 3 to 7 questions on the law,literature, writing and/or...

It’s another installation of Legal Lecture Amie.  Today – Trademarks! And, as always, this is to be taken as entertainment and not as any...

This weekend I’m volunteering at my law school and judging the 1L Mock Trial competition.  You don’t take Evidence until your second year...

A little while ago I posted an article on the law for writers.  It got lonnnnnng, so long that people told me it was too difficult to...

(Image by Oleg Volk) Nothing in here is meant to be taken as legal advice and it is all extremely general statements of complex and often...

Have you ever watched a show or read a book where the characters are in your profession and the writers just get so many things wrong?  I...

(This, as always, is all general ranting and a little bit of simplified law, and not to be taken as any kind of legal advice.  Also, I’m...

At Killer Nashville, one of the big books everyone seemed to love is this one on forensics. And why not?  It’s a fantastic resource if...

(As always, this isn’t to be taken as any kind of legal advice, just some very simplified basics for the lay person, and a little bit of...

(As always, this isn’t to be taken as any kind of legal advice, just some very simplified basics for the lay person, and a little bit of...