His fine work as issue editor proves that he may have been just a tad self-effacing. Children Are the Issue Children and what s right for them is an issue on which everyone is expert. A lawyer may never have been a plaintiff or a defendant or even a witness, but statistics demonstrate a 98 percent probability that the average lawyer was once a child. More than a goodly number of lawyers have procreated, and a significant number of lawyers even spend substantial portions of their nonworking hours in the presence of children. Children s issues crop up in all areas of practice, from real estate to personal injury.
Few witnesses can turn the smoothest trial lawyer to jelly like a child can.
I ve been there and so have you, expecting the child witness to parrot exactly the version of the gospel she promised the day before in the inner sanctum of the office. Leveling the Playing Field Brand spanking new children have special appeal, connoting freshness, renewal, hope, beginning, and a future of untapped, limitless potential. Larry Ramirez writes about the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act s efforts to integrate these children into the mainstream, and John Thomasset writes about estate planning concerns for parents with special needs children. Children are unquestionably expensive habits, whether they ve developed appetites for Mom s cooking or Nikes, but collecting child support from federal employees and military personnel often makes squeezing blood from a turnip seem like child s play. Joan Burda explains how to extract those funds.