I’m starting what I hope to make a regular feature on this blog (or possible another—we’ll see how it goes). As a lawyer, I’m often dismayed, discouraged, and disheartened at the way the profession is depicted in popular media. But, the usual lawyer jokes aside, there’s also the matter of getting the details right, which can be difficult in that the “answer” is so often a matter of multiple circumstances that require a case-by-case analysis, i.e., basically, we fall back a lawyer’s favorite words: it depends.
