How Lawyers Can Use History to Attract Up-Market Clients

law historyThere is a natural synergy between lawyers and history. At its core, case law is creativity in the context of precedent. But there is more synergy between the law and history than that. History and the law both celebrate great minds that have preceded our own; great minds that have shaped our present and will shape our future.

As a group, history-minded people are more well-educated and financially secure than the average person. People involved in their local history are deeply rooted in their respective communities, and are often its leaders. They comprise a group of potential clients that may be desperately in need of like-minded representation under the law.

As any practicing attorney or law firm knows, retaining a lawyer is an exercise of trust. This means a lawyer’s stature and reputation are critical to his or her success. In New England, history can be a means of increasing the perceived stature and reputation of your firm.

The study of history is the study of context, just like the study of case law. How did an event happen? Why? What was the context? Who was involved? How were participants shaped by their history and the times Read the rest of this entry »

The Law of Attraction Vs The Law of God – Are Either Real Or Just Someone’s Imagination?

law historyNow this is an interesting question since the part of the mind that determines your Success or Failure throughout life for the most part is the subconscious and it doesn’t know the difference between real or imagined.

One of the biggest controversies seems to be between Traditional Christians and New Agers (whatever a New Ager is). Now exactly what is the difference? I don’t think anyone can really answer that. They seem to simply have different interpretations of Gods instructions as to how things are supposed to work in this world and can’t agree on Gods Laws (or as some call it the Laws of the Universe), but neither do different denominations of Christianity and various Religions. So what is new here?

Many people believe the Law of Attraction is a fad, or is something new. It is not new. It is as old as time itself and has been discussed and written about throughout history and dates back to early teachings in the Old Testament. As a matter of fact there is as much written in the Bible about the Law of Attraction as any other writing in recorded history. What does “According to your faith…”, “As a Read the rest of this entry »

Child Support Laws and the History

law historyChild Support

Child support can be traced back to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In the young ages of the nineteenth century, the United States courts that handled cases of marital breakdowns and divorce, discovered that the present laws did not provide for a support action. The United States had inherited many of the English laws in that time, and those laws discovered that a father had a non-enforceable duty to support his children. In fact, English precedents forbade and third party from Read the rest of this entry »