by Ryan McKeen The July 2009 Connecticut Bar Exam starts on Wednesday. You may be asking who is the Gipper and why should I win it for him? Don’t worry about either of those things. Just continue reading. It’s A Connecticut Law Blog tradition to publish this post on the day before the bar exam. … Read more
by Ryan McKeen Before leaving work on Friday, I read an article in the Law Tribune about the horrible Tyler divorce. The article asks the question what can be done to prevent this from happening again? This question haunted me this weekend. All divorce is stressful. The amount of loss one suffers in a divorce … Read more
by Ryan McKeen Talking on a cell phone is so 5 years ago. Now phones are all about texting, chatting, emails, twitter and facebook. More and more when I’m on the road, I see drivers on their iPhone or Blackberry typing away. Have you ever tried to wrestle an iPhone or Blackberry away from someone? … Read more
by Ryan McKeen I am a total and complete nerd. Yesterday in the mail I received a CD from the ABA Section of Litigation. The CD contained 6 podcasts. Each podcast is approximately 10 minutes in length. Being the technophile that I am, I had no use for the CD format. Why put in a … Read more
by Ryan McKeen Me on Facebook: Writing brief (4 am). CT Attorney Friend: You need a vacation. Me on Facebook: Dreaming about getting chewed out by judges for having a red cover to my appellee brief. CT Attorney Friend: You need a vacation. My oustanding friend is giving me outstanding advice and not billing me … Read more
By Ryan McKeen That’s the question that ran through my mind as I scrolled Twitterific this morning and saw “Vicious $99 million goes back to Court.” Link. I know divorce and personal injury are different worlds though I’m sure some would beg to differ. I’m not sure what the highest personal injury settlement or verdict is … Read more
by Ryan McKeen When I first logged into Westlaw nearly 8 years ago I thought it was awesome. A whole law library on my laptop. There was no need to run to school to pull books when I could read cases from my apartment. The problem with Westlaw is that it’s virtually the same search … Read more
by Ryan McKeen If you read enough law blogs you’ll learn that going to law school is about the worst choice one can make in life. Too much debt, too many lawyers, too few jobs, too little pay, too much stress and God forbid you might actually have to represent a person instead of a … Read more
by Ryan McKeen Don Rumsfeld was right. You need to know your unknown unknowns. In law there are things you know, things you know you don’t know, and things you don’t know you don’t know. It’s always best to know something. Research can turn things you know you don’t know into things that you know … Read more
by Ryan C. McKeen I spend most of my day giving advice in one form or another. It’s a lot of “do this” and “don’t do that.” The learning curve for a young lawyer is steep. All of the sudden you have clients not named “Donald Defendant” or “Polly Plaintiff” and no court is ever … Read more