Written with my friend and colleague, Jenny Bradley of Triangle Smart Divorce in Cary, North Carolina. As family law attorneys, we’re asked a lot about ‘what sort of person don’t we want as a client’. There’s a few potential answers, of course, but one type of personality is almost always at the top of the...
All Post
A little over a week ago we published a blog piece about a great David Bowie song, Putting Out the Fire. We included a clip from Inglorious Basterds where it was used to memorable effect. Right away we posted it, something else hit us. Inglorious Basterds featured one of Brad Pitt’s best roles, Aldo Raine,...
A little while back there were a series of movies that explored unintended consequences. Films like Crash, Magnolia, Traffic, Babylon, all somewhat based on the theme that a series of random events come together over time to seamlessly intersect and effect, profoundly, the protagonists’ lives. These films were critically acclaimed for the most part and certainly...
You might remember that just before Thanksgiving we published a blog piece about HBO’s new show Divorce. We wrote that they really seemed to be getting a lot right – from the emotions, to counseling, to, well, the mechanics of the whole process. That was after three episodes. Now we’re deeper into the series and...
Mary Astor: From Lucy Langhanke to Hollywood Icon Lucy Langhanke. You’d have to be unhealthily obsessed with movies to know that’s the real name of Mary Astor, the great actress of the 1930s and ’40s. Audiences best remember her for a handful of things. She played Brigid O’Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon. She won an...
Many of you may have already seen that we’re re-branding the practice as Indigo Family Law. Nothing else is changing, we will still be focusing on family law (lucky that, otherwise …) with the occasional criminal matter – although we encourage our clients, former clients, friends and family to come to us first with any...