Kentucky Law Review

New Look, Old stuff - And as always looking for legal commentary from those in the know

I decided to try some of the pre-made themes from TypePad rather than using my own blog headline image.  Why?  Cleaner, quicker, easier to name a few.  Plus, content is king and not cosmetics.

Besides, I thought I'd push my mug and bio around a little bit.

I can't believe its now been nearly six years since I opened up this Pandora's box of legal punditry. The ride's been good, and I'm always looking to make this venue available for others to offer their thoughts on topics.  Thoughts that are not the final word but hopefully fuel for the debate.   Our appellate court judges live and operate in relative seclusion in their appellate puzzle palaces.  Your commentary can provide a breath of fresh air to the debate, avoid the rigors of an amicus brief, and educate us all.

As for posts and postings and posters.  Feel free to email me original commentary to post, and I will reciprocate with credit and links to your own web site. This helps share some good info with others, and helps you market what you are doing. 

Adroit erudition can erupt in us all.  Let'er rip!

Bloggers do have a personal life! Not so sunny beaches in Florida.

Contrary to a popular misconception.  I do have a life, a wife, a job, and the ability to take a break.

Earlier this year Diane and I took a week off for sun, fun and relaxation at the southern tip of Florida.  However, we hit Florida during a very, very cold snap.

I am also showing off my Leonard DiCaprio impersonation on the bow of the ship, but the captain stopped me before I got to look majestically out to sea on the bow and required me to have both hands on the rail.

I guess I am not the King of the World.  Well, I am still Paw Paw.

And yes, Mike and Diane cruising Key West as bad boy and girl bikers.  ;)

COURT CASES: Jefferson Jury finds in favor of jeweler in case of family jewels

From Courier Journal:

Jeweler doesn't have to refund money to Brown-Forman heirs

A Jefferson Circuit jury unanimously decided Tuesday night that Louisville jeweler Jim Jackson does not have to refund $800,000 to the family of former Brown-Forman Corp. chairman Robinson S. Brown Jr. for a necklace he sold Brown in 2005

Yes, I have been AWOL from this blog most of May.  Hope, I have not lost you, but I will try and do better.  Sometimes, you just gotta take a break. 

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SITE UPDATE: Sorry for the downtime last week. Explanation follows.

Some may have noticed that the Kentucky Law Review (www.KentuckyLawBlog.com) and the Kentucky Court Report (www.KyCases.com) were "down".

Technically speaking, the two sites were not down, but the URL or internet web addresses got messed up as I tried to clean them up a little and make sure you could get to either site whether you typed in the "www" with the domain name or not.

They are now both working, plus I did a "forward" so that if you type in www.KentuckyLawReview.com, you are automatically forwarded to www.KentuckyLawBlog.com.

Sorry, for the hiatus.  We were there all along, but you just could not find us.

Our Kentucky Court Report - www.KyCases.com - consistently rated in the top TEN of nation's blawgs

Excuse me for being proud of my/our baby, the "Kentucky Court Report", which can be found at http://www.KyCases.com.   

At the www.Blawgsearch.com site, the Kentucky Court Report has been rated consistently in the top five or six blawgs nationally.   Your support and readership are appreciated.

You will also note that the Indiana Law Blog (www.IndianaLawBlog.com) is also currently number 2.  Pretty good stuff for two sites which are state specific with their information, content, and approach.

Interestingly enough, the Kentucky Court Report surpassed this blog last year in popularity and shows that content based solely upon legal information with no editorializing or commentary is needed and used by the typical attorney.

We now have nearly 700 subscribers by email; not counting site visitors and RSS subscribers.  Please help spread the word this week and email the Kentucky Court Report to a friend or business associate. 

Where else can you get emailed to you the minutes each week of SCOKY and COAKY which contains the links to all decisions rendered that week; monthly argument calendars with issues, dates, times, etc.; news stories; and digests of each published decision. 

Just the essential information.

And if  you want the water cooler stuff with news stories and more.  Then subscribe to this blawg.

And if you want emailed (or RSS'd) to you the weekly decisions from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, then go to www.SixthCircuitCases.com.

Thanks.  Michael Stevens.

SITE: Publication guidelines for posting received stuff - please clean up the text formatting and fonts and links!

Caveat CLE providers and other folks emailing info to me!

I post a lot of stuff as a public service to get the information out; especially press releases and emails.  However, it seems the emailers are so bent on "prettying up" their email with obscure fonts, bullets, formatting, etc. that the content gets lost in the flourish and copying and pasting takes much more time and energy that I am willing to spend.

Soooooo.  If you want me to post your email or information or press release, then simplify it with plain text and formatting to be both informative and easy to cut and paste into the blog.

Thanks.

BLOG: Opinions, opinions, and more opinions

Just a reminder that this blog is opinions, opinions, and more opinions. It's content reflects my opinion and not necessarily the opinion of any other person living now or at any time. It is not legal advice to anyone, anywhere, or anyhow. It does not solicit business, legal or otherwise, and emails to the contrary are not answered. Thus all those ousted regimes with hidden and secret bank accounts can please leave me alone!

Looking Ahead, Looking Back, Looking at Resolutions

The new year marks two and a half years of blawging with a couple of years before that emailing the LawWire to nearly 2000 lawyers in the state.

Looking Back: In 2007 we had

• 150,000 visitors to the Kentucky Law Review/Blog site.
• In 2007, we exceeded 4000 actual posts.
• KLB has 425 subscribers to the site via email and RSS.
• One "theme" change for all the blawgs.
• Kentucky court report aka KYCases.com was in the top ten blawgs during December and has over 600 email subscribers!
• Louisville LawWire blawg was added to simply post the lawwires each week and nothing more.
• And all FREE for you.  Much thanks to our volunteer editors who rarely require me to bring out the whips.

Looking ahead:

• Too much work for one pair of hands.
• Reduced posts in the form of separate commentary and opinions.
• Looking for some voluntary editors to shoulder the load at the Kentucky Law Blog and some lawyer digesters for the Kentucky Court Report.  One per week? One per month?  A couple per year regardless of the topic???

Resolutions:

These are separate and apart from the blawg but might have some impact as I try to accomplish the following:

• More time spent in daily devotionals and church.
• More time with wife and grandkids (and the kids too).
• More time at the gym - lose 10 per cent weight and resume running in the Mini each year.
• More patience with others and a little more compassion and understanding.

To that end, the Kentucky Court Report and the LawWire will stop with the 2008 minutes of posting the "Not To Be Published" Decisions.  Last year due to time constraints, we quit digesting the NPO's but at least listed them with a few word topical description.  However, there will be even less time, so the NPO's are found in the minutes and can be roughly figured out by names of the cases and courts whether they are criminal, family law, workers compensation, and insurance.  Simply clicking on them and there you are.

The Kentucky Court Report will continue.  It's strictly a content-driven blog which is very unique as it provides digests of each published appellate decision from COAKY and SCOKY.  Plus the month argument schedules for COAKY and SCOKY are listed, with a SCOKY plus of links to the NKY brief banks and the COA decision from below.  Discretionary review and immediate posts of the minutes will continue.

The Kentucky Court Report has been one of the top ten blawgs posted at Blawgsearch.com and although they do not have ALL the blawgs (legal blogs), they sure list a lot of them.  Over 3000 blawgs!  http://blawgsearch.justia.com/

I am humbled by the reception, and challenged by the acceptance of this blawg.

I am most appreciative of those lawyers who routinely digest decisions for us and would always welcome additional lawyers willing to digest just one per month or per week.  You might not be able to shine the whole building with your work, but you can shine a light in one corner of one room so others might see.

Please consider adding your name to the list.