Vanity. Definitely my Favorite Sin

At the close of the the 1997 film, Devil's Advocate, Al Pacino, playing Satan, closes with this line:

From the Super Lawyers website

Vanity. Definitely my favorite sin.

There's no surprise that Devil's Advocate was about lawyers. What's funny though is that there is an industry built around exploiting this "sin".

For weeks I have been dodging a really official sounding woman - better to say, saleswoman - calling to congratulate me on being selected to be included in their Super Lawyers list. I didn't know I was up for this honor. Who did this to me! Reveal yourself!

Today, I got a copy of the Oklahoma edition of the Super Lawyers magazine. So I guess they have different magazine for each jurisdiction. (too many super lawyers for just one publication)

I also got the most important part of the Super Lawyers honor in the form of an opportunity to order my own certificate for $ 199 plus $ 16 shipping and handling or $ 259 plus $ 20 shipping and handling for a plaque.

Hey, this isn't just for lawyers. Have you ever been in the newspaper? There is a company out there that will frame your story, and send it to you. I did this once and the plaque is leaning against the wall in the office. Come see it, I'm important and so are you- but I have a plaque.

Norman Child Support Enforcement has left the building!

Effective as of now, the Norman Child Support Enforcement, which had been located on the third floor of the Cleveland County Office Building at 201 South Jones, has left the building.

Norman CSE is now located further down the road at 1000 East Alameda Street, Norman Oklahoma in the Alameda Square shopping center.
 
If you are planning a visit for a Child Support administrative hearing then you now have more options, including better parking, much more convenient access to your tax service at H&R Block, lunch at Tulio's Mexican Food or Pizza Shuttle, and you will be close to the Cat Clinic. I circled the office below in its new location in the Alameda Square shopping center.

Heartless and Malignant Punishment

Mark Twain wrote in The Innocence Abroad:

At certain periods it becomes the dearest ambition of a man to keep a faithful record of his performances in a book; and he dashes at this work with an enthusiasm that imposes on him the notion that keeping a journal is the veriest pastime in the world, and the pleasantest. But if he only lives twenty-one days, he will find out that only those rare natures that are made up of pluck, endurance, devotion to duty for duty's sake, and invincible determination, may hope to venture upon so tremendous an enterprise as the keeping of a journal and not sustain a shameful defeat.

This Blog is a record of my performance, puzzles, and problems from my life's work. That life's work is the practice of Divorce and Family law in Norman, Oklahoma. I've been in the practice of law for almost 10 years, with the vast majority of it grinding the Family Law mill in my own office right off Legacy Trail in Norman.

This is my world from my eyes and my life.

Why Divorce Hacker? I chose the word hacker for its meaning in the programmer subculture of someone who "who combines excellence, playfulness, cleverness and exploration in performed activities" and I am a Divorce Attorney. The practice of Family Law needs more excellence, playfulness and cleverness to make it more rewarding - and since this is my life's work,this is my attempt to bring more such qualities to it.