As a law student I was blessed to get a part time summer job shadowing the old law clerks who helped manage the dockets of the judges and document the outcome of cases being tried. Most of my Clerk Mentors (tormenters?) were retired military and were probably hired as backups to the armed bailiffs to…
Long gone are the venerable days when you hired an attorney for $1,000 and he actually visited the courthouse to search title to the property you were buying. The closing industry has become so competitive that most settlement fees are 1/3rd to 1/2 what they were 50 years ago! Attorneys had a monopoly in Virginia…
A potential client writes to our firm: Dear Anderson & Pittman: Good Morning. I have been discussing a deed transfer with my mother. Perhaps you can tell us if we even need to do a transfer of deed. I live in a home my mother owns and have paid the mortgage on the home from…
