Due Diligence

To all those paper-and-pencil lawyer-types out there with a computer phobia and a death grip on the dictation machine: Indiana courts are now recognizing that due diligence requires, at a bare minimum, googling someone (.pdf). I expect others will follow suit shortly. Fortunately, your secretary likely already knows how to use the internet.

State 29 emailed me the link from Evan Brown's Internet Cases.

Hey, State? Nothing personal, but you really should re-define the term "vacation." Get sunshine. Drink copious quantities of alcohol whenever the occasion presents. Buy stupid stuff. Don't read anything more strenuous than a mindless beach book. Have adventures. Let go of the keyboard. . . .