Recently, I was chosen by Virginia Lawyers Weekly as one of its “Leaders in the Law” for 2010.

Back in October, I had an interesting experience by being interviewed as part of the “22 Tweets” project. Its creator, Lance Godard, describes the project in this way: “Real-time Twitter interviews with practicing lawyers who tweet.” The interview went out live, tweet by tweet, in a series of 22 tweets, over Twitter, the 140-character internet [...]

In my new role as counsel in the local government team at Sands Anderson Marks & Miller, I get great opportunities to get out of the office and meet lots of local government officials and groups all across Virginia. I am in the midst of a busy speaking season. I spoke to the Virginia Commissioner [...]

Why in the world would a local government attorney want to use Twitter? I, for one, have found it helpful and informative, and it need not invite further public scrutiny if properly used. What is Twitter? Twitter is an online social media service in which folks send out short messages of 140 characters or less [...]