I am Tom Freeland, a lawyer in Oxford, Mississippi. The picture in the header is my law office. I'm on Twitter as NMissC
I started (co)blogging as NMC in early 2008 on the Folo blog, (with coblogger Lotus); that blog went on hiatus in March, 2009. In 2005, I covered Fifth Circuit cases for the (now defunct) Appellate Law and Practice blog.

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Sunday Evening Various

I’ve got three different single-topic posts in the works and hope to have them up later tonight.  At least one should be of interest to those wanting something about Scruggs.  In the meantime, here’s some things of interest:

Preservation in Mississippi is a group blog new to me that I highly recommend.  Because of a link [...]

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Thursday Open Thread

Sitting in depositions, won’t be posting, so you folks talk among yourselves.

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Where’d you go?

In court in Aberdeen.
Let’s call this an open thread and hope that the craziness is kept to a reasonable minimum.

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Open Thread

I was asked, everyone has been well-behaved with lots of opportunities for annoying responses, and so here’s one.

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St. Clair McKelway on insurance, embezzlement, arson, and counterfeiting

Here are two passages about insurance and crime from St. Clair McKelway, a New Yorker who, like his contemporaries A.J. Liebling and Joseph Mitchell specialized in writing about low-lifes, McKelway being more focused in crime while Liebling and Michell liked con-men, boxers, gypsies, and the like.
When the first news stories appeared in the New York [...]

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Friday Morning Various

Here’s another blog post about WestLawNext, with the opening theme that of course they’re trying to addict law students to it (law schools are not paying a dime more to get the new product).  Also: “Alas, Greg, we are and have always been dealing with used car sales staff at West.”

Check [...]

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Off the Road Again and open thread

Just off the road, after court in South Mississippi, which left the natural option of a trip to New Orleans to see my kids, eat some of Donald Link’s incredible gumbo, catch some beads thrown by Drew Brees (pictoral evidence below), and to return to contemplate what tweaks I might make to my own gumbo.  [...]

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Tuesday Morning Various

The Commercial Appeal has a nice where’s-Harold piece (or “where’s Harold Ford voting”):

Despite talk about a possible run for the U.S. Senate seat in New York, former Memphis Congressman Harold E. Ford Jr. still lists a condo on South Front Street as his home.He shows the Downtown address as his primary residency on records with [...]

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Wednesday Morning various

The Commercial Appeal reports that John Lee Wicks, the accused Las Vegas federal courthouse shooter, has a violent past in Memphis, where he killed his brother year in a fit of anger in 1974.
The Appeal has an excellent survey of Willie Mitchell’s career in its obituary today.  Andria Lisle’s personal memories of Mitchell are in [...]

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Sunday Morning Various: Jerry Mitchell sends DeLaughter off to jail, Memphis dining & music 2009, strange occurances at the Cotton Bowl, etc.

Some things that caught my eye this morning:

Jerry Mitchell has a story about the fact that Bobby DeLaughter reports to prison in McCreary, Kentucky on Monday.  The story has no news in it (except possibly the note that DeLaughter has not responded to the state bar’s petition to disbar him) and a lot of comment [...]