Blog Changes: Organized Links

The links section was getting pretty messy. Not even I could keep track of what went where any more. As you'll notice, it's been organized into better defined categories. Because of ongoing changes and progress in the Family Rights and Men's Rights movements, I expect there will be another complete overhaul sometime in the near future.

New Links added:

• Lawyers for Change
• Overlawyered.com

Lawyers for Change is out of the UK, but has already expanded its influence through similarly named sites into Canada, the US, and Australia. The sites aren't ready for prime time yet, but they're coming. You have to love their Vision Statement:

Our vision is of a profession that really makes a difference in society, that makes a stand for forging relationships (whether business or personal), that heals wounds and brings wisdom and experience that makes us indispensable in all sectors of society: lawyers offering solutions rather than problems, getting people to be responsible rather than full of blame. In this way, our clients and society will experience us as contributors and our potential will be fulfilled."

The changes in the Family Court of Australia (FCoA) and Federal Magistrates Courts (FMC) reflect the new thinking in the role of lawyers and the courts.

The link for Overlawyered.com goes directly to the results for Australia. Although only a few of the articles refer to Family Law, all the articles illustrate that seems to have become epidemic in the legal profession in Australia. Some of the cases can cause a lot of head-shaking, and there is a lot of room for humour.
This stuff could give John Cleese a whole new career -- and it's the law?

Overlawyered dot com on Australian legal events "Disillusioned by a growing list of rules imposed by recruiting agencies and shopping centres to guard against litigation, men who have brought smiles to the faces of thousands of young West Australians for decades are reluctantly deciding to call it quits."

I think we all had to wonder a little about criminalizing Santa Claus.

With all the press about obesity, how long will it be til someone tries to sue a fast food outlet for making them fat? (Oooopss ... It's already happened; and happening.)