SHERIDAN: LAWYER

If you've arrived here because you are looking for a lawyer for your matter, or that of a friend or relative, you may want to know something about what kind of a lawyer you are looking at.  Please feel free to look around and see.

The items on this site consist of published articles in professional journals that I've written on the subject of false accusation, an interest of mine professionally for many years, as well as other writings about the legal problems of individuals, to constitutional law, a subject I've taught and find interesting enough to keep up with.

Familiarity with the subject of Constitutional Law adds a broader, deeper dimension to one's thinking about a particular matter, as even the most modest has its roots in Conlaw.  

Conlaw is the operating system of our governments, state, federal, local, and even international law, through treaties, which are defined in the Constitution to be part of the Supreme Law of the Land.  That's why migratory birds, for example, are protected, through treaties as well as domestic law. 

All government and all law must comport with our Constitution, otherwise be deemed...unconstitutional!

So by checking out this site you'll get an impression of a trial lawyer who can address courts, juries, and opposing counsel persuasively, and who can also teach and write, an attorney who has had considerable experience as both a prosecutor and a defense attorney, and a professor of Constitutional Law (at San Francisco Law School, 2002-2007). 

When people ask "What kind of law do you practice?" or "What kind of lawyer are you?" I often reply, "I represent people with legal problems because of psychological problems."

This covers a multitude of sins, of course, and generally provides an opening for a conversation, if that's what the inquirer wishes.

I don't specify who has the psychological problem giving rise to the legal problem, of course.  It could be that my client has problems with substances such as alcohol or drugs.  Then I'd like to know the reasons that this problem exists.  Emotional problems stemming from loss of job or spouse?  Anger management problems causing violent outbursts?  One looks for such things, among others.

Or the legal problem could be caused by a false accusation made by a significant other, or former S.O., now showing themselves in this form of revenge or retaliation.  I've seen this more than once.  Many contested matters derive from this.

Or the opposing counsel may be an ideologue who has an axe to grind making it difficult or impossible to see other viewpoints, making it that much harder to deal with the matter.

My teaching experience includes a summer of teaching First Amendment law, the freedom we have to exercise our mind, to think and believe as we wish, and to express and publish what our conscience tells us is right, subject to some limitation against defamation, obscenity, fighting words, and urging, soliciting, or conspiring to commit criminal activity, with present ability and danger of committing it now. 

Subject to those few and narrow exceptions, we have broad freedom to believe, teach, write, and advocate as we please.  The people of few other nations enjoy such breadth of liberty.  Lawyers, as well as others, have a tradition of trying to keep it that way here.

I hope you enjoy and are stimulated by what you find here.

Comments

[Hawi Moore]

Thanks