I cannot believe this blog is still here.  Let's see if I can necromance it.

Sofias Flower started as an experiment, and then sort of devolved into an emotional dumping ground.  But, I can't say I am really ashamed of the writing here, and I don't *think* anyone can blackmail me with the contents.  Hah.  You never really know about that sort of thing.   

A new trend by insurance defense attorneys involves cyberstalking the crap out of the opponent, printing out anything they find that is particularly interesting and using it as surprise impeachment evidence at trial.  Because they NEVER "find" it until the night before trial, but in reality, creeping you online was the first thing they did in evaluating your case.

Just saying...I speak as a fly on the wall in the courthouse, not as an aggrieved litigant.  If you have any ongoing legal matter that might need to be resolved in a hearing, just check your shit.  Or adopt a psuedonym.

Example: I saw an attorney introduce into evidence pictures of a man at a sports bar, smiling, with a date, to try and impeach his very real claim for suicidal PTSD suffered during a well documented terrorist attack in Afghanistan and subsequent endurance of rocket and mortar fire.  For reals. As if a PTSD sufferer never smiles for a camera and never has a good day.

I don't think this particular judge is going to take that very seriously.  But the tactic is definitely more common these days.  This is not your father's courtroom.