Recently, I’ve moved back to Virginia. I was on inactive status with the Virginia bar (because I had been gone for over ten years). I decided to go ahead and become active. This decision cost me 38 hours of CLE (continuing legal education) time to make up for the ones I had not completed in the previous ten years. Most of it was exquisitely boring, however, I learned this one little nugget.
I’ve written previously about the importance of defense attorneys. (Click here to read that article). Defense attorneys are some of the most important people in the criminal justice system. Here’s an actual example of why.