As we all know there is something incredibly special about the Christmas Season and I wanted to tell you about how practicing law is different during the month of December.

For starters everyone tries to cram last minute end of the year cases into the first 2 ½ weeks of the month of December. For example, I had scheduled five hearings for next week. I have several depositions almost every day between now and the 18th of December when things start to slow down. It reminds me of the saying “hurry up and wait” LOL!

My paralegals and lawyers at the Mike Kelly Law Group are extremely busy these first 2 ½ weeks and come to a dead standstill the week before and after Christmas. I always wondered if it’s that way in other businesses. Given the nature of human beings and their tendency at times to procrastinate. Not everyone is that way (although I am pretty guilty of it) but I suspect other businesses have a little bit of the same thing.

I know I overuse the expression, “think of the reason for the season,” but that is truly what I am striving to do in my more mature years. My lecturer Mitch Smith at St Martins in the Fields Episcopal Church gave a fantastic sermon on that very subject and encouraged his parishioners to take a deep breath, to pray often, and to seek peace not just globally but within our own souls. More on Christmas is coming!

We’re here for the people of South Carolina!