Entries by Pete Mackey

Mobile Bar Association President Pete Mackey’s April Comments

Remember in law school when you were trying to figure out where your law career was heading? You would be the lawyer with the oak paneled conference room and the well-heeled clients to match. Or you were the flamboyant trial lawyer seeking big verdicts from those same clients, the divorce lawyer striking fear in the […]

Protect Your Biggest Investment – Part 1

Unless you are in the top 1%, chances are extremely good that your home is the biggest investment you will ever make. That being said, most people take very few precautions, if any, when buying a new home. There are a lot of good builders out there. Most builders – good and bad – are […]

Mobile Bar Association President Pete Mackey’s March Comments

Less than two hours after Justice Scalia’s death was announced, the partisan shouts about choosing his successor hit a fever pitch. Each side stood fully convinced that their view was right and their opponent’s was wrong. One had to dig through the Google search results to get to what we normally see when a public […]

Mobile Bar Association President Pete Mackey’s February Comments

There is a composite photograph hanging in the MBA headquarters from 1950. By my quick count, there were about 170 lawyers in Mobile at that time. All were white and only two were women. Times have changed. Today, our membership has increased almost nine fold and has diversified considerably. That composite brought two things to […]