Last fall, my husband suggested that we take a winter break family trip to Costa Rica; I responded by saying that I’d do anything and go anywhere, but didn’t want to be involved in the planning. With that carte blanche, he planned away. As it turned out, some of the
Last week as I sat with my family over dinner on our final night together before leaving Costa Rica, we recapped our week in the form of “roses” (the best part of our week), “thorns” (the worst part of our week) and “buds” (what we’re looking forward to / what
As we approach the fresh start of a New Year, and at this precarious and fragile time in our world, we give thanks to our clients, our colleagues and our newly trained Consilium practitioners, and honor them by making donations to: Mothers Out Front (local) and Evergreen Collaborative (more global). We’ve got the whole
In a recent conversation with an architect friend of mine, she said that in addition to bringing the outdoors into buildings and enhancing views, the very qualities of light and air need to be beautiful and beneficial to make buildings all that they can be. Her comment made me think
In the Halloween spirit, this blogpost is going to focus on Stephen Vincent Benét’s classic 1936 tale “The Devil and Daniel Webster”- a little story that tells of how an American legal legend beat the Devil himself in a trial for a man’s soul. For context, Webster died in 1852,
This blog and blog series is being written by Adam Singer, who handles social media and forward-facing content for the Consilium Institute. He has read the She-Hulk comics, and will be analyzing the TV series in terms of how it portrays legal issues and court procedure; we will also cover
January is a complicated month for me, but it wasn’t always so. As a child it was a month of celebrating, since one of my brothers and I both have January birthdays.
Last week I met (via video conference of course) with a financial planner who began the meeting apologizing in advance for the fact that her first grader might be making an occasional appearance as he was at home in remote school. Remembering having also met with her the day after
It’s Terminology Tuesday, so today we are tackling the word Guardianship, which is a legal term used to protect minors and individuals with diminished capacity. Understanding the derivation of the word can help explain its legal implementation, both when used alone and when used in the phrase guardian ad litem, which we’ll talk about
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