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
While scrolling through my Instagram feed, I saw that Mally Skok, a friend, an amazingly creative interior designer and one of my favorite IG posters, had begun commenting on her feelings, memories and reflections as she and her husband began the process of selling, and then distilling and moving from their
An interview by Nick Morgan of PublicWords.com Heidi Webb is here to talk about life on lockdown for a mediator. As they say on the Internet, her answers surprised me. They may surprise you. Nick: All of us are learning to work in the virtual world and most of us don’t like it much. The phrase ‘Zoom
The word ‘adversary’ has a negative connotation, so it’s understandable that the adversarial legal process does as well. Therefore, when heading down that path clients often presuppose that it will be painful and unpleasant, and many times it is. The very idea conjures up a scenario in which lawyers, acting
Over the course of the past couple of months I’ve become reluctantly accustomed to remote meetings. I now find that during the course of a day it’s not unusual for me to meet with fifty or more people through Zoom professional and client meetings, expanding my geographical network while remaining
“Honestly? I have no idea.” This exchange happened years ago, early on in my career. I was taking the deposition of a man whose wife I was representing in a contested custody dispute. Both parties were pediatricians. I recall the judge noting that they were both overly invested in their
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