Crisis Of Confidence I once heard it said that, “I experience a crisis of confidence everyday” from a solo practitioner. If you aren’t challenged and confronted with new, complex, and novel issues everyday, you probably are retired or totally missing what you should be catching. Too many lawyers get into trouble because they freeze when […]

The answer is maybe! As a professor teaching estate planning students how to assess legal competence I frequently use as an example that I could train a monkey to open and close a specific door on command. I would argue that that monkey has LEGAL competence sufficient to comprehend that task and execute it knowingly. This […]

A True Story Years ago for Christmas, I got a pair of ice skates. There was a park, with a pond used as a public ice rink, about 5 miles from our house.  I asked for permission to take my new skates a go to that park. My mom admonished me not to go down […]

A True Story Before my mother and father passed away, and when all eleven siblings and I were together (not a very common occurrence), at one point, we gathered in the living room of their house. My mom then sent one of my siblings into another room to retrieve a cardboard box. This box was not unlike many […]