The Lawyer’s Compass

In my senior year in high school, I was internally falling apart, after picking my mom up at the Oregon State Mental Hospital. There was one person who helped me put myself back together: Steve [...]

Don’t forget your compass. It makes sense that you think about using it when you’re lost, in an area you don’t know well or when you’re at a critical junction. You’re actually in greatest need of [...]

Law school was the most intense two years of my life. (I was in an accelerated two-year program.) The anxiety it caused was overwhelming on a near-daily basis. The idea of going it alone day [...]

Four months ago I was at a fundraising event and I’d just met a gentleman when he asked me a question that I generally steer clear of discussing: “What do you do for a living?” I answered (with [...]

When was the last time you had a conversation about a difficult topic? I recently had one with a client that left me with an important life reminder. I was meeting with Walter (not his real name) [...]

We all have our share of hard times. My senior year in high school stands out as one of my darkest. None my friends knew the depth of what was going on inside of me, save one person, Steve Earl. [...]

While I can’t give my clients everything they want. I can give them what all of us are truly looking for— to be treated fairly. That’s one of my top jobs as an attorney. If I don’t, I’ve failed [...]

It all started a week before Thanksgiving of 2015. Jan’s mom, who’d been battling Parkinson’s for over 30 years was hospitalized. She was there for a week. Before being discharged she said [...]

When someone is talking angrily to me, I don’t really hear what’s being said as I’m focused on how they’re saying it. Any of us can get caught up in “an emotion spin cycle.” What could’ve been a [...]

The term “hermetically sealed”  finds its origins in the Greek God Hermes.  He was known for sealing boxes that were impossible to open and hiding them so they could not be seen. While [...]