by Jim Dwyer | Aug 8, 2017 | Living Our Best Life, The Lawyer's Compass, Trust, Faith and The Law
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. At school, I laughed and joked. I kept my grades up and worked hard at...
by Jim Dwyer | Mar 16, 2016 | Living Our Best Life, Practicing Law and Life, The Lawyer's Compass, Trust, Faith and The Law
The Lawyer’s Compass is about living from our center. It’s from there that we live our maximally rewarding lives and we inspire others to do the same. I know when I see someone that I care about upping their game it inspires me. The next layer out on The...
by Jim Dwyer | Mar 1, 2015 | Practicing Law and Life, Trust, Faith and The Law
The last time I recall hearing about “excited utterance” was in law school. It was in Evidence class and we were going over the list of exceptions to the hearsay rule. Like many things in life, once we learn the rule, it seems like we spend most of our...
by Jim Dwyer | Oct 27, 2014 | Living Our Best Life, Trust, Faith and The Law
I’m trying to visualize what my life looks like. If each part represents a different colored block of wood, is the size of each piece equal to the amount of time I spend doing that or should it corollate to the importance it plays in my life? Does that mean that...
by Jim Dwyer | May 13, 2014 | Trust, Faith and The Law
It’s amazing all the bits and pieces of information I remember from the different classes in law school. Venue from Civil Procedure, the Content Neutral Test from Constitutional Law and The Rule Against Perpetuities in Property class. Most of what I learned in...
by Jim Dwyer | Oct 7, 2013 | Trust, Faith and The Law
6 years ago the minister of my church asked me a question that had a big effect on my law practice. He asked “What do you have faith in?” I asked him: “Do you mean about God?“ He said he was not asking about God, the bible or anything religious. He continued “We have...
