After staying home for a month eating comfort food, we have heard the nervous jokes about putting on the “COVID 19,” those extra pounds like the “freshman 15” students are said to gain in college. With more weeks of sheltering at home to come, we need to be serious...
How is your stress level? Last week, I had to help get my 20-year-old daughter back from Europe, my 88-year-old mother was isolated in an assisted living facility and not allowed visitors, and the stock market tanked. Then they took away March Madness. This week you...
Attorney wellness has been like Mark Twain’s view of the weather, everyone was talking about it, but no one was doing anything about it. At last, that is changing. It is generally agreed that lawyers are stressed. See Herbst, Attorney Wellness in a Nutshell, NYSBA...
As Simon and Garfunkel wrote in their song “I Am a Rock”: A winter’s dayIn a deep and darkDecemberI am alone…I am a rockI am an island… If you are following through on a New Year’s wellness resolution, those lines may describe how you are feeling as you continue to...
Regular gymgoers hate the first week of January. The gym is suddenly flooded with Resolutionistas, those people who have resolved to get fit and lose weight in the New Year and who wander around the gym seemingly without a plan and take up the equipment and fill up...
Ah, the holidays. That magical time of year after Thanksgiving when deals have to close and fees have to be collected by 11:59 on December 31st. What lawyer doesn’t have memories of filing with the SEC with Dick Clark on in the background, or signing hundreds of...
