L.B.I., NJ

My absence in the past few days was due to a short trip I took with my family. We went to the New Jersey shore to stay at a beach house of one of my wife’s colleagues. We embarked to Long Beach Island, New Jersey with no plans other than to relax and to enjoy [...]

Groups of Friends

Having lived in several different places at different phases in my life, I have made a good number of friends from all walks of life. Of course, there are the good friends I had in my youth and through high school, guys that I will never forget and will always cherish our memories with. Then there is [...]

Millicom International Cellular S.A. (MICC)

At the end of July I bought a thinly-traded NASDAQ stock of a telecommunications company based in Luxembourg named Millicom (MICC) that focuses on cellular phone growth in emerging markets and developing countries. The stock at the end of July was hovering around $80.00 and I happened to pull the trigger and buy some on [...]

An Eventful Time

In September 2006, my wife and I experienced ten days that were as eventful as some people’s whole year. Starting around the middle of the month, we first discovered that we were pregnant and that we would be having our first child sometime in the spring of 2007. That by itself was a big event [...]

The Shackles Are Off

I have taken the shackles off (almost completely). For most people these days, going to law school means borrowing money. Since law is often not the lucrative, exciting profession many people thought it would be before deciding to attend law school, student loan debt can be crippling in many instances (see my previous post here). [...]

My Commute Works For Me

Some people find it hard to believe that it takes me longer than one hour each way to get to and from my office. All in all, I spend about two hours and twenty minutes of my day traveling. The reality is that I don’t know what I would do without that time each day. [...]

Life’s Lessons

There are many reasons to get married. While some may think that marriage closes some doors to one’s personal life, it is clear that marriage opens doors as well. In marrying someone you love, for example, you make a promise to be a witness to someone’s life – to be there for every good, bad [...]

Hanna Days

Our little Hanna is ever changing. Not only is she laughing more, she’s eating food these days too. Two small bottom teeth have poked their way through her gums and are starting their ascent. She is rolling over both ways now as well, but only from back to front. She has yet to master rolling from [...]

Attention Employers

Loyalty is not what it used to be. Of course, one should be loyal to his or her spouse, family and friends, but the days of continual loyalty to his or her workplace for an entire career belongs to a bygone era. When older generations refer to my generation and younger, a constant complaint seems [...]

The Current Legal Job Market

Last week a Wall Street Journal front-page article created quite a stir. The story addressed the current state of the legal job market and the disparity in salary and opportunities between those who attend top-ranked law schools and those that attend lower-ranked law schools. Having not attended a top-ranked law school (usually meaning top 14), I [...]