Greeting everyone! As you can see by my last post, its been a while since I've updated The Legal Roller Coaster. My apologies to those who have noticed. My last piece was posted February 8, and was written while I was on a plane to Portland, Oregon to try a very large case in Oregon State Court. I returned to my home, my job, and my life about two and a half weeks ago. Over the last two months or so, I have worked harder than I ever have before on a long and exhausting trial, didn't see my wife or kids for almost seven weeks, flew to Phoenix to say my final farewell to my grandmother who had been sick for years and finally just couldn't go on any longer, and, just a few weeks later, went to DC to bury one of my best friends from law school who passed away incredibly suddenly at the age of only 35, leaving behind her husband and three children. I also took some time to attend the New England Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions Annual Meeting and present a short seminar to those fine folks. That's a lot to take on in the span of two months - particularly in the middle of a multi-million dollar trial. And all of that, particularly the death of my friend, got me thinking hard about what I do, what I like to do, and why I am doing it. So, for my first post back after a couple of months, I've decided to go in a somewhat uncharacteristic non-legal direction (and don't worry - this is probably a one-shot thing since I've got a lot of other things to talk about soon), and talk a little bit about why our industry is so important and why the work that we do really does matter to people.
