Welcome to 2013! As may be expected, PAABA has been enthusiastically working on knitting together services to help our members and the community. In an ever-changing legal landscape, our practice groups continue to provide events to educate and connect participants. Our lawyer referral service always strategize different ways to reach the public and improve the…
One aspect of this office that I really enjoy is the opportunity to meet with PAABA members. The perspectives on our bar association vary as much as our members do. To some, we are an institution, a well-oiled machine that sends out notices almost too frequently. Others view us as a grass roots organization, addressing…
As inconveniences go, my car battery giving out was a relatively minor one. Not only was I in the habit of carrying around jumper cables but at the time, I was parked near the library and a police station. I had donated books for the children and hand delivered cookies to hungry cops so help…
Welcome Autumn! The new season is invigorating. Sure the days are shorter and the weather cools (or does it?) but this is a sign of progress, a move forward, if only literal. If you are fortunate to witness the changes in foliage, the wheel of time turns majestically. In Korea, my family celebrates Thanksgiving in September, as we…
May! Somehow we’ve worked our way to the fifth month of 2012. I hate to scare everyone but soon we will be half-way through the year. Six months left to reach our goals, be they professional, personal, fitness or educational. PAABA members like to challenge themselves! PAABA, of course, wants to help! Events have already…
We like to think we live among sober, measured, non-fiction thoughts. Leave the supernatural to the creative types — after all, how can one measure a judgment in rainbows or fairy dust? There is one fantasy, though, that we hold dear — and we may as well admit we believe in unicorns for they are…
Your poor heart. As you sit there, reading while eating or texting or otherwise multitasking, your heart is hard at work. It has the singular purpose of moving nutrients, oxygen and cleansing your body. It is a muscle that contracts harder than a sprinter’s leg muscle and consistently beats about 2.5 billion times by the…
On January 18, 2012, the tech community in Silicon Valley gathered in front of San Francisco’s City Hall to protest the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) bills being considered by Congress and the House of Representatives. PIPA was approved by a senate committee and is now pending before…
Happy 2012! The quaint days of the Y2K bug are firmly behind us—not only have we actually made it to the new millennium, we have soundly surpassed the first decade mark. We once might have associated 2012 with flying cars and a clear universal vision but now, across the threshold of “the Future” we cross…
This holiday season, PAABA members disperse into the four corners of the world and the by-product, for a while anyway, is frayed family nerves from your failing to put phones/lap tops/tablets aka “that thing” down for one moment. Unbeknownst to them, you reduced technology use by fifty percent the moment you disembarked. Proof: As they…