Category: Personal Thoughts

Language is Everything …

Pikes Peak Summit

We all seek the summit. 

It’s the journey, though, that counts. And every journey is unique.

Those who enjoy the search are the lucky ones.


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Lawyering and teaching come from the same cloth

Rebecca Mieliwocki, was named the 2012 Teacher of the Year and honored today by President Obama at  a White House ceremony. She went to law school, among other things in her career. To me, this transition is not peculiar. Lawyers are, after all, teachers. They tell stories to persuade jurors and judges for the benefit of their clients. Law is a helping and caring profession, just as is teaching. Ms. Rebecca Mieliwocki took that same talent and focused it on young people in Burbank, CA. Congratulations to her.


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Language is Everything …

Slow Moving Vehicles

 

Duh!

Were these signs made by prisoners with nothing else to do, or do we actually pay good taxpayer money to have such signs made?

I wonder who created this thought?


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Language is Everything: Specialization

There is a new certification being promoted: Certified Divorce Financial Specialist

This takes specialization to a new level:  Learning more and more about less and less … and pretty soon we’ll know nothing about everything.


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A time to reflect and renew

Best wishes for a very happy Passover and Easter. This is the beginning of Spring and the planting of crops … and a time to reflect and renew in our own lives as well. Best wishes for a happy holiday.


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Language is Everything …

The Continental Divide

 

The Continental Divide is not just one spot. It’s a long line.

We kept crossing it, back and forth as we traveled.

As one coming from a desert community, seeing so many tall peaks is quite spectacular!


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Language is Everything …

Becky's Bail Bonds

 

Location, Location, Location!

The lawyer and bail bonds person are neighbors, and both are adjacent to the jail and the courthouse. Otherwise known as the "revolving door." One’s commute tends to be minimal here.


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Lawyers and doctors both controlled by insurance carriers

In the 1960s, insurance carriers began to request lawyers to demonstrate what they did for their insureds. The metric was time. How much time did you spend on each matter, each task. What used to be a management tool soon became a pricing tool. And for decades, we’ve been using hourly billing as the modality for determining legal costs. With technology advances, I predict that alternative billing (fixed fees, contingency, capped fees, etc.) will once again prevail.

But, wait a minute. The legal community is not the only one controlled by insurance companies. I went to a cardiologist. All I wanted was a stress test to confirm that I’m fine. No, no cardiologist (I called more than one) would give me a stress test without a previous consultation. O.K. I can’t beat the system. I made the appointment. The doctor agreed I should have a stress test and an electrocardiogram. Fine. Can I make one appointment to do both in the same visit? No. Why not? Insurance won’t pay for both when done on one visit.

Insurance companies should do what they’re supposed to do. Pay for that which is covered. Instead, they get in the way by forcing professionals to alter their procedures in order to get paid. Or is this a case of doctors bilking the system to obtain greater revenue?


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