A few weeks before I turned 35, I felt like I was having a heart attack. My heart was beating out of my chest. I was short of breath. I couldn’t walk to the mailbox and back without becoming winded and feeling like I needed to collapse into a heap on the couch. I had…
It isn’t often that I open an issue of California Lawyer with anticipation and excitement. But the cover of a recent issue was emblazoned with a charter school issue with these words: “Charter School Fight Rich v. Even Richer.” So when I picked it up to read it I really was genuinely excited. Imagine my…
Have we learned anything in the last 150 years? Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was given one year after the famed battle, in the middle of the Civil War, to dedicate the battlefield as a cemetery. The speech lasted a mere 2 minutes. It was preceded by a speech from Edward Everett that lasted an agonizing 2…
Howard Anawalt was an incredible mentor. I chose to attend Santa Clara to concentrate on intellectual property law and he was the biggest proponent of IP at Santa Clara, so it only seemed natural that I would end up working for him as a research assistant while I was in law school. I felt lucky…