Celebrating the Little Things

We need to take time to celebrate; we need to celebrate the little things and the big things. It’s not very often that I have celebrated things at work with more than a toast. As a lawyer, I’ve worked on hundred of deals and seen many contracts signed, licenses negotiated, and so on; but these…

Tribute to a Marine

My grandfather, Glasco Rector, was an amazing man. He kept his head down and worked hard. He was a man of few words. He was a Marine and served in Guadalcanal in WWII, where he survived being shot. He returned from the war to my grandmother Edith and made a family of 4 children, started…

Honoring Howard Anawalt

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…

Honoring George J. Alexander

For veteran’s day, I wanted to highlight and honor one of my favorite law professors, George J. Alexander, who passed away recently, on July 29, 2013. He was a member of the US Navy between college and law school. On July 31, 2013, I received news that one of my favorite law school professors had…