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We are a few weeks into shelter at home, social distancing, remote working, and job losses. What mental health experts warned us might happen, has happened. Some people are lonely, frightened, agitated, and angry. Others are able to cope and adapt to the new normal easier. People who are normally social connectors may be struggling the most. They have lost one of t...

Taking the time to complete your health care power of attorney and living will is a great step toward ensuring that your health care wishes will be followed if you are unable to make decisions for yourself. A health care power of attorney names an agent to make health care decisions if you are unable to do so yourself. A living will which is also called an advance ...

JW Way Fundamental #5: Listen Fully. "Listening is more than simply not speaking. Give others your undivided attention. Set aside your own judgments and preconceived notions. Listen with focus. Most importantly, listen to understand."COVID-19 has brought many new challenges to the way we communicate with our coworkers, clients, families, and friends. Never has li...

Beginning April 10, 2020, thousands of health care providers across the country began receiving funds from the US Government in the form of grants made under the federal CARES Act, signed into law by President Trump on March 27, 2020. The purpose of the CARES Act is to get money into the hands of the “front line” providers of healthcare to actual or pot...

We currently are living in strange and different times. Businesses, cities, and countries are shut down. People are isolated. There is no traffic. The air feels like it is cleaner. And people are exercising outdoors more than usual. Despite businesses being closed, or their employees working remotely, the time to network is now. Networking is about connecting. Conn...

If you are lucky enough to still have a job or business, has the manner in which you work changed during the pandemic? You likely are working remotely, as are many of your co-workers, friends and family, including many who haven’t done so before. When you think about this, it’s pretty amazing how fast companies adapted to be able to have most, if not th...

Caution: Spoilers Ahead. Netflix’s documentary series “Tiger King” is currently the number one show on the streaming service and one of the most talked about shows in media. The series explores the peculiar world of private, big-cat zoos and the strange characters that run them. The show centers on an escalating feud between the “Tiger King” Joe Maldonado...

You probably saw the title and thought “what is he writing about?” It could about the great Talking Heads song of the same name, but it’s not. It’s about living in circumstances that changed on a dime forcing most to work from home, and many to lose their livelihood. It obviously isn’t the equivalent of really being a soldier at war, b...

If you’re like many people, you have not put much thought into who will make your health care decisions if you are unable or what kinds of decisions might need to be made. However, you may find yourself thinking about health care issues more and more. If you or a loved one enters a hospital, one of the first questions you will be asked is if you have a Health...

Force Majeure (literally a “superior force”) is a contract clause that excuses a party from performing its contract obligations because of unforeseen “Acts of God.” The basic idea is that, if something unforeseen should happen outside the parties’ reasonable control that severely disrupts their ability to perform the contract, the per...