The Guy Who Ruined EVERYTHING!   As I write this, I am sitting on a cobble-stone patio in Kimberley, British Columbia about 580 miles from where I live. I am in Kimberley even though I still worked on my law practice all week, serving clients. It...

Why Being Purposefully Ignorant Can be a Great Thing I have this friend named Heather. She knows so many things. She has renovated her entire house. She not only designed it, but she also did a lot of the work herself. When she got her new dishwasher...

Are you Starving Your Soul? I had the fortune of being adopted by the Hemminger family, first coming to them via the foster care system as a baby. My parents, Elma and Julius Hemminger, were kind, fun, and very big-hearted people. They were also very...

Be More Like Donald Trump! One of the first business books I ever read was supposedly written by Donald Trump. I don’t even remember the title. I feel like I should explain myself a little. This was in about 2011 or so . I knew almost nothing about...

Don't be a DICK!   In order to qualify to work for my law firm, Pathway Legal Law Corporation, the Associate lawyers must commit to taking dispute resolution training. This is training that goes way beyond anything we were taught in law school....

Managing the Toxic Client - The Tale of Rotten Ralph   We have all had that one terrible, toxic, client.. It is that one particular client you dread talking to. The one that when you speak to him (or her or they), you feel your energy drain out...

Gazing Into the Crystal Ball That is Your Future   The fact that you are reading means that you probably want to have more for your life than you do right now. Maybe you are just like me, a hopelessly driven person who has had some hard-ass...

Do Your Clients Own Your Brain and Suck Your Blood? Has this ever happened or has been happening to you: Do your clients own your brain and even worse, do they suck the blood out of you? I think about this trial I've had recently. When I got a...

Your Great Work Is Not Only Killing Your Future, It Is Making You Broke   Will you allow working evenings and weekends, compromising your health and family relationships to be the cost of your great work? In this episode, I’d like to share with...

Unbreaking The Broken Family Industry   If we did away with the toxicity of Family Law disputes, what would happen to our industry? This is what I wanted to share with you in today’s podcast. When clients go through a divorce or a separation,...