In this blog entry, I comment on the legislative process behind enactment of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, which Congress passed and President Biden signed into law on December 29, 2022. That act included a significant piece of legislation on estate...
Have you ever considered the following? There's a "last time" you have done every single thing that you’ve ever done in your life. Some of these activities were only done once or twice. Some were significant things, but most probably weren’t. However, for many of...
I recently was a guest on long-time psychologist Dr. Doreen Downing's multiple award-winning and top 5% of podcasts by the number of downloads podcast, "Find Your Voice, Change Your Life." The subject was my personal story around my fall-from-grace, eventual...
In 1995, Professor Phil Harmelink, CPA, the then Chairman of the academic Department of Accounting at the University of New Orleans (UNO) asked me to replace the legendary Freddy Herzog (who worked for the IRS for over 60 years) teaching Estate and Gift Taxation in...
I saw a meme that said: The days that break you are the days that make you. Been there. Done that. Bought the f@$king t-shirt. Immutable truth. Buckle up, buttercup. Jimmy Duggan was right: there's no crying in baseball. I'm a Stoic in my personal philosophy in the...
In this final blog on my Code of Whole-Person Professionalism, I cover the final six pledges and associated “annotations,” i.e., pertinent or supportive quotes, as well as some parting thoughts. I hope that you enjoyed it. To order my affairs and conduct my work in a...
In this blog, I continue the consideration of my “annotated” Code of Whole-Person Professionalism with six more pledges from the Code and their associated “annotations,” i.e., pertinent quotes that support each pledge: To consider my overall duty to the legal system...
In this blog, I continue with three more pledges in my Code of Whole-Person Professionalism and the associated “annotations,” i.e., supporting or illustrative quotes. To consider “the big picture” in my advices to clients, taking into account common sense,...
In this second blog on my Code of Whole-Person Professionalism, I begin to consider each pledge in the Code, and the associated annotations, i.e., supporting or illustrative quotes. In this blog, I’ll examine the preamble to the Code and the first pledge. Fully...
My oldest son, Paul III, recently graduated from Loyola (New Orleans) Law School. For a whole host of reasons, which are my fault, we don’t have much of a relationship at present, although I remain hopeful to establishing a good relationship with Paul III, who, to his...