Brooke M Deratany Goldfarb's Legal Guides (6)

Why Be A Lawyer?

Jun 07, 2012

When I was eleven years old I decided to be a lawyer.One reason I ultimately went with lawyer was because it was the first enunciation of a career path that my parents could really get behind. As an e...

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Saving Yourself

Aug 08, 2011

"Once upon a time there was a very friendly princess who was captured by a big, grumpy,invisiblewizard.And he locked her in the tippy top of his tower...Now this princess got very, very smart after ye...

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Love is Never a Mistake

Aug 08, 2011

"When you came together at the time it was meant to be. It was not a mistake. Your children are not a mistake. The life you built together was not a mistake. If it is time to move on, then let's move ...

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Book Review: The Upward Spiral--Getting Lawyers from Daily Misery to Lifetime Wellbeing

Jan 09, 2011

My brother quit the law this week. Just hung it up. The sad thing is that he was one of the greatest trial lawyers I ever met. His clients loved him. They knew he would fight for them. The juries loved...

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This Is My Village--Why One Lawyer Refuses to Litigate Divorces

Jan 19, 2010

I choose to internalize the saying, "It takes a village to raise a child" in my divorce practice. Not that I’m literally going to baby sit my clients’ children or help pay for their college education...

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The Divorce Coach's Corner: The Difference Between a Good Argument and a Bad Argument

Feb 21, 2009

What makes a "Good" Argument? What makes a “good” argument as opposed to a “bad” argument? I found an answer one Sunday when I came in early to my daughter’s 2nd grade Hebrew school class. Written o...

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