What a community bank should do when a customer's business is in trouble
Call first. Then sit at the kitchen table. Then do the math together.
18 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
Stories worth your time
You should never have to guess what you're paying for
How we rebuilt a law firm's invoice from scratch, what happened to disputes, and the one rule that makes it work.
10 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
How to read an annuity contract
The fee is on page 24, in a footnote, as a percentage of a number defined on page 9. Here is how to find it.
2 Sep 2026 · 9 min read
The first 48 hours after you've been served
What to do, what not to do, and why the quiet week after a lawsuit arrives decides more than the trial.
1 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
What hospitals can teach banks about reviewing mistakes
The first question is never 'who'. Here is the second question, and the third.
30 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
What a bank examiner actually looks for
Twenty years on one side of the table, nine on the other. The question never changed.
26 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Who owns your code? Probably not who you think.
Seven years as an engineer and eleven as an IP lawyer taught me that most start-ups don't own their product. Here is how to check, and how to fix it before an investor does.
18 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
What a jury actually pays attention to
Sixty trials as a public defender and a decade in civil court taught me that jurors watch three things, and none of them is your closing.
5 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
Why the board said no to the 2021 merger
The question that settled it was not about price. It was about who would be sitting at the kitchen table afterward.
22 Jul 2026 · 8 min read
Trust is the inventory
What a law firm's General Counsel actually does all day, and why the most valuable thing I ever did was tell a firm to fire a client.
21 Jul 2026 · 7 min read
The conversation you have before anyone is angry
Why a shareholder agreement is the most important document a family business will ever sign, and the four questions it must answer.
14 Jul 2026 · 8 min read
Somewhere in the file is the sentence that wins
A method for reading 40,000 pages without losing your mind, and why the boring documents are the ones that decide cases.
30 Jun 2026 · 6 min read