Category Archives: From Our Members

Who Will Implement Your Estate Plan?

If you have created an estate plan, or hope to create one, the selection of Successor Trustee is critical. Your plan is only as good as the one implementing it, and this short article will help you determine if you have made the right choice for you, and your loved ones. First, let’s be clear…

A Cautionary Tale

Pamela Harriman, Clark Clifford and Paul Warnke were the crème de la crème of Washington politics, luminaries of the D.C. establishment and among the veritable best and brightest of the American political scene. Pamela had used her inheritance and status as the widow of Averell Harriman to enhance her lifestyle and advance her party’s political…

When it’s time for a tuneup

My dad was a mechanic – a pretty good one from all accounts.  He’s always liked fixing things.     As a kid, I recall hearing “a mechanic’s car is always the worst”.   It may well have been mum who yelled it whenever my brothers and I were push-starting her 1964 Ford Cortina in a…