by Heidi Webb | Feb 2, 2021 | 2021
Last week marked twenty-one years since my father was alive and yet he lives with me every day. Having practiced law with him for ten years, I had the great privilege of knowing him not only as my father but also as my mentor, my colleague, my partner and my...
by Heidi Webb | Jan 22, 2021 | 2021
I wrote this yesterday, the day after the inauguration, and want to share it with you as my immediate unvarnished first-thoughts, as a time-capsule of this moment of historical transition. Pretty immediately after the swearing in of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. as the...
by Heidi Webb | Jan 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
“I appeared in Court on behalf of a client.” That sentence, spoken often by lawyers, somehow now seems a bit off the mark. What exactly is the appearance being made? If it’s “telephonic” or “on screen” as opposed to a physical presence, is “appearance” still the...
by Heidi Webb | Jan 7, 2021 | 2021
It was 1986 when I began practicing law in the state of Massachusetts, and gay marriage was still seventeen years away from the landmark Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case in which the Court held that the Massachusetts Constitution requires the state to...
by Heidi Webb | Dec 17, 2020 | 2020
On this day of blizzarding snow as I’m steeped in reflections of 2020 and eagerly anticipate changes in 2021, I imagine our fresh white blanketed earth symbolically enveloping us in hope. Hope manifests in many forms and often is most visceral on the heels of...
