by Heidi Webb | Feb 22, 2021 | 2021
While having a fascinating and meandering conversation during a book group in which we were discussing How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi, someone commented that Their Eyes Were Watching God was the best book she’d ever read. I was sort of dumbstruck. Not only...
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...
