by Heidi Webb | Oct 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
“The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.” -Code of Hammurabi, 1772 B.C. Last weekend, I visited the Holocaust Museum in D.C. for the first time. I was in town for the International Association of...
by Heidi Webb | Aug 4, 2015 | Law and Society
One day almost a hundred years ago, when my Mom was in school as a little girl, about six years old as I recall the story, she couldn’t resist the temptation of sliding down the banister from the 2nd floor to the 1st. Just as she was about to...
by Heidi Webb | Jul 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
The rainbows we’ve recently been seeing in celebration of the SCOTUS decision making marriages we formally called “same-sex”, now just marriages, got me to thinking about the enormity of change family law has undergone during the past fifty or so years. It seems to me...
by Heidi Webb | Jun 9, 2015 | The Consilium Process
May is replete with many Milestones. Cotillions and Commencements collide. Marriages and for many, divorces. For some, it’s Just the Beginning. For others, it’s a New Beginning. Amongst the myriad graduation hats and tassels at my daughter’s college Commencement were...
by Heidi Webb | Jun 3, 2015 | The Consilium Process
On the shore of Lake Natoma in Sacramento, California hundreds of hopeful athletes gathered to compete for the NCAA Championship crew races. They were all in peak physical form and had trained for countless hours to be in condition for this, and every other event this...