by Ron Barak | Feb 2, 2016
Portland, the City of Bridges, and beneath almost all of them, miserable-looking camps constructed of tents, plastic tarps, and shopping carts. Rag-tag homeless people also sleeping on park benches and in doorways. An easy solution said many activists: Throw enough...
by Ron Barak | Jan 28, 2016
Can you tell me what I had in mind when I picked this picture and title. You need some help? A clue? Okay, I’m generous to a fault, I’ll give you two. One: We’ve got those ever present, ever deplorable lobbyists. Always taking us for a ride. You...
by Ron Barak | Jan 26, 2016
Who will carry the day, those presidential candidates who smoothly rely on—and parrot—their speechwriters and pollsters or those who are more natural and spontaneous, down to earth, funny, able to laugh at themselves, and political convention, able to share their...
by Ron Barak | Jan 21, 2016
As a lawyer, I’ve always found it helpful to the lawyer-client relationship to get to know my client and to allow my client to get to know me as well. Is it required? No. Of Course not. Is there a formula of how to go about this, or how far to go in cultivating a...
by Ron Barak | Jan 19, 2016
A few months ago, a good friend, who also happens to be a client, came to see me about a problem. Turns out he and his wife have an interesting way of handling their family finances. She spends; he pays. True story. With a slight degree of embellishment. For example,...
