January 2021 The MLO Minute — Airing Friday, January 22nd, 2021 at Noon! As an opportunity for our clients, colleagues, families, and friends to learn more about our MLO team, our attorneys and staff are participating in a video series throughout the upcoming months to highlight our individual team members. These interviews include conversations and…
January 2021 The MLO Minute: By, Dennis McAndrews, Esq. — Sesame Street is known for beginning their shows with a comment that the show is being “sponsored“ by a letter or a number such as “Today’s show is brought to you by the letter Q.“ In that spirit, today’s MLO Minute is brought to you…
January 2021 The MLO Minute: By, Heather Hulse, J.D., M.S., M.A. and Dennis McAndrews, Esq. — It would be an extreme understatement to say that the current pandemic has required extraordinary levels of flexibility, creativity, patience, and grit on the part of families, children, and educators. This is especially true…
January 2021 The MLO Minute: By, Jennifer Grobe, Esq. — A formative experience of my own education was watching the events of September 11th unfold in my 5th grade classroom. The whole world stopped. I didn’t know what was true and what was a rumor. I wondered if I might be taken to a concentration…
January 2021 The MLO Minute: By Jennifer Grobe, Esq. Since the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic, there has been a considerable increase in the number of youths experiencing a mental health or psychiatric emergency. Disproportionately, children and adolescents with no prior psychiatric history have required emergency psychiatric evaluation. Children and adolescents may be at…
2020 The MLO Minute When the year 2020 began, no one could have predicted the extraordinary challenges this year would bring to our communities, our nation, and the world. As the year ends, there are many hopeful signs for the future, even as we mourn those who have been lost, or left behind, or have…
December 2020 The MLO Minute: By Dennis McAndrews, Esq. and Jennifer Simons, Esq. It is human nature to defer significant decisions, especially when unusual circumstances come into play in our lives. Studies have shown that the current pandemic causes many individuals to defer or even avoid important decisions in their lives, resulting in undue hesitation…
December 2020: Jennifer Simons, Esq., attorney in our Estates and Trusts Department, discusses the importance of establishing a Pet Trust! Pets are increasingly becoming a very important part of our lives. For many people, especially the elderly, a pet is more than just an animal, it is a part of the family, sometimes the sole…
November 2020 The MLO Minute: By, Jennifer Grobe, Esq. When it comes to learning, does it matter if your child is taking in content with their eyes or ears? People have been using oral communication to learn far longer than they have used the written word. And increasingly, studies are showing that “ear-reading” is…
November 2020 The MLO Minute The development of a new program for individuals with chronic, but non-acute, mental illness presents many challenges. These hurdles include a variety of local and state regulatory issues, and where a residential program is involved, obtaining zoning approval is both difficult and necessary. Several years ago, the Widger family approached Dennis…