it is usually a sign that I have not got enough sleep or lost my sense of gratitude, often both. The former often leads to the latter. It happens when I forget to take meaningful breaks, stay up very late often and am prevented from expressing my agency and autonomy. If it is caused by these, then the remedy is simple: sleep earlier, get a full night’s rest, take my time with work and people …
I see a lot of this on social media these days. Daily, we are treated to a surfeit of self-generated pictures, Tik-Tok Videos, Facebook Posts, Twitter Tweets, Instagram LinkedIn Posts and whatever else by lawyers bragging up or lyrically wa-waxing about a lawyer’s exciting or dramatic working life, a lawyer’s hardship, a lawyer’s work life and all that go with it. Much of these are the efforts of young lawyers in an attempt to gain …
As a practitioner of family law who oversees, manages and bears witness to the breakdown and failure of spousal and family relationships, as someone who has been through a divorce and remarried, and as someone who reflects and reads about those issues, I’d like to think I have some insight into the genesis, longevity and breakdown of spousal relationships. Starting a relationship is easy. Getting into a new relationship is an exciting, thrilling and delightful …
During the formative years of LoyarBurok (‘the LB’), I tasked myself with the responsibility of discovering interesting local and foreign amateur legal blogs. The purpose was two-fold. The first was to seek the blog writer’s permission to republish their post on the LB. The second was to invite them to write for us. On one of my blog-hunting forays, I came across a local one titled Friendly Neighbourhood Lawyer. It’s not around anymore. It was …
I have been going for regular tennis coaching for almost a year now. My tennis coach is Iranian, Coach Saeed. I call him Coach. He was formerly a national youth tennis coach. He has a few assistant tennis coaches. One that I work often with is also an Iranian. His name is Omid. When I started working with Coach almost a year back, all I had in my mind was for a few tweaks and …