What Are Your Personal Core Values? What are your personal core values? On the last day of 2017, former FBI director, James Comey, sent out a message loud and clear on Twitter – hoping for more ethical leadership focused on truth and lasting values in 2018. Here’s hoping 2018 brings more ethical leadership, focused on […]

Examining Corporations: Moody’s Breach of Fiduciary Duty I have spent countless hours pondering my fiduciary duty as a lawyer that I ultimately failed to uphold during 2007-2009, the time in which I made some bad decisions that led to serious consequences in my life. In an earlier blog this year, I discussed the five ethical […]

Why Professional Ethics Training Should Include Behavioral Ethics Over the last 20 months, I have been released from Federal Prison; been reunited with my children, family, and friends; meditated and soul-searched to seek out my mission after my life-changing legal experience; and now speak and consult nationally to hopefully inspire and help others.  I have […]

The Loop – Making the Right Decision It’s 5:15 in the morning. I’ve just woken up to the alarm ringing next to my pillow from the Timex watch I hung on the metal rod at the corner of my bunk bed last night. I sit up and look around just in time to see the […]

United Airlines’ Ethics Rhetoric vs. Reality United Airlines scrambled to climb out of a public relations nightmare and financial decline due to the recent actions against a paying customer, a doctor, who rightfully purchased a plane ticket and was sitting in his assigned seat when he was forcibly removed from the plane. But a closer […]

Hurricane Harvey: Can Doing the Right Thing Become the Norm? Hurricane Harvey has brought severe devastation to Houston this past week.  This storm was unusual in that the hurricane made landfall in Texas and then just stalled.  Harvey dumped more than 40 inches of rain in the Houston area, turning roads and the surrounding areas […]

South Florida Attorney Sentenced for Forging Signatures Last week, an attorney in South Florida was sentenced to 364 days in prison for forging signatures of judges more than 100 times on orders in his cases involving financial settlements.  Why did he sign the judges’ names?  Was it to make money in an illegal manner?  Was […]

Movie Ethical Analysis: Ms. Sloane This week I had the chance to watch Jessica Chastain’s movie, Ms. Sloane, about a leading lobbyist in Washington DC and it certainly was a political thriller. Throughout the movie, I found myself questioning Ms. Sloane’s actions and ethical decision making process.  The main guiding principle in the movie for […]

I call myself a recovering lawyer.  I have lost my bar license that I worked very hard for my whole life.  I lost my law firm and the honor of working with my father as a partner.  I have learned so much over the past few years and had time to reflect on how I […]