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Law Practice,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility

May 22, 2020

Use the ‘architecture of time’ during this pandemic as an opportunity for growth and change

As lawyers, we are trained to examine facts, uncertainty is unsettling. We are goal oriented, so future ambiguity is disturbing. If we are able to meet the moment to embrace growth and change, we have an opportunity to create a new personal and professional paradigm from this bridge in time.

Marshall S. Zolla

Marshall is a partner in a specialized family law practice in Century City. Marshall is certified as a specialist in Family Law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He continues to publish and present on innovative and cutting-edge family law issues as part of his ongoing contribution to improve the practice of law and enhance our system of justice.

We find ourselves suspended, in an interval of space defined by Abraham Joshua Heschel as an "architecture of time" unfamiliar to us, suspended between embedded years of routine normality and the certainty of a profoundly changed future. As lawyers, we are trained to examine facts, uncertainty is unsettling. We are goal oriented, so future ambiguity is disturbing. If we are able to meet the moment to embrace growth and change, we have an opportunity to create a new pe...

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