by Helen Hamlin Ready or not, spring is here! The pollen has begun to fly and we are all a bit frustrated by the yellow haze in the air. It might be a good time to stay indoors and get…

Welcome to little Amelia Katherine Tesser, born February 6, 2012, to Louis and Lilia Tesser. Congratulations to you both!  

by Helen Hamlin

One important and often overlooked aspect of obtaining optimal health that we need to explore is sleep. Why is sleep so important anyhow? Do we really know? Why does it elude us?

More than 400 years ago, Shakespeare penned the following:

“…O sleep, O gentle sleep,
Nature’s soft nurse,
How have I frightened thee.”

Yet for the next three-and-a-half centuries, this notion missed the mark entirely. Even today, many of us think of sleep as a luxury, something to do when we have a day off or during a vacation!

The good news is that science and medicine have begun to acknowledge that our health and lives begin to come undone without enough quality sleep. Our society is developing all sorts of sleep disorders and our health is being dangerously affected as a result.

Do you . . .
Wake up tired in the morning?
Need a nap in the afternoon?
Fall asleep watching TV?
Have frequent small accidents at home or large ones on the road?
Have trouble focusing on the job?
Find yourself sleepy after lunch?
Have trouble figuring the correct change from a purchase?
Feel irritable or depressed most of the time?
Feel like you are not getting anything done?
Drink alcohol to get to sleep?
Drink several cups of coffee or energy drinks to stay awake?
Have difficulty falling asleep?
Have difficulty staying asleep?

Answering yes to more than three of these questions indicates you are most likely not getting health restorative sleep.

by Daniel DeWoskin
Trial Attorney
www.atlantatrial.com

Frequently I find myself partnering up with different talented attorneys on challenging cases. In addition to the obvious benefits that come with shared resources and accountability, I enjoy seeing the differing approaches my colleagues have toward tackling discovery, motion practice, and trial preparation. Over the years, I have learned, sometimes at significant cost, that it takes much more planning and consideration than simply a good friendship to make a good co-counsel relationship work.

by W. Blair Meeks
Communication Strategist
Jackson Spalding

Everything is sales. I heard that nugget from an up-and-coming sales star at a company we work with here in Atlanta. It was during a sales training workshop and the salesman was describing an exchange with his son about school. It seems a dispute between his son and a teacher about a paper topic meant the sixth grader was cornered into writing a paper about a boring topic. The salesman’s advice? He told his son to “sell” the teacher on a topic he’d prefer to write about. He told him to try to pique the teacher’s interest and earn her trust and to reinforce that trust by surpassing expectation. Of course, the teacher’s decision about a new topic would largely depend on the relationship she already had with his son.

Family Law Section breakfasts are held on the first Thursday each month. Be sure to check the FLS page on the DeKalb Bar Association website for more information, sign up and register for the next rousing breakfast meeting. Click any…