Posts published by “mobrien@joneswaldo.com”

By Jathan Janove– Following a career as an attorney litigating school desegregation cases, Claire Hartfield shifted her professional focus to creating new education options for youth in under-resourced urban communities.…

By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Despite popular belief, St. Augustine probably did not say that the person who sings prays twice (see: Because sometimes the internet is wrong: Augustine: He who…

By Jathan Janove (Guest Contributor)– Douglas Baird is the Harry A. Bigelow Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, and former dean of its law school. He’s a self-proclaimed…

By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I spent many happy hours as a boy visiting the now-closed Trappist monastery in Huntsville, Utah. It is impossible to catalogue or pigeonhole the wide swath…

By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The 2020 Memorial Day holiday—75 years after World War II ended—always was going to be rather memorable. It became simply unforgettable, however, when I filled in…

By Jathan Janove (Guest Contributor)– Ralph Mabey has had a long, distinguished career as a federal bankruptcy judge, law professor, and national bankruptcy attorney, including serving as a court-appointed mediator…

By Gary Topping– We love our backyard, which is carved out of a wooded mountainside just outside the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon.  There is a low, split-level deck which…

By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Standing in my makeshift COVID-19 basement home office one recent overcast day, a rather dismal conversation stormed in my head. Death tolls. Infections. Risks. Layoffs. 60…

By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I have many old friends in—and fond memories of—my boyhood hometown of Ogden, Utah. Only one, however, beckons me back there in the dark dead of…

By Jathan Janove (Guest Contributor)– My friend Dave Dahl spent over 15 years of his life in prison. He has experienced life’s lowest of the lows and worst of the…