“We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small…gifts.” These words were written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor, theologian and reformer. Beautiful words. Inspiring words. But they are all the more beautiful and inspiring when you consider the context in which they were written. When the Nazis rose to […]

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We are bombarded every day with television advertisements from insurance companies promising to respond and protect their policyholders when disaster strikes. These promises are made with the hopes ofenticing more people to purchase policies from the insurer and increasing the premiums collected by the company. Insurance companies make money in two primary ways: 1) collecting premiums and […]

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A collection of letters rested, well preserved, in a green suitcase. On top of the pile was an open note, handwritten by a Navy man aboard the lead ship to Normandy on D-Day, my grandfather Dean W. “Hap” Polen, credited to the author Henry van Dyke: “To be glad of life because it gives you […]

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Today is my wife Stacy’s birthday. I have a hundred ways that I could wish her happy birthday. I could just say it to her — after all, we live in the same house. I could text her like I do about so many other things in our daily lives. Heck, I could even send […]

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In honor of Veterans Day 2013, Bordas & Bordas is proud to re-post the following blog entry from partner Geoff Brown, USMA 1994. Our thanks go to Geoff and all of our nation’s veterans on this national day of remembrance. Today is Veterans Day, which always causes me to remember my own service with the […]

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I received a note on my front door this past weekend from Riesbeck’s Food Markets about their sponsorship of the Boy Scouts of America’s “Scouting for Food” project which will take place this Saturday, November 9, 2013. Maybe you received one too? Hopefully you did, and hopefully you will participate. It’s really easy. Just place […]

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Chris and Stephanie Hallowich owned a 10 acre farm in Washington County, Pennsylvania where they were raising their two young children in a quiet, idyllic environment. However, all of that changed when Range Resources began massive gas drilling operations next to their farm, including four gas wells, gas compressor stations, and a water impoundment covering […]

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The Charleston Gazette recently published an article about Jim Strope, a former client and friend who trusted us with his case a number of years ago. Jim Strope’s wife was killed as a result of the negligence of the Honda Motor Company to appropriately design, manufacture and put into production a seat that was safe […]

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Just a week before we celebrate Veterans’ Day, hundreds of thousands of military families have taken another body blow from our country’s failing leadership in Washington D.C. Over 900,000 American veterans rely on food stamps to feed their families. Nonetheless, their benefits will be cut because our leaders cannot bring themselves to focus our collective […]

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Many of our readers may have an interest in what really happens in lawsuits before juries and some of the things juries are not told by the courts and lawyers because they are prohibited at trial from doing so. Along these lines is an editorial printed in the Charleston Gazette written by Robert Angelone, an […]

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