Throughout your lifetime you will meet people who cross your path for a number of reasons. Some will stay, some will pass through, some you will work with and then there are some who will use you for what you have or what they can get from you. Those are the people my mother called “users” and warned me about.…[...]

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Imagine that you are safely driving down the road. You are watching for cars around you, driving the speed limit and making sure you are not distracted.  All of a sudden, another car crashes into your driver’s side door because the driver was texting and ran a red light.  During the crash, you break your legs, hit your head on…[...]

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What do I want to be when I grow up?  A question we only think of asking our children.  Don’t get me wrong, I love my job with Bordas & Bordas, but I feel I missed something along the way in my life of 51 years and that is helping animals (mostly dogs).  I wanted to be a vet or…[...]

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At the Bordas & Bordas Christmas party, the partners gave their employees a gift that I, along with most of the others, weren’t expecting. A TRIP TO VEGAS!  Everyone was ecstatic and blown away.  Not only was this for each employee, but the employee AND a guest.  For anyone who was married, it was a no-brainer…you take your spouse, right? …[...]

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Easter is the most important and oldest festival of the Christian Church. The holiday marks the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Everyone has their favorite Easter traditions from attending Mass and eating a big dinner to hunting for Easter eggs and spending time with family. In honor of the blessed holiday, the Bordas & Bordas attorneys and…[...]

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One excursion my husband, Tom, and I have planned for the Bordas firm’s upcoming trip to Las Vegas is visiting the Hoover Dam. I have seen the Hoover Dam.  Passed it on the road to the Wilson family farm many, many times, according to my husband…. Many, many years ago—some here at the Bordas firm weren’t even born yet—I would…[...]

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With our state’s primary election just around the corner and with this being a Presidential election year, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about many of the reasons why it’s important to vote. I have to admit, I did not run out and register to vote as soon as I turned 18.  In fact, I don’t think I voted for…[...]

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What do you remember most about Easter? Coloring Easter eggs is one of my most treasured memories. Without fail, my mother would boil a dozen eggs, which she handpicked from my grandfather’s chicken coop, and we would color them.  We would have multiple Easter egg hunts and, on occasion, if it was too cold or rainy, we hid the eggs…[...]

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Bullying is a serious and widespread problem in American schools. It affects the school performance, emotional well-being, mental health, and social development of school children throughout the United States. Tonja R. Nansel et. al., Cross-national Consistency in the Relationship Between Bullying Behaviors and Psychosocial Adjustment, 158 Archive of Pediatric and Adolescent Med. 730, 733-35 (2004). Studies have shown that students…[...]

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As the development of technology progresses, so does the probability of cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is bullying that occurs over any type of electronic device. Some include computers, cell phones and tablets, as well as communication tools such as social media sites, text messages and web chats. Cyberbullying can effect someone of any age, but the majority of this type of bullying…[...]

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