Sandra Mazer Moss

Sandra Mazer Moss

November 13, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

Reinventing Yourself After Retirement: Revisiting Ethics in Mediation

Today there is more of a focus on examining attorney behavior during discovery, in the courtroom and at mediation analyzing whether behavior, while entirely legal, can still present ethical problems.

By Sandra Mazer Moss

7 minute read

October 08, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

Reinventing Yourself After Retirement: Take Time to Communicate Your Feelings

One thing I have learned from this tragedy is that we must communicate our thoughts and feelings, to those we love and those whose lives intersect with ours, on a regular basis.

By Sandra Mazer Moss

5 minute read

August 19, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

Reinventing Yourself After Retirement: To Simplify and Clarify

How many times have you said to yourself (or someone else, if you had the guts): “Just keep it simple stupid!”

By Sandra Mazer Moss

7 minute read

July 29, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

Reinventing Yourself After Retirement: Find a Creative Solution

Once in the reinventing mode, you sometimes find yourself reinventing everything around you as well. So it is with alternative dispute resolution.

By Sandra Mazer Moss 

5 minute read

April 05, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

Reinventing Yourself After Retirement: 'Making the Most of It' by the Pool

First, I was never going to retire. Second, I was never going further south than Washington, D.C. Well, I made good on number one. I did not, nor will I ever, voluntarily retire.

By Sandra Mazer Moss

7 minute read

February 28, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

Reinventing Yourself After Retirement: A Taxing, Yet Rewarding, Day

There are benefits to transitioning from the bench into real life. One of the best is that you get your First Amendment rights back. After 30 years of being neutral and keeping my feelings to myself, I can now speak up on any issue I like.

By Sandra Mazer Moss

8 minute read

September 22, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

Reinvention Round Three: This Time as an Expert Witness

Reinventing yourself after retirement can take many forms. I morphed from a judge to an executive director of Temple's Sheller Center for Social Justice and then into an arbitrator/mediator for the Dispute Resolution Institute.

By Sandra Mazer Moss

11 minute read

April 04, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

Staying Plugged In Was Easier Than I Thought It Would Be

One of the major blessings retirement gave me was the flexibility of my new schedule. For 30-plus years, I presided in my courtroom chained to the bench. After all, how would it have been received if I had announced one day that I was going to preside for a week by conference call from Florida? Probably, not very well for me or my next judicial assignment.

By Sandra Mazer Moss

12 minute read

October 21, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Reflections From the Volga

At present, I am very jet lagged, having returned recently from a Russian riverboat cruise down the Volga River from Moscow to St. Petersburg. So as I slowly return to normal, I wanted to share some reflections with you who may or may not have reinvented yourselves into travelers.

By Sandra Mazer Moss

14 minute read

August 16, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Depend on 'Good Guys' to Aid in Gender Equality in the Workplace

Now that I have reinvented myself from the public sector into the private sector, I have become more aware of issues facing attorneys practicing there. In June, I cut out a column in The Legal Intelligencer that particularly interested me and tucked it away for future reference.

By Sandra Mazer Moss

14 minute read