This column, which has been co-authored for the past 28-plus years, now has a lone author. Conspicuous by its absence is the byline and smiling face of my long-time co-author, and even longer-time father, mentor, law partner, and friend, Norman H. Dachs, who passed away December 2014 following a brilliant 60-plus-year career in the law, which included 42 years as a New York Law Journal columnist. See Obituary, New York Law Journal, Dec. 11, 2014, at p. 2. It was a distinct privilege, and, indeed, a blessing, to have been able to work side by side with my father, and to learn from his sheer brilliance, ingenuity and skill how to practice law, and how to think, read and write like a lawyer, while at all times being and remaining a gentleman.
While at first, during my mourning period, I wondered how or whether I should continue to write this column without my dad, I have now come to the conclusion that to do so would be a meaningful way to maintain and preserve his wonderful legacy. I, therefore, lovingly dedicate this inaugural solo article to his memory.
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