Viora Reaction!

Raihana Mahan on the latest in beauty!

Viora Reaction is a Radiofrequency (RF) energy based treatment. When applied to tissues, the skin’s underlying network of collagen and elastin fibers is gently heated. This action causes the fibers to shrink, restoring the skin’s elasticity and leaving it tighter and smoother looking.  It also stimulates natural lipolysis to shrink fat cell...


The "F" Word

University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island 1978 - It had started to snow and that winter we had already experienced two of the worst storms in New England history. I trundled myself into a white Volkswagen beetle with three women whom I did not know. I had signed up to travel in a carpool. We debated whether we should drive to Connecticut. The beetle was old, dented, had a throaty muffler and a tail pipe...


Vegan beauty: future, present, or passing fad?

You might say vegan/cruelty-free beauty is poised to have its moment. New Zealand and India have banned cosmetic testing on animals altogether, and on June 22, 2016, President Obama signed the Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act, which is expected to significantly reduce animal testing in the United States. The act drew wide support from several organizations, including the Humane Society of the United States and the Physicians Committee for...


Pacific ADR Panel of Neutrals Are Super Lawyers!

ADR panel members were elected to the list of 2016 Super Lawyers.

Gregg Bertram | Alternative Dispute Resolution

Gregg Bertram has resolved thousands of cases in 22 years as one of the Pacific Northwest’s most recognized mediators and arbitrators.

Kathy A. Cochran | Medical Malpractice

Kathy Cochran has been an active trial lawyer since 1975,...


Up and Down the Dial

DJ and entertainment journalist Eric Holland makes his own musical path

Inspired by his parents’ record collection, and local DJs in and around his native Boston, Eric Holland had a feeling early on that he was going to do something in the music world. As his hometown’s eponymous band so famously sang, it soon became more than a feeling.

“Music turns me on,” Holland explains. “It always has....


Wali Collins on A Fish Life

Ever look at a fish in an aquarium? They just swim around with not much direction. Jus content being where they are and accepting their surroundings. This is how their world was, is and always will be.

If you have not tried to go for any of your passions, dreams or desires, and believe that this is the best your life is going to be, you are one of those fish in that aquarium. Just moving around the earth aimlessly until you die....


Jeffrey Gurian: Make 'Em Laugh

Before we even start, if you don’t know who Milton Berle or Henny Youngman were, look them up on Wikipedia right now. (Or, better yet, watch this exchange between them on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTM252Zffq0 .)

Now, Jeffrey Gurian has been a fixture on the New York (and national) comedy scene long enough to know every name you can drop, from those guys on...


Pivoting to the Forgotten Men of Fashion

Forgotten Men of Fashion? Really? Aren’t there thousands of menswear companies? How could they possibly have forgotten anyone? To answer this question, let me start way back with a few business stories about what I might call “slap in the face” experiences, or “transitional moments” or better yet, the stylish term used by today’s entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, “pivots.” And how these pivot moments eventually led to forming our...