A Windfall for the Brady Bunch: How the Child Tax Credit Can Benefit Your Family
Remember The Brady Bunch? The ABC family sitcom about the foibles of a blended family with six children (“Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!”) that aired from 1969-1974 became even more popular in syndication. Today, [...]
Katherine A. Bagdis Named Mountain Dearborn Managing Partner
Attorney Katherine A. Bagdis has been named the Managing Partner of Mountain, Dearborn & Whiting LLP, effective January 1, 2022. "It is an exciting time for our firm. With our two new [...]
Mountain Dearborn Welcomes Our New Associate Joseph Cabrera
Joseph Cabrera has joined Mountain Dearborn, expanding the firm’s estate planning services. An assiduous reader since childhood, Joe places a high value on precise language. That attention to detail, combined with deep [...]
Estate Planning Among Millennials Is on the Rise—for Some Very Good Reasons
I’ve always been fascinated by how generations differ. I’m an “old school” or “early” Millennial: a traditionalist with a modern twist. We Millennials (born between 1981-1995) typically were raised by at [...]
COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave—What You Should Know
With Covid vaccines for teens and adults widely available throughout the nation, and with shots for elementary school children now approved and available as well, there’s reason to be a bit more [...]
Nina T. Dow Again Honored as Massachusetts Super Lawyer and Rising Star
For the third consecutive year, Attorney Nina T. Dow of Mountain, Dearborn & Whiting is among the Massachusetts Super Lawyers and Rising Stars, this time for 2021. Nina specializes in estate and [...]
Taking Care of Business: Why Succession Planning Matters for Small Businesses
Many owners of small businesses overlook the benefits of succession planning. Given all the day-to-day challenges of owning and running a business, finding the time to make a long-term plan can be [...]
Honoring Sam Desimone’s Groundbreaking Effort to Bring Pro Baseball to Worcester
Worcester has fallen in love with the WooSox and the team’s new home—Polar Park. It’s a family-friendly, affordable destination for an afternoon or evening baseball game that draws streams of red-and-white clad [...]
A “Busload” of School Supplies for Worcester Students
Back packs, folders, notebooks, calculators, pens, pencils, erasers, rulers, markers, crayons, lunch bags, scissors, paint, and glue—a large cache of school supplies for Worcester kids now overflows the donation box at Mountain [...]
A Tale of Two Cultures: How You Think About Estate Planning Depends on Where You Come From
As an estate planning lawyer raised in the United States by two parents who grew up in Lebanon, I am acutely aware of stark cultural differences between those countries when it comes [...]
