Law Practice
Nov. 6, 2023
Closure is a myth
There is a fundamental difference between legal resolution and emotional healing. While a court judgment or settlement may resolve a legal matter, it does not address the emotional wounds accompanying such events.
To attorneys counseling their clients and to despondent clients seeking meaning in their hardship, be advised closure does not exist. “Closure” is an invention of Hollywood writers. It has no place in the halls of justice.
After deliberating two days, on Sept. 27, 2023, a Los Angeles jury convicted Gareth Pursehouse of first-degree murder for throwing well-known marriage and sex therapist Amie Harwick from the third-floor balcony of her H...
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