Appreciative Clients: A Loving Daughter & A Caring Mother

Last week, two appreciative clients came by to thank me. One client, I have represented since 2001 and finally completed her case a few months ago. She was about to go to the Phillipines and came by to thank me before leaving the next day. She hasn't seen her parents for almost 14 years. She is now going back to see them, both of her parents are now elderly. She initially planned to go back in December, but decided that she shouldn't wait any longer as her parents are not getting any younger. She told me that she has been saving a portion of her income and each month wired it to her family in the Phillipines. She is a nice person and a loving daughter.

She took me out to lunch and we chatted for a long time, talking about her plans for the future. We have become good friends and it is clients like her that makes my practice enjoyable.

I had to go back to work and she had shopping to do; she is buying her family presents. So, she promised she will come by to see me again when she returns. For someone who have gone through a lot of adversities, she is a remarkably optimistic person.

Another client who recently arrived in NYC came by to thank me for the work done on her case. She is a relatively new client and her plans for her children almost got unravelled by the government's erroneous application of the law. It could have deprived her children a very important and valuable once-in-a-life-time opportunity. She could have given up, but she fought on for the sake of her children's future. Fortunately, a few hours of legal research followed by a series of letters and emails straightened things out. She gave me this present, from her company's inventory I believe, as a token of her gratitude. It's a nice Chinese snuff bottle, beautifully painted.

Here is the box. These things usually don't come in such boxes. She must have searched high and low to find a container for the snuff bottle. The "lock" of the box apprently has lost. So, she use a piece of rope to tie it up. I like it all the same.


Here's the bottle in the box.

Here is one side of the bottle, showing a scenic painting. The painting is done by hand inside the bottle. It's a traditional Chinese arts and craft.

Here is the other side of the bottle, showing another scene perhaps a herder with his goats. Simply marvelous.