Hello, my friend, and welcome to another episode of Negotiate Anything. Thanks for spending time with us today.

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I'm your host, Kwame Christian. I'm a business lawyer, mediator,

professor, and the director of the American Negotiation Institute. Before we get started,

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our website to learn more about our negotiation workshops. We've traveled the country working with professionals just like you, and we'd love to have the opportunity to work with you too. Check out the link in the description to learn more. Greg, thanks for joining us today. Oh, it's a pleasure, man. Thanks so much for inviting me. Yeah, it's our pleasure

to have you. So how would you get a started by telling us a little bit about yourself and what you do?

Thor, so I am the principal and managing attorney of my own firm, the law office of Gregory L. Williams.

We help people navigate the stress of losing a loved one. That help usually takes the form of

navigating people through the estate administration process that they just lost a loved one. That help usually takes the form of navigating people through the state administration process,

that they just lost a loved one, you know, helping them, you know, figure out how to wind down

their assets, you know, distribute assets, transfer, ownership, the property, that kind of thing.

It also includes helping people plan for the possibility of an unexpected death and

wanting to make sure that their family and the other loved ones that you're leaving behind

are going to be taken care of. Absolutely. Critical work. Very, very important. And I'm assuming

based on what we've talked about, there are going to be a few difficult conversations that come up in your world, too.

Yes, indeed, indeed.

And when you mix, usually when people need a lawyer, it's not celebratory, right?

There's usually something that has already gone wrong or the anticipation that something will go wrong.

And so you couple just the ordinary

anxiety of having to retain legal counsel with grief and family dynamics and complications about

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