Bernie Lambek

The Way I See It: Confessions of An Aging Lawyer

April 17, 2025

Recently, I represented a secured creditor in a court case. The debtor, a farmer, needed to sell the cattle and farm equipment, my client’s loan collateral. The bankruptcy judge must give prior…

Book Review: ‘Snapshots of a Life,’ by Ken Libertoff

December 5, 2023

by Bernie Lambek

Ken Libertoff is at the tail end of his 70s, and he is reflecting back on his life. The 25-plus short essays in this…

The Way I See It: Choosing to Believe

February 7, 2023

by Bernie Lambek

The letters page of our local daily newspaper often includes lively discussions on religion. One recent contributor offered this succinct account of his view:…

The Way I See It: Reflections on Travels in Ireland

November 1, 2022

by Bernie Lambek

During the first two weeks of August, Linda and I traveled to western Ireland. We toured with a group put together by Sarah Squier,…

Book Review: ‘A Judge’s Odyssey’

September 6, 2022

by Bernie Lambek

Dean Pineles served as a Vermont Superior Court judge for more than 20 years. Then he left the Vermont bench and tried something new:…

The Way I See It: Imitators

June 7, 2022

by Bernie Lambek

I came to Dartmouth College in the late summer of 1973, having just turned 17, feeling like a newborn. After a hesitant start, I…

The Way I See It: The Sins of Dr. Coates

January 12, 2022

by Bernie Lambek

For most of her working life, my wife was an obstetric nurse. She worked primarily at Central Vermont Hospital, when John Boyd Coates III,…

The Way I See It: Death and Regret

October 6, 2021

by Bernie Lambek

The death was my father’s. On June 22, 2014, in a room at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, my father, Jim Lambek, lay…

The Way I See It: Mischief at the Jewish General

July 20, 2021

by Bernie Lambek

I penned this commentary on the 39th anniversary of the day Linda and I were married. It was sunny and warm that day in…

The Way I See It: The Prison Camp, Part 2

April 28, 2021

by Bernie Lambek

As I wrote in my last essay in The Bridge, my father was held in a prison camp in the Canadian province of New…

The Way I See It: The Prison Camp, Part 1

April 7, 2021

by Bernie Lambek

My father, Joachim Lambek, and his sister Sonja arrived in England in 1939, having been delivered by the Kindertransport from their hometown of Leipzig.…