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Together We Are Better - AFI-LLC Newsletter December 2021

Each month our agency publishes an interactive and informative newsletter for
clients and colleagues. Our newsletters cover news from associations and our
profession – from training and conferences, to legislative. We also cover our
services in the areas of Expert Legal Investigations and Medicolegal
Consultations of Personal Injury, Negligence and Death in Civil, Criminal and
Probate litigation.

The current issue is posted at www.DeathCaseReview.com/afi-llc-newsletters

Reflecting on 2021 (or was it still 2020?) and Best for 2022!
We hope you, your families, and your businesses are healthy, and ready for 2022 with
renewed dedication! Always essential to our families, clients, colleagues, our judicial
system and more. Every individual, family, and business is essential. Whether personal
or professional, families or businesses, some things changed and too much didn’t.

Unfortunately for our family, Thanksgiving and year-end have been with a deep and
difficult loss we still struggle with. Every day we are all thankful for our families, which
are always first. From the continuing events of 2020 and into 2021, we learned
renewed life balance. Parents aged, and children and grandchildren grew. The balance
became family then business, not business then family.

This is a time of thanks, remembering, and planning. With our loss, we are greatly reminded of this thanks. Let us be
thankful for each day, remember we are all essential, and plan to be together. To never be distanced and isolated again.
To know each of us are individuals, and like our families and agencies – we are unique to one another, and bonded –
from friendship and being part of the best profession we all know well, to being free with liberties unlike any other
country. These are ours, each of us. Our bonds are our strength.

Distancing, at a personal and ‘virtual’ level, became isolation to many – too many; a virtual barrier. Families, agencies,
and associations, found a way to bring together support, with camaraderie and learning through a transition back to
being together this year. Too many have not. Hospitals have denied families – and most important patients, our loved
ones – the critical visitation and comfort of each other. We were able to force a policy change to a major hospital system
in Colorado, and will begin working with state legislators to enact a law.

For 2022 we look forward to seeing our profession grow together, to become recognized for the importance of the roles
every investigator and their work-product plays. To end the misconceptions of law and policy makers who still see our
profession as unessential, and even an obstacle. For each of us to work together to make these happen – as individuals,
agency owners, and in support of our state, national, legislative, and specialty associations. To come together without
the new sterile term – virtual. Social distancing, an ad hoc term not in general use before 2020, predictably became all
distancing – physical and emotional – isolation; virtual barriers enhanced by the physical barriers of masks. We must
remove these false barriers, and bond together personally as families, and professionally.

Working together in making ourselves, our families, and our profession the best. Our loss of a most loved one reminds
us of this, more than any other time. As we have said for decades… Together We’re Better!

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