I spent last week in New York, visiting my in-laws. The day after we returned to California, my mother-in-law, Judith Winship, died after a long illness. She was 78.

She was a lawyer, admitted to the New York bar in 1980 as Judith Carlson Greene. She spent her career as an in-house lawyer, starting at Smith Barney and sticking with the company as it merged with Salomon Brothers, then Travelers Group, then Citigroup, where she was an associate general counsel when she retired in 2001. After retirement, she went on to serve as a FINRA arbitrator.