About TIC's founder,
Richard J. Szrabe

"Once in a blue moon a man comes along
who grasps the relationship between events which have hitherto seemed quite separate, and gives mankind a new dimension of knowledge."​
Language, Thought, and Reality — Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf (MIT+Wiley, 1959)
TIC is an inspired, personally driven initiative
with a compelling back story

retired barrister
I was a barrister (Middle Temple) between 1982 and my retirement in 2009 — latterly, at 13 Old Square Chambers, Lincoln's Inn, London

international insurance
I specialised in a niche branch of international insurance law on which I wrote books, appeared on radio and TV, spoke at international conferences etc.

international inheritance
Since 2005 I've been involved in various international inheritance cases involving multi-million-dollar art theft, massive criminality by heirs and lawyers etc etc.

name change
In 2011, having retired, I changed my birth surname Astor (my father's choice after WW2) to Szrabe, a fun derivation of my ancestral paternal-paternal surname.
'Astor' had to go!

concert-standard pianist
One pet project is to go around the world playing all 25 Mozart one-piano piano concertos in unusual, eccentric, exotic locations — and collecting inheritance stories!



author
Currently in preparation: books on lawyer rackets, inheritance crime, defamation litigation, and more! Download some old books for free!

'[N]o-one else anywhere appears to have your overall knowledge of the nuances and complexities of inheritance.'
David Grant, Grant PR
