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About TIC's founder,
Richard J. Szrabe

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"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.

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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.

Check out my firm.

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!

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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!

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author

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

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

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