Updated, New, Improved, More Objectionable: 107 Things Old Boomer Cad Lawyers Know
1. Date no one named Zoe, Brigit or Natasha. 2. The girl you just met can’t leave anything in your house or […]
Popocatépetl
Geoffrey Firmin (The Consul). Born India, 1892. Died Quauhnahuac, Mexico, November 2, 1939.
The Tridium of Allhallowtide
Andrea di Bonaiuto, “The Church Militant and Church Triumphant,” Santa Maria Novella, Florence (1365)
My updated bio….
Dan Hull represents publicly traded corporations, company executives, and public figures in the U.S. and abroad. Both highly-sought trial counsel and storied […]
The New What About Paris?
It starts today, Campers.
A Terrible Beauty: Part Deux
Cork on Easter Sunday,1913
Middlebrook
This is Hull country. This is Middlebrook, Virginia. German Holls/Hohls got here from the Palatine via Rotterdam and Philadelphia around 1750. They […]
Real Women: Natalie Portman.
“You don’t need the money with a face like that.” Born in Jerusalem in the summer of 1981, she is a citizen […]
The Slackoisie
Urban Dictionary: Slackoisie Slackoisie. Prounounced “Slack-wah-zee”. This term was coined by J. Daniel Hull, Esq., author of the “What About Clients?” blawg, […]
Congressman Daniel Sickles: Original Gangster, Radical Dude.
In 1859, in Lafayette Park, U.S. Representative Daniel Sickles shot and killed fellow lawyer Philip Barton Key II, son of Francis Scott […]
Another Holy Surprise: Georgetown’s Potomac Boat Club.
Below is a photograph of Georgetown near Key Bridge (the bridge barely out of the picture on the right) on the Potomac […]
Young Ben Disraeli: On Writing Well.
When I want to read a good book, I write one. –Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
Euripides on Speech, Expression, Humor, Satire.
This is slavery, not to speak one’s thought. “” EurÃpides (480-406 BC)
The Judgment of Paris
Paris was a bold man who presum’d To judge the beauty of a Goddess. —John Dryden The Judgment of Paris, Lucas Cranach […]
Easter
Happy Easter, y’all. The time of new beginnings. Step back from the canvas. Sharpen the tools. Get a religion. Call someone who […]
Charlotte Rampling: Still smoldering in three languages.
Great gifts, persistence and drive are hard to beat. If you don’t know who Charlotte Rampling is, do find out. Ah, Charlotte. […]
We need Chuck Norris.
Just checked my news curator-aggregator (Flipboard) and every article says everything everywhere is all fucked up. We need Chuck Norris right now.
Jack London on Writing
You can’t wait for inspiration; you have to go after it with a club. “” Jack London
A Federal Discovery Rule Sleeper You Can Use: Rule 27, Fed. R. Civ. P.
You hosin’ us, Mr. Hull? Rule 27 of the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is “Depositions to Perpetuate Testimony”. It’s not […]
Holy Surprises & Saving Graces: Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 56(d).
Early-in-the-case Rule 56 motion. Note well-dressed Brit General Counsel taking a bullet. Rule 56 (d) When Facts Are Unavailable to the Nonmovant. […]
Mary Harris Jones, “Grandmother of All Agitators”
Big ones. School teacher, seamstress, businesswoman, community organizer, Chicago girl and Ireland-born, Mary Harris “Mother Jones” (1837-1930) had big ones. What a […]
St. Genevieve saves us all.
“I know it, I see it. The Huns will not come.” Sainte Genevieve (422-512) saved Parisians from the Huns, the legend goes, […]
Storytelling
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. —Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
Dylan Thomas reading Fern Hill
Dylan Thomas (d. 1953) reads Fern Hill: “Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs….” His voice–those Welsh pipes–was […]
I’m OK – You’re a Narcissist: “Narcissism” is the Newest Cooties
We all like to feel special, unique and, at times, superior. It doesn’t mean we are insular, evil or bonkers. It doesn’t […]