Back to Work, WJC Phone Home and Searching for Tattoos.

No practice tips today. Interesting IP disputes at work I was asked to help on are draining the how-to-lawyer evangelist in me. My limited blog time is spent wondering (see Patrick Lamb’s branding post yesterday about some really serious branding) if a GC or client rep indeed ever went completely around the bend–or more likely stayed way too late at Nathan’s in Georgetown or The Irish Times on Capitol Hill–and had tattooed “I [heart] Hull McGuire PC for all my tax, litigation, environmental and IP needs”. And no word from WJC on the January 27 help-wanted ad and “invitation to deal” for an of-counsel position. We are testing the blogosphere on this one–and may need another assist from Peter Lattman’s heavily-visited WSJ Law Blog, assuming he’s still game. But as WJC knows or should know that he might run into me at a future Renaissance weekend smaller and more intimate than the one we met at on January 1, or that I might be involved in fund-raising for a relative in 2008, I thought maybe he’d ring us in Pittsburgh or San Diego by now.