Author: Dan Hull
Salzburg, Austria: Mozart, salt, Huns and lawyers.
You may dream in American. But you still live in the world. Salzburg, Austria. Far from being a museum piece (e.g., Venice, […]
Earth Day 2023, Edition No. 53
Today is Earth Day, No. 53. The first was on April 22, 1970. It was started by the late U.S. Senator Gaylord […]
The Best of Partner Emeritus: On Stewardesses.
Flying is not the fun it used to be. If you came of age after The Great Neutering, here’s some great American […]
In Praise of Real Girls: Parker Posey
They’re picking up prisoners–and putting them in a pen. All she wants to do is dance. –Danny Kortchmar/WB Music Corp. ASCAP (1984) […]
12 Rules of Client Service
…are right here. Revel in their Wisdom. Ignore them at your Peril. Teach them to The Help.
Happy 53rd Earth Day. Thank you, Sen. Nelson.
Happy Birthday. Earth Day. 4.22.1970. Thank you my first boss Gaylord Nelson and Denis Hayes.
The Wrong Stuff?
What if the regime of diversity, inclusion and equity produced a substantial breakdown of the day to day management of the Western […]
Writing Well: The Editors.
“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.” –H.G. Wells (1866-1946) “I have performed the […]
Norman Cousins: But can you write?
It makes little difference how many university degrees or courses a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an […]
Frederic Leighton, “The Return of Persephone,” 1891
Spring ignored Mankind and arrived as usual. Finally. Happy Spring to any fellow Druids, Life Worshipers and Optimists. Get out of your […]
Rule 4: Deliver legal services that change the way clients think about lawyers.
Based on actual experience lawyering, we wrote and published 12 Rules of Client Service in installments during a six-month period starting in […]
Dean Swift
Swift was a Titan in rebellion against Heaven. — John L. Stoddard, 1901 Anglo-Irish, Angry and Brave: See one of our past […]
107 Things Long-Divorced Slightly Amoral American Lawyers Know.
1. Swive no one named Zoe, Brigit or Natasha. 2. Let no one leave anything in your home or hotel room. 3. […]
Lawyering: You Don’t Get to Have a Bad Day.
Job and His Friends, Vladimir Borovikovsky, 1810 There are bad days. A parent is sick. A child gets stitches. You are coming […]
The American Morality Olympics
The giddy drive to make all American civic strife a team sport or a cartoon “” complete with stock heroes and stock […]
Legal London in the Spring: Law Cattle in Love
Each Spring, we send you the complete text of a circa-1595 comedy by Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost. You can read it aloud–or, […]
Doing America: Open, Talky, Informal, Wonderfully Appalling.
People will not wait to be introduced and will even begin to speak with strangers as they stand in a line, sit […]
Still working on Maggie’s Farm?
“It’s a shame the way she makes me sweep the floor…”





























