Author: Dan Hull

Even serial over-achievers are impressed with a person who was graduated first in her class from both college and law school. In […]

If you like Easter, Gerard Manley Hopkins, his 1877 poem “The Windhover”, and/or Victorian age poetry, and no matter what if anything […]

Re: SLM No. 1, Rule 36, Requests for Admission, David Fischer, over at Antitrust Review and in Porter Wright’s DC office, pointed […]

The Windhover I caught this morning morning’s minion, king- dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level […]

From the standpoint of both the client and its trial lawyer, Rule 36 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, “Requests for […]

It makes perfect sense–and hardly anyone talks about it. But are we doing it? Visiting your client (GCs, CFOs, execs, plant managers) […]

“That Lawyer Dude” (a/k/a Anthony Colleluori), and a few others, have commented on the April 7 post on Exemplar Law Partners and/or […]

Answer: You ask right away. Each client, GC and client rep, and each project, client is different. So you ask how he […]

This week’s Blawg Review is hosted by David Giacalone at his f/k/a. A lawyer who despite his D.C. antitrust and Harvard Law […]

The past week was Pretrial Skirmish, Negotiation and General Posturing Week. Which I love. Lively chats with mainly worthy adversaries. You constantly […]

As modes of work and workplace, including their definitions, keep changing, “work ethic” is never an easy subject. And France is my […]

In response to the Exemplar Law Partners post two days ago, James T. Holden, the General Counsel of Rhino Linings USA, Inc. […]

Boston-based Exemplar Law Partners made news in mid-February when it announced that it was launching a new firm which would use exclusively […]

Two days ago, Mark Del Bianco, a colleague, friend and a DC-based telecom lawyer who once labored in DOJ’s Antitrust Division, wrote […]

Even though I was a subscriber to Inc. Magazine for years, I noticed this only recently while doing some research for this […]

Or at least get under its skin and come to know what it really thinks about you. You might be pleasantly or […]

According to this morning’s Washington Post, blogging is one of the the 3 biggest factors in driving Internet growth, along with local […]

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George M. Wallace of Declarations and Exclusions, a/k/a A Fool In The Forest, did this week’s Blawg Review with Blawg Review #51. […]

As a basic Google search will tell you in a matter of seconds, 3L Epiphany, a blog by Ian Best, a third-year […]

Which can be “Rule 13”, a new client service rule. This causes obvious problems because of today’s date. While you are thinking […]

Michelle Golden and Allison Shields each have an important post about this. If you are selling your services firm as happy, fun, […]

Rule 12 (of 12): Have Fun. See Rules 1-6 here and at these links 7,8, 9, 10 and 11. If you are […]

Nathan Burke and Tom Kane have fine, sane recent posts on this. So does Seth Godin, who started them off. In these […]

Listening arts. I’ve mentioned before that I still need work but am improving in this area. It’s a constant focus. And my […]

The Dark Goddess of Replevin Speaks did Blawg Review #50 this week, and DGR, a/k/a Seattle’s Ruth Laura Edlund, did not disappoint. […]

I’ve noted that, on the subject of clients, the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Jim Calloway “gets it”. The Canadian bar people seems to […]

Shouldn’t we all be able to to access all internet content without having to pay extra to attach adapting devices? And what […]

Evan Schaeffer in his The Illinois Trial Practice Weblog has a wonderful post “Don’t Put Discovery Disputes On A Back Burner”. It’s […]

Nathan Burke at LawFirmBlogging has a very fine “lawyer wake-up” post called “A New Way Of Thinking About Marketing“. He succinctly offers […]