Author: Dan Hull

[Y]ou can continue to discredit or dismiss me as a character. I guarantee you one thing. If you work for a peer […]

Rule 3 of our astonishing 12 Rules of Client Service was written in December of 2005. It’s simple to understand–but hard to […]

Elizabeth McGovern in 2012.

To us, in our lapsed estate, resting, not advancing, resisting, not cooperating with the divine expansion, this growth comes by shocks. We […]

“The comparisons between ancient Rome and present-day America are exciting and instructive.” ~ Dan Hull, 2013 “When in Rome, do as many […]

1. Represent only clients you ‘like’. 2. The client is the main event. 3. Make sure everyone in your firm knows the […]

Yes, “read the rule…” The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are remarkable and, well, amazing. They vibrate, hum and glow with the […]

Today July 12 is the 36th anniversary of my drink. It was at Kelly’s Irish Times on F Street. Thank you Penny […]

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Survivors of Pickett’s Charge walk the field their comrades fell upon. Gettysburg 50th anniversary, July 3, 1913.

The House select committee on J6 has outdone Tailgunner Joe McCarthy at his worst. Some media thinks it’s not a shameful circus […]

Happy 72nd, you two kids. You were both broke, average students, and willing. Thank you for the constant caring, the time, putting […]

“Democracy” HAS been tortured into “everyone is inherently equal”””and nothing could be further from the truth. We are only equal before the […]

Let’s get England back. I miss England. England was cool. England once had free expression.

“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.” “• Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), […]

Break the rules at your peril. People will say mean things about your dog, your wife, your girlfriend, or all three. In […]

New Orleans-based writer, lawyer and Renaissance man Gene Dwyer is a gifted storyteller. Get and ready his novel about Marie Laveau. “˜Til […]

Angus McKinnon Young (1955- ) Robert Burns, Bard of Ayrshire (1759-1796)

Or you may view it as a classic of anthropology. Whatever you call it, it is serious scholarship and in a class […]

Anthony Burgess’s frightening 1962 dystopian novel Clockwork Orange and satire is not my favorite book. Its spectacular 1971 adaptation to Hollywood blockbuster, […]

“There’s not a man in a carload of you.” – John Daniel Hull III (May 17, 1928 – December 12, 2012) Happy […]

“ªYou can’t wait for Inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. “ª”” Jack London (1876-1916)”¬ London in 1905″¬