The World-Famous 12 Rules of Client Service: Embrace Them. Improve Them. Teach Them to the Help.
The 12 Rules, that’s who. Sometimes all you need is what one favorite poet called a New Mind. These now classic if eternally […]
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107 Things Slightly Amoral Yank Lawyers Know
1. Date no one named Zoe, Brigit or Natasha. 2. No one you just met can leave anything in your home or […]
Draconian
Greek lawgiver Draco (c. 600 BC) standing in U.S. Supreme Court building between the “Light of Wisdom” and Confucius. South Frieze, right […]
Melvin Tolson’s Harlem Gallery
A funny, fearless and densely layered poem (1960s super-critic Karl Shapiro said the “baroque” style used made it funnier and more ironic), […]
Standards
Just realized today that I’m generally not good friends with anyone who hasn’t been (a) kicked out of a bar, (b) thrown […]
O Rare Partner Emeritus Redux
If you work for a peer firm, you will encounter me or someone very much like me. [Y]ou cannot avoid the essence […]
In Praise of Structure
Above: E practicing Structure. This 2006 post is from our famous Evergreen Collection. We haven’t seen a need to revise it much. […]
Racehorse Haynes on Imperfections
“I would have won them all if my clients hadn’t kept reloading and firing.” –Richard “Racehorse” Haynes (1927-2017). Trial Lawyer.
Christmas Clients
Just opened a nice Christmas card from a brand new, youngish CEO (born late 1980s) of an Ohio-based company. He also handwrote […]
One Night/One Person: 2025-26 Edition
The purpose of this post—which we keep revising every time we post it—is simple. To keep humans alive during the 30 coldest […]
Our World-Famous 12 Rules of Client Service: Embrace Them. Improve Them. Teach Them to the Help.
The 12 Rules, that’s who. Sometimes all you need is what one favorite poet called a New Mind. These now classic if […]
Manhattan Congressman Dan Sickles: Player. Planner. 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 […]
The Real St. Nick: 4th century bishop, philanthropist, pol, crowd-pleaser.
Died December 6, 343 AD Happy Holidays. A word about the real Santa is in order, and we are happy to report […]
Merry Christmas…
Merry Christmas, All. And in 2026 worry about everyone’s culture globally, not your pedestrian “politics.” We are in a fight to preserve […]
My season in Hell.
Once again, it’s a miserable tortuous Hell to be a ridiculously good-looking Anglo male on American streets. You’re treated like a decorative […]
We miss you, Big John…
“John Daniel Hull III ( May 17, 1928 – December 27, 2012) of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Marco Island, Florida, a longtime executive […]
Thanks, Little People…my new LinkedIn bio…
Dan Hull represents publicly traded corporations, executives, and public figures in the U.S. and abroad. Both highly-sought trial counsel and storied problem-solver, […]
Dad at 13: December 7, 1941.
Eighty-four years today, also on a Sunday, my Dad, 13, came home in the afternoon with a basketball as usual under his […]
Pilgrims
Happy Thanksgiving from my energetic clan. We are grateful for our Suffolk-to-Boston voyage 391 years ago in time to play major roles […]
Armistice: Though Poppies Grow In Flanders Fields….
Armistice: Though Poppies Grow In Flanders Fields… Always on November 11, Veterans Day comes to us from World War I, or the […]
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)