Author: Dan Hull
My updated bio….
Dan Hull represents publicly traded corporations, company executives, and public figures in the U.S. and abroad. Both highly-sought trial counsel and storied […]
The New What About Paris?
It starts today, Campers.
A Terrible Beauty: Part Deux
Cork on Easter Sunday,1913
Middlebrook
This is Hull country. This is Middlebrook, Virginia. German Holls/Hohls got here from the Palatine via Rotterdam and Philadelphia around 1750. They […]
Real Women: Natalie Portman.
“You don’t need the money with a face like that.” Born in Jerusalem in the summer of 1981, she is a citizen […]
The Slackoisie
Urban Dictionary: Slackoisie Slackoisie. Prounounced “Slack-wah-zee”. This term was coined by J. Daniel Hull, Esq., author of the “What About Clients?” blawg, […]
Another Holy Surprise: Georgetown’s Potomac Boat Club.
Below is a photograph of Georgetown near Key Bridge (the bridge barely out of the picture on the right) on the Potomac […]
Young Ben Disraeli: On Writing Well.
When I want to read a good book, I write one. –Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
Euripides on Speech, Expression, Humor, Satire.
This is slavery, not to speak one’s thought. “” EurÃpides (480-406 BC)
The Judgment of Paris
Paris was a bold man who presum’d To judge the beauty of a Goddess. —John Dryden The Judgment of Paris, Lucas Cranach […]
Easter
Happy Easter, y’all. The time of new beginnings. Step back from the canvas. Sharpen the tools. Get a religion. Call someone who […]
Charlotte Rampling: Still smoldering in three languages.
Great gifts, persistence and drive are hard to beat. If you don’t know who Charlotte Rampling is, do find out. Ah, Charlotte. […]
We need Chuck Norris.
Just checked my news curator-aggregator (Flipboard) and every article says everything everywhere is all fucked up. We need Chuck Norris right now.
Jack London on Writing
You can’t wait for inspiration; you have to go after it with a club. “” Jack London
A Federal Discovery Rule Sleeper You Can Use: Rule 27, Fed. R. Civ. P.
You hosin’ us, Mr. Hull? Rule 27 of the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is “Depositions to Perpetuate Testimony”. It’s not […]
Holy Surprises & Saving Graces: Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 56(d).
Early-in-the-case Rule 56 motion. Note well-dressed Brit General Counsel taking a bullet. Rule 56 (d) When Facts Are Unavailable to the Nonmovant. […]
Mary Harris Jones, “Grandmother of All Agitators”
Big ones. School teacher, seamstress, businesswoman, community organizer, Chicago girl and Ireland-born, Mary Harris “Mother Jones” (1837-1930) had big ones. What a […]
Dylan Thomas reading Fern Hill
Dylan Thomas (d. 1953) reads Fern Hill: “Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs….” His voice–those Welsh pipes–was […]
I’m OK – You’re a Narcissist: “Narcissism” is the Newest Cooties
We all like to feel special, unique and, at times, superior. It doesn’t mean we are insular, evil or bonkers. It doesn’t […]
Newly Improved and Righteous: 107 Things Long-Divorced Amoral Lawyers Know
WJC and writer, January 1, 2009, noon, Charleston 1. Date no one named Zoe, Brigit or Natasha. 2. No one you just […]
Rule 7: Know Thy Client
See Rule 7: Know the Client. Every great client wants you to know him, her or it. Take time out to learn […]
Ray Davies: A Nod to Old Blighty.
Ray Davies cries “Victoria”, Glastonbury 2010
Michigan Links, Golf and Eddie Guest, the People’s Poet, 1919.
Guest in Detroit, 1935 Enormously popular for the first half of the 20th century, Detroit’s Edgar A. Guest (1881-1959) charmed America with […]
Pointe Aux Barques, Michigan
For me, it beats Big Sur and the Austrian Alps. My favorite place in the world, it is desolate in the winter […]

























