Author: Dan Hull

There is no joy except in creation. There are no living beings but those who create. All the rest are shadows, hovering […]

Picking up women and girls is something every straight young guy should learn early. Or call it something else. Courtship. Flirtation. Seduction. […]

More than a tower or a statue, or an artist’s or soldier’s name on a plaque or street post, the green bookstalls […]

Those now green Paris book stands lining the Seine go back. 500 years at least. You don’t read? Go there alone. Any […]

Hermann the German, or Arminius, was a leader of Roman Auxiliary Cavalry in the 9th Century AD. In the three-day battle known […]

“Once they let you get away with running around for ten years like a king hoodlum, you tend to forget now and […]

Lawyers take to politics like bears to honey. Other things being equal, try to pick lawyers who are active in politics. The […]

A youngish, attractive female human “”between 18 and 25 from “her” photo “” recently friended me on Facebook. I apparently accepted thinking […]

Is anything human-made more beautiful? Below is Folio 292r (circa 800) of The Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript of the four […]

Image: Ragdoll Productions for BBC TV What kind of human makes a great lawyer? I don’t mean a go-through-the-motions lawyer, a tell-you-what-the […]

Taken in 2023, this is the most unflattering Marco Island birthday photo I could find. There isn’t even a beach in it. […]

Eternity is a mere moment–just long enough for a joke. –Hermann Hesse’s version of Goethe, dead, possessed of a superior perspective, and […]

An essayist at heart, American novelist, poet and playwright James Baldwin (1924-1987) wrote his experimental fourth novel about the life of Leo […]

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

Do lawyers know how to get things done, done right and done on time? Do we even value that? I wonder. No, […]

@Geeklawyer on Dan Hull and What About Clients/Paris? “Hull? A depraved evil sociopathic neocon beast pretending to love clients to get into […]

The most civilized nations of modern Europe issued from the woods of Germany; in the rude institutions of those Barbarians we [received] […]

If you work for a peer firm, you will encounter me or someone very much like me. I or some form of […]

As with London, and with the County of Suffolk to the north, from where my mother’s family came to Massachusetts via Ipswich […]

Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847), the “Liberator of Ireland”, led a movement that forced the British to pass the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829, […]

We no longer require humor in poets. We demand salvation. “” Mark Van Doren, 1950, commenting on the subtle graduation of William […]

No one really knows who wrote “Le Morte d’Arthur.” The best bet is Sir Thomas Malory, a mid-15th century knight and rogue’s […]

Immortality, the 1990 novel by the late Czech writer Milan Kundera (1929-2023), is the one book everyone should read to understand ultra-political […]