POTUS 2016: Running out the Clock.
With 27 days to go, all Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to do is run out the clock. Stick to real issues. Talk […]
Author: Dan Hull
Debate No. 2: HRC 1, Trump 1.
Credit where it’s due. As expected, both candidates were much better last night overall than they were in the first debate. But […]
U.S. Supreme Court on writers, poets and starving artists.
We are asked to recognize that authors are congenitally irresponsible, that frequently they are so sorely pressed for funds that they are […]
Pence 1, Kaine 0.
I am still voting for Hillary Clinton. But Pence stepped up in the Vice-Presidential debates last night. He was gathered, genuine and […]
Partner Emeritus: Associate lawyering, work ethic, time ethic and real life.
Remarks late last year made by one Partner Emeritus in comments to “Old Lady Lawyer: Ageism Knows No Age“, a post by […]
Good v. Bad Choices: Do most people make any choices at all?
Don’t mean to go all Sartre on you guys but I’m always amused at the concept of “making bad choices” in life. […]
HRC 1, DJT 0
Credit where it’s due re: last night’s historic first 2016 POTUS debate in New York City. The evening belonged to HRC. She […]
Duke upsets Notre Dame, 38-35. In South Bend.
Amazing Saturday college football news. And in South Bend. Whoa. When I was a Duke student, few ever attended football games. Soccer […]
15 years ago, on the day of new definitions, what did you think about most?
Photograph by Thomas E. Franklin.
REDUX: Performance Reviews Based On Client Service Criteria?
And why not? At least once a year each employee at our firm is evaluated in a process in which written evaluations […]
Timothy Trainer’s War on Fake Stuff
D.C.-based Timothy Trainer is one a handful of intellectual property lawyers globally who can put international IP rights enforcement in plain but […]
Partner Emeritus at ATLS: The Banning of Steven Dean.
Partner Emeritus, the much-beloved Dean Swift of Above The Law Surrogate (ATLS), reports on strange and depraved behavior–even by American lawyer standards–at […]
The Epoch Times: Global Populism.
This is interesting. As I’ve worried, and as you might have expected, America does not own the New Populism. The entire developed, […]
The Proper Ordering of Lunch.
Sorry but we love this clip. WAC/P is all about work–but we prize deportment and manners, too. So write us a thank […]
Best of ATL Surrogate’s Partner Emeritus: PE Does ‘Nam.
If you work for a peer firm, you will encounter me or someone very much like me. [Y]ou cannot avoid the essence […]
Desperately Seeking: Who is the Blonde Woman who first appears at 2:30 in the clip?
Guess I’m hooked. Who is she? She would have been born around 1956 at latest, I think.
Congratulations Chicago’s Hillary Rodham, Wellesley ’69
Nicely done. Even though you’ve been in the national spotlight since age 21, you are thank God no natural pol. That’s why […]
Don’t get hysterical about POTUS elections: November 2016 will be our 58th time.
ATTENTION Family, Friends, Clients, Coworkers, Fellow Duke Alums, Ex-Girlfriends, Squash Partners: 1. Every 4 years for the last 227 years, America’s gone […]
The Last Boomer: “It was the rock ‘n’ roll, mate”.
I see them in the streets I see them in the field I hear them shouting under my feet And I know […]
What Matters.
#allcatslivesmatter #alldogslivesmatter To be completely honest, I am not sure about anyone else.
Washington Examiner on Energy & Environment.
Writer John Siciliano at right-leaning but non-hysterical and quite talented Washington Examiner does fine work on energy and environment law and policy, […]
Peirce Mill: Since 1829 in Rock Creek Park.
Above: Peirce Mill in 1918, already nearly a century old, located at the key Washington, D.C. crossroads of Tilden Street and Beach […]
July 5, 2016. Just as Bad: Eric Clapton weighs in on Tuesdays.
Tuesday’s just as bad. “Sundays I go to church. I get down on my knees. I begin to pray. And this is […]
Modern Men: Indoor Neutered Cats.
I see it on the streets, in stores, at sporting events, in airports and in both cities and town. The female demand […]
Free State of Jones
I saw “Free State of Jones” last night. First-rate if not perfect movie. History as it was and is. No demons. No […]
Dude, where’s my ABA?
From a comment I made on line yesterday but I thought important enough to put here. Both the American Bar Association and […]
Brexit!
Old Blighty voted yesterday to leave the EU. About 52 to 48% spread with 72% of population voting. Scotland and London voted […]