Lawyering: Invoice some hourly work promptly every 2 weeks.
For relatively urgent things, or for transactions or litigation when they get fast. Here’s a suggestion to make both clients and firms […]
Author: Dan Hull
Equinox: Honey, it’s Mabon already.
Get your Druid learn on. Today marks the Autumnal Equinox. Cultures and religions worldwide do get weird this time of year. It’s […]
Overheard in Los Angeles
Life is short, opera is long, and Wagner is longer. —Plácido Domingo, Spanish tenor, L.A. Opera general director. German tenor Johannes Sembach […]
Atonement
Long ago, on the two Jewish high holidays, my brother and I would be two of a very few gentile students who […]
Fraught with Legal Obstacles: American Family Weekends.
With thanks to Charon QC, our man in West London.
Got a Customer Experience Idea for You Right Here: Change the Way Clients Think About Lawyers.
Why? Because even the most sophisticated clients think that too many of us are still clueless dorks who don’t help much. See […]
Goin’ up country, Mama don’t you want to go?
My mother died and left me reckless, my daddy died and left me wild.u
Detroit’s MC5: Pluperfect Rock Warriors.
(Warning: Skip 52-second “Gail Intro” on Ramblin’ Rose unless you have near-perfect mental health.)
Living in America: On the Good Foot.
James Brown, Godfather of Soul, was the hardest-working poor kid ever.
1922: James Joyce gets crazy with Hemingway.
Joyce said to me he was afraid his writing was too suburban and that maybe he should get around a bit and […]
Got New Associates?
See “What are you thinking?” Also entitled: “If a neuron fires in a brilliant young lawyer’s head, and no one hears it […]
Speaking of Jim McElhaney: Cross-Examination.
See his classic ABA Journal article “It’s All About You“. Learn more about something hard. Excerpt: Stop trying to talk like lawyers. […]
You work like Pete Townshend plays? Well, do you?
Got Fire? “I want it. I want it. I want it. I want it.”
Heroes: E.D. Hirsch, Jr. and Core Knowledge Foundation.
Eric Hirsch founded the Charlottesville-based Core Knowledge Foundation in 1986.
Inspiration: You have to go after it with a club.
She’s got wonderful eyes. And a whiskey mouth.
Best Books on Lawyering: Mark Herrmann’s “The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law”.
When you finally do take a deposition, I want you to remember two things… –Mark Herrmann, page 59, Chapter 6: “Seven Hours […]
Heroes: Daniel O’Connell
Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847), the “Liberator of Ireland”, led a movement that forced the British to pass the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829, […]
The Other Deficit: Credibility of American domestic policy abroad.
America should calm down and examine its own gun-control policy. –One Chinese commentator yesterday This morning, Evan Osnos, a staff writer for […]
Does the travel industry miss the whole point of London?
Should London be redesigned and redeveloped to look like one of those cute, sterile and bouncy customer-friendly shopping centers in the American […]
We still miss you, Rozann Stayden.
My long-time friend Rozann Stayden from both Cincinnati and DC days died on February 24 last year. It’s taken some time to […]
My friend Rozann Stayden from both Cincinnati and Washington, D.C. died on February 24 this year.
Rozann Stayden.
My friend Rozann Stayden died on February 24 this year. We met in Cincinnati as students in 1977 and, a few years […]
This Mexico Business: Gringo Madness Interrupted. But throw in Hope, too.
Even more than old enduring good ideas, and new compelling good ones, I remain in love with human beings at their best. […]
By Cross-Culture’s R.D. Lewis: “When Teams Collide”.
By Richard D. Lewis, Nicholas Brealey International (2012)
The Economist’s Daily Chart: Terrorist Attacks–The Last Ten Years of “Fear and Loathing”.
While most of us are aware that terrorist attacks over the last 10 years have been concentrated in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, […]