Author: Dan Hull

Lucien Carr: Beat icon, pro, original, work ethic rich kid, excitable boy. I met Beat badboy legend Carr once and briefly when […]

John Shields, 1971 Class Valedictorian, Indian Hill High School, Indian Hill, Ohio, on April 30, 2022. No, he’s not dead. I just […]

It’s scary. If you’re working, you’re marketing–and that is Rule 6 of the 12 Rules.

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” – J.L.

“Oppression Coffee” is a startup I’ve joked about but I am now thinking seriously about launching it. Unlike ‘fair trade’ coffee products […]

Let’s hear it for those who create. Babies, books, music, art, new ideas. New forms and new minds. Below: Romain Rolland, 1866-1944. […]

Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are […]

You think you’re scrappy, resourceful, resilient and tough? Robert Frost spent his life as a poet, student, teacher, newspaper reporter, farmer, factory […]

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

My 2nd favorite Tom Wolfe book. “I am Charlotte Simmons.” Plot: Hillbilly Mensa babe cracks Duke University.

Bring back real women. Please. Below: Cannes Film Festival 2001.

The Governess, 1739, Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin (1699-1779) In case your Governess never told you, you’re from Utah, or you were stoned all seven […]

Now’s a good time to buy or borrow a book your friends and colleagues have raved about for a quarter century and […]

If you’ve nothing nice to say, come sit by me. ~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth, d. 1980

You cannot afford to act for business clients you do not like and respect. Rule One: Represent Only Clients You “Like”. Life’s […]

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

This is William Beard Hull (1837-1929), my Virginia-born great-great grandfather who in 1866 named his first born son John Daniel Hull. Bill […]

Class acts get harder to find. She is one of them.

Nancy Susan Hull McCracken (1925-2023). Family hero. Born Springfield, MO. Died Chicago, IL. Photo: DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, circa 1947.

Slave Owner. Womanizer. Rebel. Founding Father. Writer. Inventor. Sage. Wit. Polymath. All-Round Badass.

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) Thank you for Free Verse, young man.

McCrae in 1912 Veterans Day””or Poppy Day in the U.K. and Europe””is always on November 11. We Americans on Veterans Day honor […]

Can we stop feeding the Monster every time we get the chance? Some legal memos, cases summaries and strategy documents “you can […]

There’s no point in being Irish if you don’t know that the world is going to break your heart eventually. I guess […]

Or just happy to see me? Judges should not have “constituents.” But in most American states, they still do. And there is […]