Author: Dan Hull

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 […]

John Keats (1795-1821) by William Hilton, 1822 Oil on canvass 25″ x 20″ National Portrait Gallery, London

Viking dinners are awesome and rad. Let’s bring those back.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825″“1905) The Day of the Dead, 1859 This is All Souls Day.

Best book ever written about November 2.

Speaking of Halloween and the musical occult. Cincinnati, Ohio. Saw my first live rock show here in summer of 1969. The late […]