Author: Dan Hull

“The Lawyers”, circa 1855, Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) Are the three gentlemen in Daumier’s famous sketch “client-centric” or merely “lawyer-oriented”? We will never […]

He told me that the secret to marrying a successful woman was to realize that you had married not just the woman […]

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

Wer immer strebend sich bemüht, den können wir erlösen. –Goethe Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than Man. –Sophocles in […]

I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse. —Henry James (1843-1916), after a request by the Times Literary Supplement […]

Insane Lawyer Posse? Lawyers, including some judges, have a certain way of talking to each other on paper which (1) really isn’t […]

Don’t be White Collar Trash. Don’t mess this one up. Just do it. If you are interviewing, prospecting for clients or have […]

This stretch of road just south of Monterey has “unnatural” grandeur: it’s so perfect it seems painted on. My fourth time here. […]

M.G. Krebs, Hero of Work-Life Bongo. Only about 1% of employees–if that–have a “passion for excellence” 24/7. The rest have their moments. […]

1941 photo by Carl Van Vechten Lena Horne died last year on May 9, 2010. She had natural class and confidence. She […]

Note to Gen-X and Gen-Y Guys: We know that you do whatever your women tell you to do–and that they like to […]

Do see at My Marrakesh my stalwart friend Maryam’s Mirleft, Morocco: and a Tale of Watery Treachery.

And sorry we are one day late. No one in the history of letters has ever had your courage or imagination. I […]

Last week in Phoenix I met with Mike O’Neil, friend, prof, TV news pundit, doer, fellow politics junkie and Renaissance Man. We […]

Name’s Oliver. American. Buy you a counterfeit Heineken? “Iconic” Barbie is now 52 and, in recent years, alive, well and servicing China. […]

York, England, over two years ago, by American writer Tara Bradford at her Paris Parfait: The current York Minster Cathedral was started […]

You’re both doing fine. But when we get back from lunch, Spot, let her finish the question before you bark, okay? See […]

From Maryam Montague’s peripatetic and always-elegant My Marrakesh on April 29, 2010.

Savor the Brutality. Bleed. Make Friends with the Pain. Learn not to cringe. At depositions, remember to “get The Badness in your […]

A celestial character played by actor Rip Torn in the 1991 Albert Brooks movie Defending Your Life referred to earth-bound humans as […]