Need To Get My Attention? Un-Spam Yourself. Call Me.
Or we can meet and talk in person. But don’t use E-mail or Twitter. Unless, of course, you think that they may […]
Author: Dan Hull
Quick Reminder: What About Clients/Paris? is No-Wuss Zone.
Rise up. Be a person. If you are a professional who is active on the Internet, set an example. Start by using […]
Mississippi Fred McDowell: You Gotta Move.
Need to make a few changes?
Working Abroad: Expect Hiccups.
Working and lawyering abroad isn’t about being cool, wearing an ascot or pretending to be George Hamilton or a Parisian filmmaker on […]
America’s Elected Judiciary: Are We Done Yet?
The popular election of state judges is beneath all Americans. But we are so heavily invested in it, and so used to […]
Norman Cousins: But can you write?
It makes little difference how many university degrees or courses a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an […]
24/7
It’s not about the lawyers anymore. See Rule 9: Be There For Clients–24/7. And if you have great corporate clients, it all […]
Paris: Snow in the Rodin Garden.
“Snow is an uncommon occurrence in Paris and snow that sticks is practically a miracle.” On Saturday morning ex-New Yorker Richard Nahem […]
Druids worldwide to get wild around the 21st.
For centuries, starting around the 21st of the month, Druids liked to leave the house, get wild and “put on the dog”. […]
The Flourishing: Caesar’s Town in Toscana.
It started out as an Army Camp. Beginning around 60 BC, Julius Caesar founded the town on both sides of the Arno […]
Accelerated Global Arbitration Rules: A Curb on Madness.
CPR‘s are barely 15 months old. Global. Commerical. Agile. Mobile. Flexible. Deliberately Hostile to making attorneys the main event. Aggressive. We are […]
At Above The Law: “Overseeing International Litigation”.
See Mark Herrmann’s Inside Straight column yesterday at Above The Law. Excerpts: This has been fascinating (to me, at least, but I […]
New, Appalling: Google-Based Naked Bongo Lawyering For Teacups.
WAC/P? needs to get out more–and bone up on threats to Customers, Clients and Buyers. This development involves marketers, lawyers and the […]
Generation Weenie: America’s still offended by Everything and Everyone.
They’ve stopped growing–and they are very happy with that, thank you very much. These people have children. It’s worrisome. What if being […]
Trials: McElhaney on Not Digging Holes.
Argue to the judge””not with the judge. In this month’s ABA Journal, Jim McElhaney gives us “Keeping Out of a Hole: It’s […]
American Exceptionalism: How U.S. Civil Litigation Is Viewed Abroad.
Another problem: the perception abroad of the extraordinary “localism”–generally county-based–of judges and juries in the state systems. Non-U.S. clients are also wary […]
Journeys
Journeys are the midwives of thought. —Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel (2002) Edward Hopper, Compartment C, Car 293 (1938)
Above The Law Gets Serious.
A reason for lawyers over 25, and with passable mental health, to read a mega-popular law blog. Former Jones Day partner and […]
Atlantic Review: Is the War on Hysteria now Transatlantic?
Our friends at the Atlantic Review–the Berlin-based press digest founded in 2003 by German and American Fulbright alumni–write that “Like America, Germany […]
Los Angeles: Neely Swanson’s No Meaner Place.
No Meaner Place is an examination of overlooked quality in Hollywood–and the real life “failures” of the best of the best. It’s […]
King Me. Now.
Back in the day, Baby Boomer Prince Charles, now 62, was cool, mod, dashing and could do no wrong. According to some […]
Both Worlds: Got Ambition?
Who got off their knees? Who stood up? Who was Dirty? Who was Clean? Hagar and Van Halen. That’s who, ‘Cups. Re: […]
Jim McElhaney: Jurors–and Lawyer Fatigue.
Most jurors are smarter than you think. Granted, they do weird things. But they get subtleties. They take their jobs seriously. And […]
MCC
It’s the kind of publication the entire Western world would be reading if Nazis had won WWII. Second only to “Super Lawyers”–check […]
Writing For Clients–Just Say It-Part 3
For me, the greatest single wedge driven between clients and lawyers is “legal” writing. In response to this blawg’s December 14 post […]
Writing Well: Satire–and Law?
The satirist is to be regarded as our physician, not our enemy. —Henry Fielding, 1707-1754 Like lawyers, physicians may no longer be […]
Great Work-Life Balance Moments in the Movies.
He’s saying he didn’t want to be President of the United States so he could stay home and be “Daddy”? Give me […]
Atlantic Review: Is the War on Hysteria now Transatlantic?
Our friends at the Atlantic Review–the Berlin-based press digest founded in 2003 by German and American Fulbright alumni–write that “Like America, Germany […]