Author: Dan Hull

“That a local judge in your pocket? Or you just happy to see me?“ State judicial systems with popularly-elected judges send two […]

Atlanta-based Barnes & Thornburg partner John L. Watkins recently launched a multi-part site called Watkins Mediation: Business Mediation Resources, which includes a […]

The Duke Experience. In The Chronicle, the award-winning, muckraking, star-hatching, and these days way-tawdry 105-year-old Duke daily newspaper, visit “Sex List Draws […]

The most beautiful maiden in the leper colony. Why try “to exceed expectations” when the overall lawyer standard is perceived as low […]

I spend a lot of time here. Like my beloved alma mater hundreds of miles away, it is s small but serious […]

From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Sunday, February 3, 2008, “One of us“.

Why not? I do like Rahm–and always have. This is not merely because Rahm Emanuel might well have been my Congressman, and […]

MP David Miliband v. MP Edward Miliband. LA Times: “Britain’s Labor Party Chooses New Leader“. This happened in intra-party elections held Saturday […]

No, no, he’s not from the chubby U.S. Midwest–too erudite, measured, svelte, and well-read–but good guess. We admire Albion’s new star Duncan […]

Who do you really want for the hunt? Or as one Boomer said, quoted by Scott Greenfield in a fine Simple Justice […]

Back in the Pre-Squeak Age, most people who wrote or said things were really proud–and not ashamed–of who they were. When you […]

Watch closely. At some point, a law firm, a law student, or a recent law grad may very well may bring a […]

Columbia Pictures Not really. But those folks do seem to be getting out more. Why are we talking about accountants here, anyway? […]

AAA Handbook on Commercial Arbitration–2nd Edition Editors: Thomas E. Carbonneau, Jeanette A. Jaeggi

Will someone please send one of the damn clerks to the Church of the Final Thunder down the street and Shepardize a […]

All 6 seasons of “St. Elsewhere”–the much praised mid-1980s ensemble cast TV drama–starts today on the ALN cable channel. Relive the quality, […]

“Honey, just wear a black turtleneck–even Ned Beatty looks good in a black turtleneck.” Club Ned: Beatty days before his first Georgia […]

Charles de Gaulle in 1947: “Two more months. And that’s it, okay?” There’s just no other way to say it. Sure, wouldn’t […]

“Bring it, Skippy.” Two partners excited about their evaluations. Pardon me. But isn’t employee (and associate) satisfaction the responsibility of both employers […]

Is bribery by many foreigners normal, “fair game”, an option, or rare? Inspired by Rich Brubaker at his All Roads Lead to […]