Author: Dan Hull

Pittsburgh gets hip, smart and ready. If you view Western Pennsylvania as an obtuse, unoriginal and sleepy commercial backwater–an insular ex-steel region […]

No one. Ever. And Everyone likes him. NYT.

If you buy and sell in the global markets, make the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) […]

At Bloomberg, see Grove’s truly maverick “How to Make an American Job Before It’s Too Late“. Three excerpts: [P]lowing capital into young […]

Bad news for the Happysphere. And better news for serious lawyers and their clients. The down-markets do have a silver lining for […]

From a marketing e-mail I received today: “Are you frustrated by young workers who feel entitled to success, need constant praise, want […]

Here’s the Net at an infrequent good moment. And perhaps at its best. About people–and not about “alternate realities”, SEO, insular robot […]

Arbitration, and other forms of international ADR, are gaining acceptance. Many higher-end corporate clients, especially non-U.S. companies, do often “prefer” binding arbitration […]

Liberal” versus “conservative” are not labels that can be used or should be used to define anyone of quality. An original, an […]

One fine Saturday last July, London’s velvet-voiced politics pundit and broadcaster Charon QC–in his other life a well-regarded law professor and writer–interviewed […]

But they do endure. The truly global Sir Eldon Griffiths–former MP, writer and diplomat who for decades has traveled extensively in the […]

Yes, we know you dream in American. But you live in the world. Great clients know that. Do you? Apart from Mozart, […]

The Anti-Teacup. Papa wrote the book on cool quality-of-life ideas for Tubbies who just can’t take it anymore. Try them at home […]

Blue Lupines, wild roses, Moxie, fireweed. See A Public Defender’s Life in Alaska.

More unemployables. For polishing, looters head to expensive and wasteful 3-year incubation devices owned and operated by older unemployables. See Jane Genova’s […]

And the Humans grew mad. The summer. The economy. It’s not only tough times right now. It’s hot, and bloody hot in […]

Mr. Chicken: Ignore him. Note: Below is a June 8, 2009 post we like, to be honest, for its louder volume and […]

Yesterday’s $550 million settlement (in 3 months since fraud lawsuit was filed!) is more than a “nice result”. It is Magic. And […]

My Darling, we’ll come in low, out of the rising sun. Just you eight–and me. And the new Morning. About a mile […]

From a WAC/P? mainstay and 100% full-frontal blunt commenter and stand-up Irish guy (note: we are editing, enlarging and/or embellishing only parts […]

Because it’s Summer, it’s Slower, and we’re Slumming. It’s an experiment. And so far it’s a mixed neighborhood. Best part: good looking […]

Above: This bunch headed for law school? Hopefully not–but run one over if you see one just in case. Speed up a […]

No comment–but if Gingrich, 67, wanted to wait for a way-low American moment to “declare”, today’s probably that day: Monday, July 12, […]