Vital Voices, Improbability–and Julie Meets Hillary.
Last night my law partner and respected corporate tax attorney, Julie McGuire, an alleged Republican, was unexpectedly introduced to Hillary Rodham Clinton, […]
Month: April 2006
“Declarations” as Substitutes for Affidavits.
In 1976 Congress passed a barely-noticed short housekeeping addition to Title 28, the part of the U.S. Code that deals with federal […]
Department of Legal Life Outside America: Last Call for Australian and NZ Legal Weblogs.
A little help? We’re still looking for recommendations of any good Australian and New Zealand blawgs as part of the continuing effort […]
Here’s a Post I Wish Were Mine…On Offering Solutions.
Outstanding, and it’s something I’ve been trying to say is wrong with us lawyers–but someone said it better. From Christopher Marston at […]
Wild and Crazy Client Service Ideas.
Here’s a client service-oriented “marketing stunt” idea from Al Lautenslager, a Chicago-based consultant and the Guerilla Marketing coach at Entrepreneur.com. It’s over […]
The Guardian: Blogging in Europe is Already Driving Ideas and Markets.
Justin Patten of the London-based blog Human Law – Law, Technology and People reports an interesting Manchester Guardian article on the growing […]
Sensitive Litigation Moment No. 2: The “Miracle” of Rule 56(f), Fed. R. Civ. P.
Trial lawyers know that Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, or “Summary Judgment”, gives a litigant an opportunity to […]
The Sacred, Immovable, No-Excuses Weekly Phone Call.
About seven years ago, our firm started the practice of weekly phone conferences for lengthy but intense projects where things generally happen […]
Blawg Review #53: Jim Maule, Tax Day and Taxation as Pervasive.
Blawg Review #53 by Villanova Professor James Edward Maule at MauledAgain is further support for my relatively new but ever-strengthening theory that […]
More Comments on Exemplar, and Fixed-Price Alternatives to the Billable Hour.
Christopher Marston, the CEO of Exemplar Law Partners, the Boston-based fixed-price alternative, has joined the still-growing responses (15 total comments to date) […]
Carnival of Value-Pricing and Fixed Price Models.
Aside from the Exemplar series in this blog, there are several very good discussions going on right now on value pricing and […]
Do What You Love: Hero 4 – Julie Elizabeth McGuire
Even serial over-achievers are impressed with a person who was graduated first in her class from both college and law school. In […]
Easter, Victorian Verse and “The Windhover”.
If you like Easter, Gerard Manley Hopkins, his 1877 poem “The Windhover”, and/or Victorian age poetry, and no matter what if anything […]
Update to SLM No. 1: Rule 36, Requests for Admission – More Than A Discovery Tool
Re: SLM No. 1, Rule 36, Requests for Admission, David Fischer, over at Antitrust Review and in Porter Wright’s DC office, pointed […]
Springtime, Renewal and Starting Over.
The Windhover I caught this morning morning’s minion, king- dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level […]
Sensitive Litigation Moment-No. 1: “Lonely” Rule 36, Fed. R. Civ. P.
From the standpoint of both the client and its trial lawyer, Rule 36 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, “Requests for […]
Kane: Visit Your Client At Work.
It makes perfect sense–and hardly anyone talks about it. But are we doing it? Visiting your client (GCs, CFOs, execs, plant managers) […]
“That Lawyer Dude’s” Advice to GCs on Costs, Real Quality and Real Life.
“That Lawyer Dude” (a/k/a Anthony Colleluori), and a few others, have commented on the April 7 post on Exemplar Law Partners and/or […]
“Uncle Jack, how do you keep your client informed without being an annoying pain in the ass””
Answer: You ask right away. Each client, GC and client rep, and each project, client is different. So you ask how he […]
Blawg Review #52 – If this doesn’t sell you on lawyers blogging, nothing will.
This week’s Blawg Review is hosted by David Giacalone at his f/k/a. A lawyer who despite his D.C. antitrust and Harvard Law […]
The Joy of Work, Burned-Out Lawyers & the 1st “What About Clients?” Post
The past week was Pretrial Skirmish, Negotiation and General Posturing Week. Which I love. Lively chats with mainly worthy adversaries. You constantly […]
France: Civilized, Educated, Talented, Proud – But Not Like Us?
As modes of work and workplace, including their definitions, keep changing, “work ethic” is never an easy subject. And France is my […]
One GC’s View of the Billable Hour.
In response to the Exemplar Law Partners post two days ago, James T. Holden, the General Counsel of Rhino Linings USA, Inc. […]
Catching Up With Exemplar Law: “No Hourly Bills, No Hourly Bull”.
Boston-based Exemplar Law Partners made news in mid-February when it announced that it was launching a new firm which would use exclusively […]
Del Bianco: AT&T – BellSouth Merger May Not Be a Done Deal.
Two days ago, Mark Del Bianco, a colleague, friend and a DC-based telecom lawyer who once labored in DOJ’s Antitrust Division, wrote […]
Inc. Magazine: Best Customer-Service Practices
Even though I was a subscriber to Inc. Magazine for years, I noticed this only recently while doing some research for this […]
Adam Smith: “Know Your Client.”
Or at least get under its skin and come to know what it really thinks about you. You might be pleasantly or […]
Washington Post: Blogging is now a major player in Internet growth.
According to this morning’s Washington Post, blogging is one of the the 3 biggest factors in driving Internet growth, along with local […]
Blawg Review #51’s Writer is Nobody’s April Fool.
George M. Wallace of Declarations and Exclusions, a/k/a A Fool In The Forest, did this week’s Blawg Review with Blawg Review #51. […]