June 28, 2006February 27, 2025Uncategorized Shameless Plug: Doing Business In North America (2006 edition) Yorkhill Law Publishing, an arm of the respected Center for International Legal Studies in Salzburg, Austria, recently released the 2006 update of […]
June 28, 2006February 27, 2025Uncategorized International Arbitration Here’s a first-rate primer on international arbitration by lawyers from DLA Piper’s London and New York offices. It appeared June 26 in […]
June 26, 2006February 27, 2025Uncategorized Calloway on Client Expectations Terrific post by Jim Calloway at his respected Law Practice Tips Blog on perhaps the most difficult of all client/customer tasks: creating […]
June 26, 2006February 27, 2025Uncategorized Client Blogs on a Roll: Herz, Golden and Kane. Clients. If you are interested in getting and keeping good ones, and deepening your relationships with them in ways that aren’t shrill […]
June 23, 2006February 27, 2025Uncategorized Sensitive Trial Moment No. 6: “Subsequent Remedial” Advice. Here’s a simple way to get a litigation client to stay on with your firm for non-litigation work. Trial lawyers are constantly […]
June 22, 2006February 27, 2025Uncategorized The New Constant: European Hostility Toward U.S. This column by Newsweek‘s Richard Wolffe and Holly Bailey appeared yesterday in Newsweek online. My two cents is that the column understates […]
June 22, 2006February 27, 2025Uncategorized Latin American Legal Weblogs? To follow up on earlier posts over the past few months, WAC? is calling for suggestions of active legal weblogs from or […]
June 22, 2006February 27, 2025Uncategorized Client-Centric Ads? Is It Time? In advertising, never attack your own industry. I read that long ago. But in 1998–when people started to realize that a combination […]
June 20, 2006February 27, 2025Uncategorized The Manchester School, Free Trade and Starbucks… At times, but rarely, I have mixed emotions about Letting Markets Solve Everything. I used to joke that I would return to […]
June 18, 2006February 27, 2025Uncategorized Troutbeck, Windermere, Cumbria, England We live in a world that never sleeps, and now it combines the ancient with the digital. I left Manchester three days […]
June 13, 2006February 27, 2025Uncategorized Manchester, England Later today I leave for Chicago, then to Manchester, England for a couple of days, and finally for points further north and […]
June 10, 2006February 27, 2025Uncategorized Real Elitism: Toward Building A Client-Centric Culture. In a couple of years, your clients won’t care, and it may even backfire. Don’t get me wrong. Those two 28-year-old ex-Supreme […]
June 9, 2006February 27, 2025Uncategorized Think about value first–and pricing alternatives second. What about a “Chief Value Officer”? So we’re back to the subject of King Billable Hour and whether lawyers can devise efficient […]
June 8, 2006February 27, 2025Uncategorized Dan Harris, China Law Blog and China Business. For years our firm has acted for clients in the Americas and Europe–but only recently in Asian markets and China, where we […]
June 3, 2006February 27, 2025Uncategorized …and the Times of London has a legal weblog. We learn from Point of Law and Robert Ambrogi that the Times of London–the Murdoch publication which announced plans to enter the […]
June 3, 2006February 27, 2025Uncategorized Special Saturday Glimpse into the Eternally Serious Swiss… Click here. Since we are talking in European stereotypes here, note that this tragedy occurred in traditional, old-fashioned Vienna, Austria. Our thanks […]
June 2, 2006February 27, 2025Uncategorized South African Legal Weblogs? And we know you are out there. A South African commercial litigator, Paul Jacobson, just let us know about his blog. If […]
June 1, 2006February 27, 2025Uncategorized The Wonder of Repeat Business – Part 2 Tom Kane at The Legal Marketing Blog has yet another great article on marketing to existing clients–one of my favorite WAC? subjects–and […]