Month: October 2006

Do we lawyers know how to get things done, done right and done on time? Do we even value that? I wonder. […]

It’s Sunday, near the end of October. This week offers us all a series of ancient harvest and life-death cycle observances with […]

From Arnie Herz at Legal Sanity, see “The Next Wave of Legal Sanity“, and learn about LH Wordsmith. This is Lori Herz’s […]

Before getting knee-deep into private practice, WAC? worked twice–on both Senate and House sides for, respectively, a ‘D’ and then an ‘R’–at […]

My friend Pat Lamb of In Search of Perfect Client Service made me aware of Hill & Knowlton’s blog Client Service Insights. […]

It’s the Mediator vBlog Project –a blogging first, and it has mediators Diane Levin of Boston and Geoff Sharp of Wellington, New […]

Coming soon. Bad lawsuits encourage lying under oath during discovery. WAC? will get to this one soon. In the meantime, see one […]

Los Angeles, NYC, Boston? DC, Seattle? From Adam Smith, Esq. (Bruce MacEwen), see “Is Your Firm Where ‘The Brains’ Are?”, inspired by […]

Apart from items required for a few bad habits, I like very old paintings, sketches and maps. Especially old maps (more affordable)–so […]

He’s holding forth right now at Blawg Review #80, and even WAC? is intimidated. Kingsfield has called on an absent Mr. Hull, […]

Here’s a great practical post I almost missed but quite a few others noticed. It’s by Blawg Review mainstay Colin Samuels at […]

On a book/film project, and as a respite from contentious IP and environmental disputes back East, I’m likely headed to Amsterdam, a […]

From Seattle-based Dan Harris’s China Law Blog, here is “Doing Business In China: The Basics Of The Basics“.

Speaking of KFB, political incorrectness, wild men, anti-weenies and just saying it, from Salon, here’s an interesting piece about Edward Abbey, “Where […]

Saturday is a particularly good day to visit my friend Charon QC. Here’s a Brit who works harder than most of us […]

My firm takes lots of depositions–you know, the proceeding with a court reporter but no judge–virtually always in federal court cases where […]

It’s here. See his website. Hear his other podcasts. Forget about his language. KFB, or Big Mike, provides a service. He is […]

That’s from Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisted, which Johnny Winter also did–but without that weird police siren. How are GCs really finding […]

[Note on 3/8/07: Life at the Bar by Julie Brown was a fabulous blog in October and its a fabulous blog now. […]

Like many other corporate lawyers and bloggers, when my friend Chicago trial lawyer Patrick Lamb of In Search Of Perfect Client Service […]

The top 30 are here, courtesy of UC Law’s Paul Caron at his respected Tax Prof Blog. Caron collects some of the […]

On October 8, President Bush signed into law H.R. 683, the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006. The new law overturns the […]

Life’s short, and diplomacy is over-used/abused. Sometimes we just need to say what we really mean. So if you’re not working for […]

Kevin Heller’s Tech Law Advisor hosts Blawg Review #79. This is a fine collection of the best recent blawg posts in the […]

When I was a young associate lawyer in DC, I didn’t have a life, and my wife eventually evacuated from our house […]

Later this Fall on ABC watch for the elegant Ellen Bry to play a judge in two episodes of Boston Legal. Ellen […]

From Justin Patten’s Human Law, here is “The Shift In Power From The Big To The Small Firm“, collecting other good posts. […]