Month: November 2006

Remember Ernie from Glen Burnie and his story about the 1836 Virginia document? Tonight I met with EFGB at the Old Ebbitt […]

Law is the ultimate backstage pass. There are more students in law schools than there are lawyers walking the Earth. –John Milton/Satan […]

My trip tomorrow back to old haunts and new projects in DC reminds me that my friend and Washington, D.C. colleague Mark […]

From the Congressional Quarterly Weekly, here’s “The ’08 Race for the White House Begins“, by Craig Crawford. Twenty-six candidates.

7/21/06 video clip. This is America, where all viewpoints are considered. So should The Kid from Brooklyn testify before U.S. Senate Armed […]

From Britain’s Justin Patten at Human Law, see “If 40% of lawyers are not happy with their career choice do you expect […]

See Jim Hassett’s two most recent posts at Legal Business Development.

See “China’s Reaction to The Democrats Taking Congress” by Travis Hodgkins of Transnational Law Blog.

WAC? is defense-oriented and written by leading heterosexuals so this interested us. “Why Do Defendants Always Mount a ‘Vigorous’ Defense?” Peter Lattman […]

From the the always excellent Clients section of the Canadian Bar Association’s Practice Link, it’s here, an article by Janice Mucalov. No. […]

See this week’s Blawg Review hosted by Rick Hasen of Loyola Law School at Election Law. BR No. 83 features an especially […]

I like American rivertowns: Cincinnati, Louisville, Evansville, Memphis, St. Louis. I spent a good portion of my life in and out of […]

Perjury. Making a false statement or lying under oath is not necessarily perjury. In the U.S., a perjury conviction requires proving that […]

Still looking for the lay of the land on this and there does appear to be some movement toward since 1998, when […]

The Kid From Brooklyn in his November 10 video.

We’ve mentioned declarations in lieu of affidavits before. In 1976 Congress passed a barely-noticed housekeeping addition to Title 28, the U.S. Code […]

Busy as I am defending corporate America and European companies from the forces of darkness and dumbness, traveling around the U.S. and […]

From the Atlantic Review, a news digest edited by three German Fulbright alumni now in Berlin, Hamburg and Shanghai, here is “German […]

Start by tuning into www.imthereforyoubaby.com and The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Galaxy–with our friends Barbara Bry and Neil Senturia–tomorrow, Saturday, at 1-2 pm […]

Our firm’s longstanding international business law group, the IBLC, has four new members. In Algiers, Algeria: Bouchaib Law Firm; in Belize City, […]

See “The Vast Chinese Archive of Unexecuted Judgments” at Rich Kuslan’s Asia Business Intelligence.

From one of the smartest law practice management sites, which should be on your short list if you read just a few […]

What About Clients? supports most litigation, tort or judicial reforms which would curtail or eliminate “junk” science, junk cases, junk judges, you […]

From the standpoint of both the client and its trial lawyer, Rule 36 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, “Requests for […]

Note What About Clients? Rule Six: When You Work, You Are Marketing. And then read from the ABA’s LPM Section’s Law Practice […]

The goal of the “What About Clients?” 12 Rules is outrageous client service–but the 12 Rules’ way of getting there is to […]

If you haven’t seen it before, see Legal Resources in the UK and Ireland, by Delia Venables. This is a mainstay and […]

Here’s “Do You Consider Yourself a Salesperson?” by Tom Kane over at his blog, the consistently fine LegalMarketingBlog.com.

Charon QC, who like WAC? is un-PC and risks becoming an ‘R’, has reminded us that tonight is Guy Fawkes and Bonfire […]

Why I could care less if someone wants to dress up for Halloween as Osama Bin Laden, call flight attendants “stews”, date […]