Month: December 2006

Gerald Ford (1913-2006) Ford was Everyman’s U.S. president, a straight shooter and Dan Hull’s Representative when he was a kid in Grand […]

“Early in the morning/Can’t get a ride/Had a little time/With my baby last night/Early in the morning/Gotta do the walk…” A South […]

WAC?‘s mixed travel marathon of work, family, friends and meetings–featuring (a) the worst possible and even depraved customer service by Delta Air […]

The 2006 awards are here, presented in a guest shot by Santa, who may had have the munchies, or something. (If you […]

Well, I was during about half my youth–and eventually ran away to join the circus in Washington, DC. And I’m in Cincy […]

Maybe it’s just the holiday season (in which most years I love), the winter solstice, an early appreciation of Charles Dickens, or […]

It’s in the Atlantic Review, a Berlin-based digest on transatlantic affairs, and based on excerpts from articles in The Economist, other sources.

See Michelle Golden’s post “Visit Your Clients“.

There are lots of suggestions out there on standards, guidelines and take-aways for year-end associate reviews. Two are (a) letting staff evaluate […]

With apologies to Clement Clarke Moore. From Singapore Law Blog: “Whereas, on or about the night prior to Christmas, there did occur […]

1. Republicans: Bring back Don Rumsfeld. He’s enormously talented, a national treasure, maybe indispensable. He’s not evil, or a knee-jerk partisan; he […]

Query: Does anyone know a reputable and skilled business book agent with even the crudest of: manners, organizational skills, and instinct for […]

Who has ever argued with Music and won? Well, the moment of truth has finally come, at David Harlow’s HealthBlawg. Welcome to […]

Tom Kane at Legal Marketing Blog is reading WAC?‘s mind these days–and gives a suggestion which my firm will institute at the […]

…is up at Legal Literacy. Do see this one.

“I’m There for you Baby“, hosted by WAC? friends Neil Senturia and Barbara Bry, airs from 1-2 p.m., West Coast time on […]

She is actress, producer, writer, Renaissance babe, mom, ex-stunt girl (for fun, Google her name re: the Superman movies), and WAC? friend […]

The ever-growing Directory of Non-U.S. Blogs, on the lower left side of this site, recently grew by 20, with new sites from […]

Good sites on better writing for clients, lawyers and other humans can be found at The Estrin Report. Declare war on “aforesaid”, […]

Staying in both loops, WAC? has dirtied his hands for both Ds and Rs, on Capitol Hill and in campaigns–intern, government employee, […]

This morning we found “attorney strategy meetings are useless“, at WAC?‘s Site Meter, originating from one of our favorite NYC IP firms […]

Here’s something you don’t read every day. From the Associated Press, Seminole Tribe Buying Hard Rock Cafe Business for $965 Million.

Bad service, bad buzz. As Harry Beckwith’s young son once said, “too often, service sucks”. From Jim Hassett at Legal Business Development, […]

My mother and brother were born there. As I kid, and like other Procter & Gamble children growing up in the 1960s, […]

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” C. […]

Shocking, breaking news–like Keith Richards likes drugs.

Tom Kane continues the discussion that makes lawyers squirm.

If you haven’t yet, see Balkinization, which focuses on First Amendment and individual liberty issues. Popular, and created by Yale Law professor […]