Month: April 2007

Writing to clients is as important a thing that you do as a lawyer. Don’t waste their time with long-winded lawyer-speak, which […]

See this New York Times obit, which is fair and pretty comprehensive. To me, Jack Valenti was not just the Motion Picture […]

Rule Eight: Think Like The Client–Help Control Costs. (See the first 7 rules 1-6 here and 7 here). Ask any associate lawyer […]

What Each Timekeeper On A Project Should Know. Knowing what the client is paying your firm informs and affects the strategy of […]

Air pollutants released at one location–especially those released through smokestacks–can travel long distances and affect air quality hundreds of miles away. Before […]

Israel turned 59 today. Starting last night, and in cities all over the world, the anniversary of Israel’s independence has been observed […]

Blogging is still young. WAC? has made no secret of the fact that we think the jury is out on “whether blogs […]

Craig Williams, the California lawyer who writes the well-regarded May It Please The Court, sometimes blogs from abroad. During late March through […]

Halberstam, a New Yorker, Yankee’s Yankee and Pulitzer Prize winner at the age of 30 for war reporting, was killed in a […]

Here, from Asia Business Intelligence, by American lawyer and Asia business consultant Rich Kuslan. Kuslan’s post is inspired by an article by […]

Canada, as you can see by scrolling down the left-hand side of this blog, has more than a few fine blawgs. The […]

Who says lawyers, law professors and businessmen in the US and the UK must be boring, artless and uninspired? Long ago my […]

Again, do read and save this must-see post at Tom Collins’s consistently useful More Partner Income. Last year, WAC? published some shorter […]

What if the services sector competed for clients on the basis of “ease-of-use”? Develop and apply ease-of-use concepts to pure services? Our […]

We once briefly engaged for litigation a local counsel who focused more on preserving personal relationships with local lawyers than on going […]

Only a handful of writers have been able to capture the pleasures and pitfalls of breaking bread in their age–of, say, just […]

My firm loves business litigation and trials–and prefers defendants. But some of our clients need to sue. Our rule #1 of litigation […]

That article is here, by Dan Harris at his prolific and truly great China Law Blog, subtitled “China Law for Business”. Sometimes […]

I was gambling in Havana/I took a little risk. Send lawyers, guns and money/Dad get me out of this. (W.Zevon) Here, from […]

Do see Blawg Review this week and Jon Frieden’s #103. Occasionally patriotic, WAC? loves baseball, our national sport. Like the law profession […]

If you are one of the many Europeans on holiday right now in Florida, and want to see two different American cultures […]

1. Services, and relationships–with or without products and goods–are becoming the main event globally. Whether you work for an international business law […]

“We tried a monarchy once,” Chuck Hagel (Nebraska-R) said recently. “It’s not suited to America.” See in London’s The Economist the article […]

American and European lawyer-bloggers have written a lot lately about “work-life balance“. In the event any of you bloggers have good corporate […]

… is up at George Wallace’s Declarations and Exclusions. Be sure to check out BR #102, and the April Fool’s Blawg Review […]