Month: November 2007

“Hey, kid. This document, that contract, your proposed cross-examination–it isn’t good. Not even close. It isn’t good work, and it was never […]

Steve Jobs: “We have better stuff!” Bill Gates: “You don’t get it. That doesn’t matter.” –1984 conversation, after an angry Jobs realized […]

Boston’s Paul Clifford is a fine business lawyer and consultant who I and other members of Hull McGuire have known for about […]

This is one of WAC?‘s most clicked-on posts. But the investigative and archeological credit belongs to a vigilant D.C. securities lawyer known […]

Peter Black at Freedom to Differ (an Australian blawg) hosts Blawg Review #136.

Ah, devil details: the discipline of getting organized, staying that way, and making things happen on schedule at work. At WAC? we’ve […]

Helmut Schmidt, the former German chancellor (1974-82) and U.S. arms ally against the former Soviet Union in Cold War days, raised eyebrows […]

Midwest-raised WAC? is quite patriotic–as American as apple pie, baseball, moral pretension and land grabs. And even though patriotism has limitations as […]

What can a poor boy do, except to sing…? –M. Jagger/K. Richards, Beggars Banquet, 1968 AD

That question keeps coming up. The young Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville thought 170 years ago that the answer is yes. He wrote […]

AP: The famous chestnut tree, over 150 years old, wins another stay from Judge Bade. Amsterdam city officials must present more detailed […]

The price of admission has changed. “No Net New Greenhouse Gases” should begin today. –John Reaves See in last week’s San Diego […]

No matter what you think of columnist George F. Will–someone once called George America’s best 19th-century mind–he’s a smart guy, and an […]

How can you walk into a courtroom and address a judge as ‘My lord’ if he has taken an oath to a […]

Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Maybe, maybe not. WAC? could […]

Today is Equal Opportunity Day in the U.S., and Part 1 of Blawg Review #135 is hosted by Transgender Workplace Diversity. Part […]

How do scientists–and dinosaurs–resolve their disputes, anyway? Hear an interview with Kevin Padian, curator of University of California””Berkeley’s Museum of Paleontology. It’s […]

This happened Saturday afternoon. WAC? even sent its secret resident stringer to this limited-seating event at the Wadsworth Theater in West Los […]

You sure can. And some good trial lawyers we know are making that mistake right now. Remember the idea is to tell […]

Being a Very-Minor-Almost-Imperceptible-Celebrity, I sometimes get to hang out with Very-Major-Totally-Obvious-Celebrities… Chris Abraham, in a post at Because the Medium is the […]

Give her credit when it’s due. In last night’s Gang War in Las Vegas, HRC does well fending attack from Dem candidates. […]

Being a Very-Minor-Almost-Imperceptible-Celebrity, I sometimes get to hang out with Very-Major-Totally-Obvious-Celebrities… Chris Abraham, in a post at Because the Medium is the […]

Last week’s override of the President’s veto marks the 107th time in U.S. history that Congress has taken such action–but the first […]

Don’t mean to put pressure on y’all. But if you traditionally send holiday cards or throw a party, consider sending Thanksgiving cards […]

The urbane and refreshing Londoner Charon QC is in top form. See “Europhile Top Shelf”¦and Downing Street Matters” and his Saturday review […]

WAC? has supported dismantling in all states of the popular election of all judges and replacing it with a federal judiciary-like merit […]

Warren Buffett backs the estate tax in testimony before U.S. Senate Finance Committee. See coverage of yesterday’s hearings at WSJ and TaxProf […]

And here is Jim Hassett’s answer: Me too. But we can’t. Teaching people how to close deals faster is a little like […]