Month: April 2008

Client interviews (or audits) by a ‘third person’ is a long-time favorite WAC? subject–and our recommendation to all law firms. At least […]

See post by John Phillips on the Supreme Court’s March 25 decision in Hall Street Associates v. Mattel, Inc. Phillips excerpt: “The […]

David Harlow hosts this week’s Blawg Review #154 at HealthBlawg.

NYT: “In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop“.

No, but we Yanks could spruce up our image a bit. See the Berlin-based press digest Atlantic Review, its piece “European Love […]

See Part 4 of Jim’s “The most important trends in legal business development“.

AP: “Stocks rise despite gloomy jobs report“. In March, 80,000 jobs were lost.

Hear the latest IDN interview, No. 21, “AAA’s Richard Naimark: Is International Arbitration Growing?”.

Via one Andrew Johnston, a real journalist in Chicago. WAC? values people who can put sentences together and walk at the same […]

See “Will It Fly?” in The Economist.

Bird pron. “beud” (London); “burd” (Scotland) n. woman. See The English-to-American Dictionary. They include Law Minx, Legally Blonde in London, Law Girl […]

Like work-life balance, lawyer “professionalism” as touted and practiced in the U.S. is an anti-client, lawyer-centric ruse which needs to die before […]

A year ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court in Massachusetts et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency et al. ruled that carbon dioxide […]

Published on March 14, a new final U.S. EPA rule on air emissions from locomotive and marine diesel engines is designed to […]

See NYC trial lawyer-thinker (you don’t always see both in one human) Eric Turkewitz’s piece Punitive Damages: Why America is Different than […]

From both regulatory and remedial standpoints, it’s hard to make mercury go away. See at Environmental Protection magazine “Mercury Spill Control 101” […]

Why “try to exceed expectations” when the overall lawyer standard is rightly perceived as laughably low to mediocre?

WAC? co-writer and third year law student Holden Oliver died in Palo Alto Monday while visiting his girlfriend, an undergraduate student at […]