Month: May 2008

Charon QC gets a cold call from Britain’s Prime Minister in “Gordon cold calls British public”¦Hello”¦is that Charon?”¦“.

Old China Hand, fellow ex-Midwesterner and another guy who travels too much, Dan Harris of China Law Blog and Harris & Moure […]

In “Power Struggles“, London-based The Economist reports that Japan is excluding foreign investors and may be “the most closed market in the […]

From Canada’s Law Day: “Belgian copyright defence group Copiepresse has filed a court document asking for up to $77.25 million in damages […]

Americans do tend to think that the rest of the world is rather far away and not terribly important. —Delia Venables, UK […]

American traveling abroad are mouthy and often loud but at least a lot of us talk and ask questions. But we are […]

Or, Work much? About a 60 Minutes segment on Generation Y, originally aired in November and updated this past Sunday, Scott Greenfield […]

Click above to play new VP game with MSNBC’s Chuck Todd and David Gregory. Our pick and prediction is lawyer Rob Portman, […]

Listen to IDN‘s latest podcast, No. 27, “Mediating from Singapore: An Interview with Christopher Lau”. In this segment, GE’s Mike McIlwrath and […]

Stephen Albainy-Jenei at Patent Baristas is hosting this week’s Blawg Review #161 in honor of “those who have fought and died for […]

That’s Rule Four from our 12 rules of client service. Let’s not kid ourselves. Why “try to exceed expectations” when the overall […]

For 15th year in a row. AP: “Swiss survey: US maintains edge in competitiveness“. Excerpt: Asian tigers Singapore and Hong Kong ranked […]

According to Reuters: BERLIN – The United States is already in a recession and it will be longer as well as deeper […]

MSNBC: The European Union

London’s Charon QC, a man with a velvet voice, was kind enough to interview a Paris-bound WAC? last year in London near […]

The Economist asks: “Parlez-vous SMS?” France’s American-like President Nicolas Sarkozy is worried about what “text-messaging is doing to the French language”. Please […]

Patent and natural resources law may collide more. Wonderful, especially if it makes business sense. See Cincinnati’s Patent Baristas, New York’s IP […]

Proofreading may be boring. But it’s important, and part of who you are if you are in the business of turning words […]

Rising fuel and steel costs mean reduced production and profit goals. Bloomberg. The Guardian. The Detroit Free Press. AP. Good news: we’ll […]

To be Irish is to know that in the end, the world will break your heart. –Daniel Patrick Moynihan Call me a […]

Two fine posts on Gen-Y, Gen-X, Boomers: Scott Greenfield, NYC, Simple Justice, “Hull to Gen Y Lawyers: Get It or Get Out“. […]

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. –William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), poet and statesman.

Proofreading errors are avoidable, even under the gun–if you make ardor in proofreading a habit. Take invoices to clients. Invoices, if done […]

See last week’s WSJ piece “Can U Read Kant?” in which David Robinson reviews Mark Bauerlein’s new book. In The Dumbest Generation, […]

Another new record. Bloomberg: “Oil Rises Above $132 on U.S. Supply Drop, Bank Price Forecasts“. Last week, the US DOE says, supplies […]

Plus “Why Vietnam Is No Big Thing”. Read peripatetic Dan Harris at China Law Blog. And see “China Earthquake Donations“.

From a marketing e-mail I received today: Are you frustrated by young workers who feel entitled to success, need constant praise, want […]