Month: June 2008

Sarbanes-Oxley, useful but criticized for being a bit overdone and in need of tweaking, inches toward its 6th birthday on July 30. […]

….no way in the world I’m going out that front door….

From the FT piece: UK: The most analysed and debated governance environment anywhere. The unitary board model survives, but since the recommendations […]

More from last month’s Financial Times piece on boards globally. Hull McGuire has extensive experience with German companies, and the kind of […]

South Korea is a “global partner” but Japan and Australia are “allies”. See at Korea Law a June 10 piece by Seoul-based […]

The big question for Blawg Review readers next week is Geeklawyer to run rampage through the next Blawg Review? A relatively tame […]

Making sense in Chicago. Read Patrick Lamb’s “Email Free Fridays” to strengthen client relationships at In Search of Perfect Client Service. And […]

See Axel Meierhoefer’s post “What’s the best customer service during a recession?” at his Leadership and Talent Development for Smart People.

More Europeans. Dang. This week’s host of Blawg Review hails from the European nation Yanks (and Brits, for that matter) like to […]

In juries, mock juries, focus groups and polls, Americans and other humans are complicated, and hard to know. See Anne Reed’s new […]

Speaking of American growing pains, see in Salon Erin Aubry Kaplan’s piece “Who’s Afraid Of Michelle Obama?“. Excerpt: What would a country […]

Rule Eight from WAC?’s 12 Rules.

For the glorification of the risk-bearer. China Law Blog in “Is China Going Green? Part XV” comments on “Government Targets Land Pollution […]

One seriously funny, angry American-Irish guy from the City who always made us think. An original. See Washington Post obit.

See at Deliberations Anne Reed’s new article, “Ready For Anything“. It features: the late Irving Younger (a Williams & Connolly standout who […]

We have a football team? Get out… –Overheard in Deryl Hart reading room, or maybe Ivy Room, long ago. Above The Law: […]

Lauren Elkin at The Paris Blog and Maitresse has this one from June 20: Controversy is brewing in France this week over […]

Rome. I don’t like working here–charitably put, work-life balance is totally out of balance in some regions of Italy–but I love being […]

This is not the East Village or Paris; you can’t yell, swear, dance on sidewalks or openly admire a woman’s walk without […]

In a nation where energy prices are controlled, that’s a big deal. At Tim Johnson’s China Rises blog (McClatchy Newpapers), see “Paying […]

June 17 (Bloomberg)–The rising Mississippi River is threatening to inundate cities along more than 300 miles of the nation’s main commercial waterway […]

“From Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls”

MSNBC: CEO pay climbs higher despite slow economy. So should we call up the National Guard? Tom Brokaw was right years ago […]

Joyce Walks. Courtesy of the cosmopolitan, well-traveled (just ask Ruthie) and well-read Ed. of Blawg Review, take a walk on Bloomsday. Try […]

Dublin’s Dr. Eoin O’Dell at certa.ie turns in a most Irish and therefore literary Blawg Review #164. “…I was a Flower of […]