Dog days: Hot, with increasing Chaos later this week.
And the dogs grew mad. If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, and usually feel a little weird this time of year, […]
Month: July 2008
Radio Free Paris, Part 1 of 2: The ICC’s International Court of Arbitration
On July 11, in-house GE lawyer Mike McIlwrath interviewed Senior Case Worker Francesca Mazza at the Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce’s International […]
Global ADR: New UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules
Yesterday was the day the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law revised the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules.The Rules, dating back to 1976, […]
Music for dog days.
Frank Vincent Zappa (1940-1993)
Blawg Review #168: Wild, Wonderful, BTU-Packed, Literate.
Charleston’s Jeff Mehalic of West Virginia Business Litigation, and a citizen of America’s best-kept energy secret, gave us a Bastille Day Blawg […]
NYC Generic Wake-up Post
New York is cold and damp.
Hubris, Muprhy’s Law, and real life.
Ah how shameless”“the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone, they say, come all their miseries, yes, but they themselves […]
Hermann the German: The “new” American Embassy
“Alcatraz reopens in Berlin“. The Embassy Germans love to hate.
The New Yorker is different from you and me, Ernest.
Even though I’m a native of Washington, D.C., which I love, I know The Truth: New York City is the coolest place […]
Oil drilling ban: Do something.
AP: “Bush to lift offshore drilling ban“. The White House is a bit late. Congress is flatfooted. Burning daylight here, guys. We […]
Quatorze Juillet
China: Corruption by the Numbers.
I have been living in or doing business with corrupt countries for over thirty years and one of the things I have […]
How the Marquis de Sade was finally forced into politics.
And the moral of the story is never lean on the weird. Or they will chop your head off. Take my word […]
Chicago dancing
Well, I heard about the fella’ you been dancin’ with/All over the neighborhhood…. From Les Blues Brothers (1980), John Landis, Director
“Reading is sexier in Paris”
See The Paris Blog which is running some of the series “Why Paris?” by Laura Elkin at her Maitresse: I hereby call […]
Minor Wisdom
Ray Ward, of Minor Wisdom and the (new) legal writer What About Paris? is the weekend edition of WAC? It lets us […]
Writing well
He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement is a wise man. Euripides, non-lawyer (480-406 B.C.)
Quick question.
“I just finished the Vanity Fair piece. Can I spend a couple of weeks with you, Bing and the guy with the […]
London’s Charon QC interviews What About Clients?
On Tuesday, Charon QC, London’s velvet-voiced legal toastmaster, interviewed an early-rising Dan Hull in California for Charon’s podcast series. Dan drank coffee, […]
Jim Hassett: Protecting relationships.
Another client-focused blog which, like Tom Kane’s, consistently transcends the group-hugs-and-Kumbaya marketing sites out there is Jim Hassett’s Legal Business Development. There’s […]
Tom Kane: What your firm should be doing in a down economy.
Recently, Tom Kane, at his well-regarded Legal Marketing Blog, has focused on marketing during “bad times”. And whether the downturn has hit […]
The French president gets the chair.
The presidency of the European Union’s Council, the EU’s main decision-making body, rotates every six months. EU countries take turns chairing and […]
Virgin’s tough new IP piracy strategy.
From “Stop Filesharing Or We’ll Smack Your Bottom” at Ruthie’s Law: Ruthie was also hugely amused to hear four students who had […]
New Millennial Whine Anthem
Well, at least it’s a great song…. Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders, “My City Was Gone”
The law: pasts and prologues.
Law profs Mary Dudziak and and Richard Ross co-author Legal History Blog, “Scholarship, News and New Ideas in Legal History”. WAC? is […]