Month: September 2008
THE List of Global Arbitration Centers.
Courtesy of the excellent and always-understated China Law Blog, and particularly of Los Angeles lawyer Constance Kim, here’s a gem your clients […]
The World’s Markets: Grim.
The headline and Andrew Clark’s reporting in London’s The Guardian are representative: Panic Grips World’s Markets; Shock as American Rescue Plan Rejected. […]
America needs GeekLawyer right now. But Is he dead?
No posts from the bad barrister in 10 days. Drugs? Alcohol? Working?
Citigroup buys Wachovia’s banking units.
For $2.2 billion. Another Black September sideshow and detail–but a fair one for Wachovia shareholders. See New York Times.
LinkedIn and Xing as “Facebook for Suits.”
This week’s The Economist: there are now 35 million members between LinkedIn and Xing. WAC? and some HMPC lawyers were early joiners. […]
All IP, All Week: Blawg Review #179
See Blawg Review #179 at Securing Innovation. One of the better BRs this year. Query: Did the U.S. Constitution’s framers regard patents […]
Is Obama too wimpy to be President of the United States?
For over two decades, I’ve worked for and raised money for both national Republican and Democratic officeholders and candidates. And I’ve always […]
I.M. Pei gets more scandalous in Paris?
First the Louvre, now this. Where will it end? See Le Blagueur à Paris.
Ease-of-Use Awards for Services?
In 2004, services sold alone or as support features to the sale of goods and products accounted for over 65% of the […]
McCain v. Obama debates = a boring draw.
What a choice. Yawn. Old-Maverick-Populist-Soldier versus Jimmy-Carter-With-Harvard-Law-Degree. WAC? can name about 36 white guys off the top of his head who live […]
Report: Last night’s “Right-to-work-real-hard” rally in Detroit.
Bring us your Beethovens, your Ted Turners, your Wayne Kramers…
“Okay, okay, I’ll handle that one. Once again, what’s a Kazakhstan?” Mark Wilson/Getty Images
FDIC seizes, and starts selling, Washington Mutual.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. sells most of WaMu to JPMorgan Chase & Co. See Bloomberg, WSJ, New York Times. Meanwhile, on […]
Simple Justice for Clients and Customers?
Did you have the stones to fire this man? When a young person has no clue what to do with his life […]
America, world markets, and presidential politics.
The president’s address last night of 9:00 PM ET is here. An embarrassed Congress is expected to finalize its $700 billion attempted […]
Jim Hassett: More on the down economy–and what to do.
Like Tom Kane, Boston’s Jim Hassett can tell you how to think about marketing and client retention in good or bad times. […]
Frank Zappa on the American Elected Judiciary.
Real American states don’t elect judges; they appoint them.
U.S. Justice Department investigates 26 large lenders.
The Associated Press reports that Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers Holdings, AIG and Countrywide Financial (recently bought by Bank of America) […]
Client service in a bad economy.
See Axel Meierhoefer’s June post “What’s the best customer service during a recession?” at his Leadership and Talent Development for Smart People.
Bubba, and once again, you busy?
WANTED STILL: Of counsel for growing, innovative Pennsylvania-based boutique business law firm with branches in California and DC. You must have at […]
New Senate bill targets global IP theft.
See Patent Baristas, by Cincinnati-based Stephen Albainy-Jenei, on the International IP Protection and Enforcement Act of 2008 (S. 3464).
American Crime: 316 years of getting it right?
Today is the autumnal equinox. And September 22, 1692 was the date the last people were hanged for witchcraft in North America. […]
Sounds 50% good to us.
It’s no secret that most–maybe over 90%–of the employee suits filed against business clients are legally meritless; and to WAC? they seem […]