The Politics of Disputes: “The Mediator’s Handbook”
On September 5, General Electric’s Mike McIlwrath interviewed Jenny Beer, co-author of The Mediator’s Handbook, in his weekly radio show at The […]
Month: September 2008
LawBlog 2008: Monday, September 15, 2008, London, The Harp.
The 2nd annual Brit blogger/IP summit and Extreme Reveling Fest is now just 6 days away: 48 Chandos Place at 6 PM. […]
Two Ways of the Trial Notebook
A quick one from the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, where there are Old Ones and Young Ones in their dark Monday suits. Men […]
Blawg Review sobers up, gets literate.
Blawg Review, hosted by Hanna Hasl-Kelchner of legalliteracy.com, honors International Literacy Day, which is today. #176. Last week, Jamie Spencer of Austin […]
Recap: “Should associates pay their law firms in the first 2 to 3 years?”
Two first years relax after a day of thinking, researching, writing, cite-checking and proofreading, as more senior lawyers stay late to re-do […]
Don’t popularly elect judges. It’s bad.
Even if all elected judges were honest, judicial elections naturally erode public confidence because they imply that judges have “constituents” (i.e., the […]
Legal OnRamp
According to Webster, an onramp is “a ramp by which one enters a limited-access highway.” The new web-based lawyer network, Legal OnRamp, […]
Five good non-law blogs:
Paris Parfait, Tara Bradford, Paris Observing Herman, Hermann the German, Berlin The Paris Blog, Paris My Marrakesh, Marymam, Morocco The Huffington Post […]
Recap: “Should associates pay their law firms in the first 2 to 3 years?”
Quick and dirty (but not outright defrauding anyone) in Amsterdam airport: Re: our recent post on who benefits and do does not–which […]
Recap: “Should associates pay their law firms in the first 2 to 3 years?”
Two first years relax after a day of thinking, researching, writing, cite-checking and proofreading, as more senior lawyers stay late to re-do […]
Kent to Zürich–and Zürich answers.
I took two days off in Kent with London lawyers, and near Albion’s white cliffs, in part to recover from my Monday […]
Rule Two: The Client Is The Main Event
The second in our series The 12 Rules of Client Service. Rule Two is here from November, 2005.
Man of Kent, or a Kentish Man?
As with London, and with the County of Suffolk to the north, from where my mother’s family came to Massachusetts via Ipswich […]
Sensitive Litigation Moment #29: Modifying Discovery
Often ignored, Federal Rule 29 lets the parties modify their discovery procedure unless the court says otherwise. Court approval is always needed, […]
The GOP’s other Storm: Sarah Palin
Sin in Alaska. John McCain has got Big Ones picking her. And she’s a robo-babe. Bravo. But often-conservative WAC? thinks her 17-year-old […]
An old London labour: law student as critic, lover.
At Bayswater Road, near Westbourne Gate, not far from Notting Hill, it’s not American Labor Day. Brits are working. Me, too. We […]