Reality as newsworthy: MBA sufferings in America.
Nobody’s seen the MBA trouble I’ve seen. The Economist: Kellogg Serial: Five MBA students face up to the economic realities. All together […]
Month: April 2009
You think?
WSJ Law Blog: Recession Advice to Associates: Keep Your Head Down and Work.
Once a century, if that.
The banking crisis in Europe. How often do you hear any European say that Yanks don’t have a monopoly on global cluelessness? […]
The IMF and World Bank were super-noisy this week.
Is this play money like in Monopoly? First, earlier this week, The International Monetary Fund, as it prepared to have its annual […]
Real lawyers practice law. Blogging comes second
We got a profession for you right here. See Scott Greenfield’s piece “Waiting For The Checks To Roll In“, commenting on a […]
Hey, dirtbag, watch your clients’ money like it’s yours.
Yeah, that’s the ticket. The client seems to like your firm–and, importantly, you like the client. You want more. But suddenly the […]
Is Obama making some Americans go nuts?
Brit wits want to know. Whatever the ailment, it must be dicier than jetlag, and more contagious. We’ve noticed it, too. On […]
Blawg Review by two lawyer-journalists.
Query: What if H.L Mencken had been a lawyer, too? Since October 2008, I’ve been working and traveling more than I would […]
Don’t bogart that TIME Magazine, my friend.
Bong Hits for Henry Luce? You and I cannot write this kind of thing, Ernest. TIME columnist and novelist Joe Klein, who […]
The Score: Outside counsel down; GCs up–and way ahead of us.
Optimists that we are, WAC? “likes” the late-2008 recession, and current down-economy, because it should accelerate needed changes in the profession: everything […]
Blawg Reviews by Two Masters
Since October 2008, I’ve been both working and traveling more than I would have expected. Family, clients and our law firm come […]
Building a Better Brand Morgue
Remember back in the day that store called Circuit City? It’s hardly a notion that at first blush makes you bounce out […]
Good enough, smart enough, tough enough.
Stuart saves Minnesota? And patient enough. “Senator Franken” still sounds, well, funny–but we’ll take him even though there have been far less […]
Breaking news: $90 is too much for pay for torn jeans.
News of the Revolution. And $300 and hour is too much to pay for a first year associate to read documents–if not […]
Beavis, just tell them: “No pro bono–no Beavis”.
Reformation of the evils of BigLaw is a wonderful thing…. [The] evil [is] to the clients who pay for useless hours by […]
Comrade Kim gets re-elected.
New York Times: “Unopposed, Kim Jong-Il Takes Third Term“. Taking measure of running-dog lackeys of imperialist West.
Query: How many law students does it take to read a newspaper?
Clueless in America. When WAC? was just 25-years-old, he was already a brilliant securities lawyer, independently wealthy, and a leading expert on: […]
Obama in Europe: More than Kennedy-lite.
WAC? is wrong about many things–and was wrong to suggest five months ago that Barack Obama was not ready for prime time […]
Desperately Seeking Value For Clients.
Four ‘down-economy’ questions: 1. After the economy stabilizes, “should associates pay their law firms in the first two to three years?” 2. […]
Arbitration: Faster, cheaper, interminable. Business executives expect arbitration to finish much faster than their lawyers do. Not surprising. What is surprising is […]
Celestial: Declarations and Exclusions
We worked hard this week–but did one mandatory non-billable thing. We visited, read and listened to George Wallace‘s Blawg Review #205, and […]
Keeping Clients: “Do we really need a memo on that?”
Maybe go to the mirror and practice saying that to your client. Another way to say it: You know, Elizabeth, this project […]
The G-20 summit: Venus considers Mars.
It’s no surprise that European caution versus U.S. drive toward stimulus strategies is the main theme of President Obama’s eight-day trip. The […]
Holden H. Oliver (1968-2009)
WAC? co-writer, former reporter and third-year law student Holden Oliver died Tuesday in Palo Alto at Stanford University Medical Center. A Boston […]