Overheard in Santa Monica: Club Ned.
“Honey, just wear a black turtleneck–even Ned Beatty looks good in a black turtleneck.” Club Ned: Beatty considering Georgia fishing float-trip with […]
Month: May 2009
Saturday’s Charon
London’s Bits and Bites of America. It’s Saturday in Anytown, America, in almost-June. Shopping. First, the Food Lion. Then Costco. Maybe Wal-Mart. […]
Breaking news: GeekLawyer sued, finally.
The Romans at Teutoburg Forest, the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, the Oscar Wilde trial, the death of Bambi’s mother. And now this. We […]
Revisiting Pay- to-Learn.
They’re picking up prisoners, and putting them in a pen And all she wants to do is dance. Fixed fee, hourly fee, […]
Diversions
Ah, but it is hard to find this track of the divine in the midst of this life we lead… Hermann Hesse, […]
But, Olympia, is there an even better qualified “Not-Woman”?
Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, a moderate Republican, congratulated Obama for “nominating a well qualified woman.” WSJ: “Senate GOP Reaction Guarded To Sotomayor […]
The Greatest American Lawyer: Out With His Posse.
A glimpse into Traverse City’s small but colorful underground. See “I Could Be an Idiot, but You Would Never Know It Because […]
Graduating in the time of down-markets.
Canada as light years ahead. See “Graduating Into A Recession” at Jordan Furlong’s Law21. And see the always-superior and client-centric CBA Practice […]
Clients and customers.
All we know so far on keeping them is here. No, we’re not experts. But we think about clients, and our clients’ […]
La Vie Parisienne: Spring 2009 in the U.S.
In the middle of a recession, Americans live in a nation where work slowly goes out of style, European statism is at […]
Holden Oliver (2007-2009): Done, out, onward.
As planned, and dreaded, “old” law student Holden Oliver, a WAC? co-blogger, is leaving us. He graduates, takes a bar exam, and […]
Holden Oliver (2007-2009)
Good luck, sir.
A Get-A-Life Conference? For lawyers? Now? Get the net.
How about give blood instead? Say it ain’t so, Chicago. You want work-life balance ? Teach. Sell shoes. Listen to lots of […]
Slackoisie-Fest: Fighting Loser-ism in the Workplace.
Listen, you creeps, you screwheads. Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the […]
The client’s stock price this week?
The client, it seems, actually wants you to know him, her or it. Take time out to learn the stock price, industry, […]
The world’s best banks?
You’re kidding, right? Tough one. “Trying to work out which banks are the world’s best is a bit like awarding the prize […]
Towards a reinvented Martindale-Hubbell?
Martindale-Hubbell also represents many other solutions that help law firms establish…a full range of marketing and client development services. One of our […]
Discovery: The Miracle of Rule 56(f), Fed. R. Civ. P.
(f) When Affidavits Are Unavailable. If a party opposing the motion shows by affidavit that, for specified reasons, it cannot present facts […]
Trademarks: Drink like a Russian.
UPDATED: The right to know what befuddles you. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit clarified the “materiality” prong of […]
Boron oxide is damn sexy.
Always describe your sex toys in great detail–no matter how embarrassing. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a […]
International banking does a self-audit.
Banking as the industry that failed. See this week’s The Economist and “Rebuilding the Banks“. Excerpts: There is still great uncertainty about […]
Redux: Martindale-Hubbell: Should we all “just say no”?
From an August 8, 2009 post. Martindale-Hubbell is still “no joke”. We would all miss M-H–from the ratings process to the familiar […]
Return of Roxana: The Document Review
More “Notes from the Breadline” at Above The Law. Roxana gets a part-time gig: Clearly, I have joined an effort that is […]
Are there any more out there like you, sir?
I don’t get this tension between doing your job and enjoying your life. Geez!, if you don’t enjoy practicing law, find another […]
Always being born in Chicago.
You change everything, all the time, to stay in the game. You keep going to the Well. If you’re a lawyer, in […]
The Scramble for Value.
Susan Hackett, general counsel of the ACC, says the new approach to value is necessary because law firms had become so expensive […]
Simple Priorities: Clients First, Lawyers Second.
We work hard, play hard, enjoy life to its fullest. We just don’t do so at the expense of the people who […]