Charon QC: Bearing gifts, as always–so take this with you to Nantucket.
Law School for Cretins? WAC? happens to know that he is traveling; we aren’t at liberty to say where. While his “anonymity” […]
Month: June 2009
Speeding the progress to useful lawyer.
Here’s one thought-out solution to the “low value-added” problem associated with starting lawyers. Over the last 18 months, other writers and commentators, […]
Bosphorus Law
See this one by Phil Hodgen at Hodgen Law Group PC, an international tax boutique. “New” by Ottoman Empire standards, the Sultan […]
Brains on purpose. Change on purpose.
And mediocrity as a choice. People will sigh and tell you “well, people just don’t change.” Well, they are wrong–and that entire […]
Down but never out in the Andes.
Many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country. —Aldous Huxley, […]
Ellen Bry: Stamford Connecticut girl makes good (again).
Some girls just love to work. Our friend Ellen Bry, a nighttime drama television mainstay (St. Elsewhere, Dexter, Boston Legal, Monk, The […]
U. S. Copyright Office: Getting the bugs out of a $52 million “process”.
“Who sold you that [expletive] and why did you buy it?” Ironically, over at the Library of Congress, a new $52 million […]
Hello. City Desk? Get me rewrite, doll. This is Juror No. 8.
And stop the presses. Here’s something you don’t see every day–but then you wonder why more jurors aren’t taken to task for […]
It hovers, takes hostages, and moves on to the next town.
“I see defeated people. They’re everywhere. They walk around like everyone else. They don’t even know they’re defeated.” It’s a choice–in your […]
The National Journal: Team Obama
The “people who run things” in the new administration are carefully collected for you in this interesting and useful article cataloguing what […]
Antitrust: Catching up with ICANN.
A complaint alleging antitrust violations against Verisign–the corporation with exclusive contracts with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to […]
Jammie Thomas file-sharing case: Virgin Records et al. win again.
So justice really is hard–even harsh. We’ve followed and written about this one for over two years: Virgin Records America, Inc. v. […]
Financial regulation in America: A British view.
See an opinion piece entitled “Better broth, still too many cooks” in this week’s The Economist. It is a critique of the […]
Patten on UK redundancies.
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right. —Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian novelist (1830-1917) Or “terminations”, or firings, to […]
“Mexico: Working With The Mañana Culture”
By Fernando E. Rivadeneyra, Puebla, Mexico Editor’s Note: Fernando Rivadeneyra is a talented and highly-regarded business lawyer who works literally all over […]
Notes from the Breadline (Part V)
We got busy and we missed it. This is Part V of Above The Law‘s “Notes from the Breadline” by “Roxanna St. […]
The Economy: Europe moving right-ward–for now.
See “A United Europe?” by Michael Gates at Richard Lewis’s Cross-Culture. Excerpts: The recent European elections saw a significant lurch to the […]
Mañana at What About Clients?: Fernando Rivadeneyra
The biggest cultural obstacle for many foreign investors in Mexico can be described in one word: ‘mañana.’ —Fernando E. Rivadeneyra, Puebla, Mexico. […]
Breaking: Local Boy Makes Good
Scott Greenfield of Simple Justice. NY Law Journal: “Free: Court Finds Attorney’s Unsolicited Faxes Did Not Violate Communications Act“. Greenfield (client cropped […]
The Ninth Circuit: Banks, Credit Cards and Collections.
If you’re a bank, consider writing your contracts under New Hampshire law. (If you’re a cardholder, pay your bills). If you have […]
Wanted: One Huntin’ Dog.
One gift of The Recession is that it has improved the work ethic of people of all ages, including people born after […]
John Hope Franklin
And Bill Clinton does Duke–but let’s not miss the point. On Friday Bill Clinton gave a eulogy in the Duke Chapel for […]
The Economist: On the Public Debt
See “The Biggest Bill in History” in this week’s The Economist. It begins: The worst global economic storm since the 1930s may […]
Supreme Court’s Massey Coal recusal decision: 5-4
Is that an elected state judge in your pocket? Or are you just happy to see me? Quick and dirty re: elected […]
WAC Special: Raising the Bar–A Second Season Preview
Below Rob Bodine, WAC?’s newest co-writer, a Washington, D.C.-based IP lawyer, reviews this season’s opening episodes of Raising The Bar. That’s tonight, […]
The Internet’s Spine Problem: “Big Mouths. No Names”.
Mr. Chicken: He comments, and blogs, but doesn’t use his real name. Some day he’ll become a person, who’ll put his real […]
John Arthur Carradine (1936-2009)
One of us, if you grew up in the 1960s-1970s. Forget about Shane and Kung Fu, which likely embarrassed him. A brilliant […]
Standards. Tools That Work. Get Some.
Is the usual “sales” model designed for failure? Renaissance human, NYT-best selling author and sales consultant Sharon Drew Morgen asks: “Why Is […]
China Law for Business: Marriage, Mistresses–and Love’s Odd Equitable Remedies.
Make beaucoup dollar. Now give back. Here’s something that didn’t happen in Elkhart, Muncie or Connersville last week. Or Indianaoplis, either. At […]