Redux: The Sacred, Immovable, No-Excuses Weekly Conference Call.
They are missed or canceled only for the most compelling reasons. Vacations, trips to Europe, Asia, South America, head colds, bad traffic, […]
Month: August 2009
“Humanizing law school”: Mr. Rogers makes it nicer and funner.
Do clients deserve Big Bird in the trenches? Please get the net. And will that guy fight four you and yours when […]
We Americans? We lawyers? Too normal?
So, Justin, did you ever have an original thought in your whole damn life? Go ahead. Go crazy. It’s Friday. Wear those […]
FCPA and China: Teleconference on September 3.
China is, after all, this century’s Wild West show. See Dan Harris’s China Law Blog for details about a seminar next Thursday […]
Client Town or Lawyer Town?
“The Lawyers”, circa 1855, Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) Are the three gentlemen in this famous sketch client-centric or “lawyer-oriented”? We will never know. […]
Cambodia
WAC?, Cambodia, 1968. Savor the brutality: Get Badness in your case out in the open. There is a reason why it is […]
Litigation: If you bill by the hour, why not bill twice a month?
Billing twice a month keeps the client more attuned in real-time to the actual economic demands of the project–and helps the client […]
The AALS: Desperately seeking trivia?
Too early to tell if this meritorious or not–but according to one blog post, which we presume was not joking, AALS has […]
Litigation: The Miracle, Salvation, and Holy Surprise 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 […]
Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921-2009)
I grew up in a family of Depression Era-WWII Parents and Boomer Kids. For us, the U.S. economy overall was very good […]
E-mail: Are you lawyering or typing? Is either one of them working for you?
Humans are damn fine machines when plugged into one another. Voices, vibes, faces, bodies, winks, hand gestures, touching another’s hand or shoulder […]
More Manhattan Moxie: “Notes from the Breadline” continues.
Going suddenly solo and writing about it takes big ones. See at Above the Law: “To Be On Your Own (Part II)”, […]
Paris and Real Life: In black, white and fresh.
Work and life. I love both so I do not separate them. No need to. They usually merge, occasionally split, but always […]
Greater China: More than a feeling.
Dan Harris is no digital creep. In good and bad times, China is part of our new world. Visit China Law Blog. […]
“Just like a hog”… Use your real names on the Net.
To comment and be published at this blog you must tell us who you really are–unless you are a Chinese dissident, a […]
Nicely done, WJC.
Bill Clinton always did come to play. He and movie pals have excellent airplane adventure, do critical reconnaissance on the Dear Leader, […]
Can “professionalism” be a smokescreen for mediocre lawyering?
“Professionalism”–like good crops, the flag and motherhood–is indeed hard to criticize. It is also tough to define. Is it always good for […]
Speaking and Writing Well: The Overstatement.
If you’re wonderfully but spectacularly Irish, like WAC?, and you try cases, you should also take notes here. And then take a […]
Original Complaint
Ah, but it is hard to find this track of the divine in the midst of this life we lead… Hermann Hesse, […]