An American deadline in Paris?
Law is no longer local–and neither is the apparatus for doing it. The court. A colleague. A crisp clerk named Zoe at […]
Month: September 2009
Gare d’Orsay
Taken of the former famous train station, now a famous museum, on January 9, 2008 by Eric at ParisDailyPhoto. Called Photo of […]
Great targeted clients aren’t that into you. Show you’re good at what you do. And get a plan.
Fred, where’d you buy those dandy two-toned golf shoes? May mosey on down to BassPro this weekend and get a pair myself. […]
Talk to the China Hand: “China Trademarks–Do You Feel Lucky?”
Read it again. Listen to Dan Harris, no punk, never law cattle, and hands down the most feisty China hand on the […]
Pittsburgh: Lord, Take Me Downtown.
I’m just looking for a way to get into work. The irony of the third G-20 summit? Despite the worldwide plug Pittsburgh […]
The Democratic Party of Japan’s Tenous Hold over Japan
Be careful what you wish for. Recently, on Richard Lewis Communication’s blog, Cross-Culture, Jacques Méon addressed why it took 50 years for […]
Victims of Copyright Infringement Have More Time to File Their Claim
In William A. Graham Company v. Haughey, No. 08-2007 (June 5, 2009), agreeing with eight other federal courts of appeals, the U.S. […]
Today in Calais: French police lose it a little.
Stranger and more violent things have happened on the shore facing Kent over the past 2200 years. But illegal immigration is increasingly […]
Redux: Martindale-Hubbell: Should we all just say no?
Note: The following is from an August 5, 2008 post. Any new takes on this? Is a Martindale-Hubbell listing worth it anymore? […]
The Economist: Is Atlanticism striking out in Eastern Europe?
For nearly twenty years, ex-communist regions of Europe were high on America. The U.S. had been viewed as an unfailing cheerleader, and […]
Hunting Bigger Game: There’s No Reason Good Boutiques Can’t Catch and Keep Fortune 500 Clients
No, I don’t think of all this as a sport. In many cases, it’s akin to “rescue operations”. Color me predatory but […]
One American’s Kashmir
This summer WAC?‘s peripatetic friend Maryam, a Morocco-based photojournalist at My Marrakesh, visited the legendarily beautiful but long-troubled Kashmir region of India, […]
Two Windsor Castle gargolyes
Extreme ambitions suddenly seize Russia.
Maybe master shape-shifting first, Comrades? See Newsweek: “Medvedev’s Anti-Alcohol Campaign Tries to Make Russia Sober Up“. The idea is to cut the […]
Litigation: Two Ways of the Trial Notebook.
Originally posted September 8, 2008 from Amsterdam: From the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, where there are Old Ones and Young Ones in their […]
Remedies: More China Mistress Sex Contract Law.
Chinese courts tend to look much more at the equities of a situation than at the literal meaning of the contract or […]
The 3 best damn podcast shows for business lawyers.
WAC?, and the undersigned especially, is wrong about many things. We would never have predicted that “Podcasts”–or Internet-based radio shows–would have lasted, […]
Pont Saint-Patrick, Cork
I bind to myself today The power of Heaven, The light of the sun, The brightness of the moon, The splendour of […]
Plan B for recruiting “Grunts”?
The “elite” associates you recruited: Would they fight for your clients? Would they fight for anyone? (Columbia Pictures, 1981) Uh, “associates”, rather. […]
P&G’s new chief Bob McDonald: On leadership.
The graveyards of leadership are littered with people who have ignored culture. Bob McDonald, the new CEO of Procter & Gamble (NYSE: […]
The Duke Experience
From yesterday’s edition of The Chronicle, the enduring and well-regarded Duke student daily: JUDGE OKS PRESSLER’S SLANDER SUIT A North Carolina appeals […]
Devil Perfectionism
Tormented GC in South East Asia: “The dweebs. The dweebs.” The downside of Type-A. Perfectionism. A great place to “be from”. A […]