Slackoisie Dream Killer #1
Contrary to what anyone will tell you, clients are not particularly concerned with your personal happiness, free time and relaxation. Nor is […]
Month: March 2010
Tan, ready and relaunched: European Court of Justice blog.
God save the Dutch, as they speak and write English beautifully–and often better than us Yanks. What’s the deal there, anyway? Dutch […]
ADR Risings
For lawyers, depositions are like CAT Scans. It seems you can never be faulted for doing one too many. If we can […]
Six months.
PR International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR) has released its new Global Rules For Accelerated Commercial Arbitration. Significant provisions of […]
Building.
There is no joy except in creation. There are no living beings but those who create. All the rest are shadows, hovering […]
Goodland, Florida: ‘You got a problem with that?’
Half the adult population in this tiny town is said to be “non-voting”. Lots of old–but extremely fast–boats. No pretense, not much […]
Litigation: Depositions should get the “Badness” out there.
One of our writers working with Montagnard troops, Cambodia, 1968. Get The Badness in your case out in the open. Hostile witnesses. […]
The strange “sound of teacups breaking”: Tips on hiring the ‘Wazee: .
Had enough of The Slackoisie Issue? . Well, unless you love bleeding money, you should keep worrying about it. Our observation: what’s […]
The Atlantic: Health care reform passage as “a tainted victory”.
Sunday’s vote was “landmark”, sure. So is each Hell’s Angels’ Labor Day Picnic. But it’s not over, even procedurally, and so far […]
“Settlement Perspectives”: Why not ask the GC?
Blog posts. Even when they come from the better law and business sites, most of them–about 99 percent, frankly–aren’t going to change […]
P&G’s Alan Lafley: Look to the meaningful “outside”.
The Consumer as Boss and Laboratory. For nine years, from 2000 to mid-2009, A.G. Lafley served as chairman of Cincinnati-based Procter & […]
Real Winter: He makes a blind man see.
Put some bleachers out in the sun And have it out on Highway 61. –R. Zimmerman John Dawson Winter III, b. Beaumont, […]
Play Time on the Internet is over. Wanted: A few good rules.
Certainly, if he were real, Ned Beatty’s character Bobby in the movie adaptation of the James Dickey novel Deliverance would be permitted […]
Big Moxie in Greensboro: Kyle Singler.
Want a job, Kyle? Call us. Let’s talk. From The Chronicle, Duke’s daily: “Singler’s dive into stands, solid shooting lead Duke to […]
“Settlement Perspectives”: Why not ask The Boss?
Here’s a gem we would like to have worked at and written ourselves (notwithstanding the kind mention of Pat Lamb’s blog and […]
UPDATED: CPR’s Interview of Richard Susskind: “The End of Lawyers?”
If you haven’t read him yet, you’ve probably heard of Richard Susskind, of Susskind’s latest book–or at least of the idea that […]
China Business: The Rules.
If you are walking into a meeting preparing for a heated pissing contest why bother? There are no deals of the century […]
Patrick Lamb: Get used to it, Jack.
It’s time to step back and re-think things when a hardworking optimistic trial lawyer and innovator like Pat Lamb writes this: “The […]
Canadian Bar Association: Serious about clients.
Keeping good clients, getting new ones, making new ones “stick”. These are on everyone’s mind these days. For all 4.5 years this […]
Hermann the German: Casting a Cold Eye.
“The Germanic work ethic is a hilarious myth.” Apparently, it’s not just Yanks. The work ethic is suffering globally during The Recession. […]
Idealawg: Can anyone fix Gen Y’s quick-fix chip?
Lest we begin to hear the awful roars of manager-wielded chainsaws in the white collar workplace. Seriously, for a sober moment, like […]
The Dude finally abides.
Bravo, Mr. Bridges. A win for the real-life opposite of The Slackoisie–or The Anti-Slackoisie. See The Los Angeles Times. We are not […]
Will someone please give Jeff Bridges his Oscar now?
Real heroes. For his performance in Crazy Heart–and because he has worked his ass off over the years to be excellent again […]
Fashion
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Back to Hell’s Kitchen.
Jacob Riis photo of Bandits’ Roost (1890) Above: Hell’s Kitchen, NYC, before it got cute. The work, images and outcry of Riis […]
The Religion of Hell’s Kitchen.
Jacob Riis photo of Bandits’ Roost (1890) Above: Hell’s Kitchen, NYC, before it got cute. The work, images and outcry of Riis […]
ChatRoulette. Chat hags. Come again?
We have questions. If 87% of players are male, could this be one of those “confused young men” things? Like a post-modern […]