Eric O’Neill: Hard times jeopardize security clearances.
In Washington, D.C. alone, over 300,000 people from all walks of life have a national security clearance or approval from the federal […]
Month: October 2010
Dante’s Charon: Crossings.
The Ferryman Charon. Gustave Doré’s illustration to Dante’s Inferno. Plate IX: Canto III: And lo! towards us coming in a boat An […]
Dante’s Charon: On Crossings.
The Ferryman Charon. Gustave Doré’s illustration to Dante’s Inferno. Plate IX: Canto III: And lo! towards us coming in a boat An […]
German Boards of Directors are Different.
For one thing, there’s usually two of them per corporation. So if you’ve ever wondered why your Germany-based client seems, well, deliberate […]
Hungary Culturally
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Litigation: Currently are Federal Judges “Better” Than State Judges? Are They Better For for Clients?
Yes–to both questions. Call me non-egalitarian, a Tory or an elitist but state court judges–trial or appellate–should never be popularly elected. Ever. […]
Saturday: Pre-Depression Era Moxie Music.
“Down on the heels, up on the toes, stay after school, learn how it goes.” –Buddy De Sylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson
Again, French workers protest cruel Anglo-Saxon work regimes.
We check in on the French work ethic frequently. This week, French citizens in several cities have been marching against proposals–long pushed […]
Scott Abeles: On SCOTUS players–and clients.
Are U.S. Supreme Court stars always worth it? Washington, D.C. litigator and appellate lawyer Scott Abeles writes about the “Supreme Court Practice’s […]
National Writing Day: Blawg Review #286
This week’s Blawg Review is a soulful meditation on writing. It’s also a kind of ode to us unsung rubes who’ve loved […]
More Unmaskings: Bravo, Carla Franklin.
So now maybe we can start having fair fights–and know where to serve that summons. This is a “privacy” issue? A privacy […]
Stephanie West Allen: On Changing, Evolving, Growing–Millennials, Boomers, and other Humans.
These are the Big Changes in personality and spirit: an overhaul or re-wiring of the brain, and an unfurling of the soul […]
The Problem of Witness Demeanor in International Disputes.
In international arbitration and mediation, first-language barriers can be the least of your client’s difficulties. How does a mediator or arbitrator arrive […]
Get off your lawyer knees. Say and do something about elected state judges.
“That a local judge in your pocket? Or you just happy to see me?“ State judicial systems with popularly-elected judges send two […]
Watkins on Business Mediation.
Atlanta-based Barnes & Thornburg partner John L. Watkins recently launched a multi-part site called Watkins Mediation: Business Mediation Resources, which includes a […]
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Solomon Burke (1940-1970)
In the history of the universe, was there ever a hustler like this? Shades and rings and alligator shoes, creases sharp as […]
Hard Times at Duke.
The Duke Experience. In The Chronicle, the award-winning, muckraking, star-hatching, and these days way-tawdry 105-year-old Duke daily newspaper, visit “Sex List Draws […]
Running Firms: Tightening Up.
Watch closely in first 22 seconds the three guys dancing in the video. Gay or just Bible-based Christians? Archie Bell and the […]
Wow. I’m blown away. Way to return that phone call!
The most beautiful maiden in the leper colony. Why try “to exceed expectations” when the overall lawyer standard is perceived as low […]
Rancho Bernardo, California
I spend a lot of time here. Like my beloved alma mater hundreds of miles away, it is s small but serious […]
George W. Bush, Revisited, Sort Of.
From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Sunday, February 3, 2008, “One of us“.
Directions. (1) Skip ‘Gail’ (2) Forward to 0:53 (3) Duck-Walk.
Note: None of America’s “New Lame” should miss the last 20 seconds. “Wayne Kramer and Ramblin’ Rose…” 1970.
Consider a run for President, too, Rahm.
Why not? I do like Rahm–and always have. This is not merely because Rahm Emanuel might well have been my Congressman, and […]