Month: January 2011
Mamet via Baldwin: “You say you’re a good father? Screw you. Go home and play with your kids”.
These are the Glengarry leads. And you don’t get them. Thanks for reminder to Eric Mayer to Military Underdog.
Felix Desruelles
A Left Bank square at I Prefer Paris, by Richard Nahem. Square Felix Desruelles: Blvd. St. Germain, near St. Germain Church, 6th […]
If You’re First-Rate, Lean & Mean, Do Charge More. (And Please Get Off Your Knees.)
Go ahead. Take their best clients to a better world and experience. If your firm’s under 100 lawyers, has publicly-traded clients and […]
Wake up loud, Teacups.
Spread out the oil, the gasoline. My hands are greasy. She’s a mean, mean machine. Start it up. We’re waiting.
We Lawyers: The Undisciplined. The Disorganized. The Miserable.
“What ever is he talking about?” Western business schools, and especially the training programs of large global and publicly-traded companies, do a […]
Sometimes a Great Notion: NPDES Permit Training by US EPA.
Wastewater Permitting the Right Way. A Permit Writers’ Course. Worthwhile, and something that doesn’t happen every day. Live or on-line. Or five […]
Ex-US EPA Chief William Reilly on BP Investigation Report.
Reilly was co-chair of the U.S. commission to investigate last year’s BP Gulf spill. He spoke last night in Durham, NC. See […]
Reynolds Price, 77, dies.
“Part of the soul of Duke.” http://dukechronicle.com/article/reynolds-price-literary-giant-passes-away
In 2012, Sarah Kate Silverman for New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District.
Americans and Speech. We’ve become too thin-skinned and polite with Words. Many of us still live by a script. We’ve made progress […]
Rue Cambon, Paris.
Two of several photos two years ago by Paris and Amsterdam-based Tara Bradford, an American writer, at the fine Paris Parfait:
Heroes: Chris Abraham. The Man’s an Artist.
Berlin and DC-based, on fire, and the human reason (together with Pat Lamb) WAC/P? exists, get to know Renaissance Man Chris Abraham […]
Saturday’s Charon QC: A Whole Man Endures.
The man’s an artist. For a few days in March 2007, short fleshy German women in bad moods were attractive. Now in […]
THE Book: International Arbitration & Mediation–A Practical Guide.
And we’ll see the Movie when they make it. “Today’s business world is about risk.” That’s the first sentence of the 2010 […]
GOP-led U.S. House repeals year-old health care reform law.
Sometimes a Smug Notion. Noted. And it probably won’t matter. Now it’s the Senate’s turn. And then there’s a veto cooking up […]
Chris Abraham: Seer, Force, Renaissance Man, Your Future.
He’s a Force of Nature and there’s nothing anyone can do about it so just follow his career and eventually join him. […]
Two Former Hull McGuire Associates Turn to Crime.
“Hey Beavis, let’s check their garage after this.” See at MSNBC “Burglars Snort Ashes of Cremated Man and Two Dogs“. Excerpts: Burglars […]
Two Client-Centric Places to Visit.
The reason they are so helpful may lie in the fact that lawyers, accountants, and other professionals are just a small part […]
North Korea: The Look and Feel of Juche.
Only rarely does Blogdom really earn its keep. But there are exceptions. Don’t miss “A Visit to North Korea“, both the reporting […]
Duke: Cisco Systems’ John Chambers to give 2011 graduation main address.
See The Chronicle, Duke’s daily.
Small, Medium-Sized and Start-Up Clients are a Miserable, Demeaning and Tortuous Hell.
That Walker’s well-credentialed law firm specializes in that work, apparently without morning drinking, Ludes, Thorazine, Ether or routine institutionalizations of its lawyers, […]
Rule Three: Ensure Everyone Knows That The Client Is The Main Event.
Rule Three: Make Sure Everyone in Your Shop Knows That The Client Is The Main Event. The truth is that they probably […]
My Marrakesh: No “Ordinary Life”.
…don’t live an ordinary life–anyone can do that. Be brave. Live a life filled with adventure. It’s short. Don’t divert its natural […]
Hermann the German: Tucson, Guns and Sarah Palin.
The New Congressional Redistricting in the Wild West. Probably not. So we always listen to the Berlin-based Hermann the German at Observing […]
Martin Luther King Day: BR #294 by A Public Defender, “Gideon”.
The bright and way feisty if thin-skinned anonymous young guy “Gideon”, who writes the fine A Public Defender, has a very first-rate […]