My American States: Dudes, Where’s My Merit-Based Judge Selection?
Yes–it’s the same basic article we always run. Get used to it. Socially, we are pretty liberal on these folks. No really. […]
Month: January 2011
Salzburg: Mozart, Huns and Lawyers.
St. Peter’s cemetery. Catacombs are further down and up in the cliff. You may dream in American. But you still live in […]
The Internet Law Center’s Bennet Kelley: There’s a Recession?
Intelligent, shrewd, funny, but still able to be cold and calculating when he needs to, as all truly excellent lawyers need to […]
Sane Post-Church Chat for a Sunday: Silverman v. The Vatican.
Settlement Bonus: Seller snags cash for new Papal Waterslide.
Via Twitter we just landed $5.5 million engagement.
Coming soon. We’ll post about it any day now–by end of next week, hopefully. Very soon. Yeah, that’s the ticket. For sure.
Why Are You Paying New Law Hires? Law Profs Don’t Pay Students To Learn.
He’s saying he didn’t want to be President of the United States so he could stay home and be “Daddy”? Give me […]
South Wales: Swansea Jacks? In Bergen County, NJ, right?
Well, no. But we know that you’ve never been anywhere–and that you’re not the least bit curious about Anything East of Bermuda. […]
Bruce Antkowiak: “Why Law Schools Must Reform”.
Law firms cannot be expected to do 95% of the work of lawyer-building. In that regime, clients suffer the most. The U.S. […]
Bruce Antkowiak: “Why Law Schools Must Reform”.
The U.S. Law Degree: As immediately useful as “a Ph.d in Poetry”? Bruce Antkowiak, a storied Pennsylvania defense trial lawyer, ex-DOJ section […]
Bennet Kelley on Tucson: A New Year of Living Dangerously?
See Bennet Kelley’s column yesterday in the Huffington Post, “Responding to Tucson’s Day of Terror“. Excerpts: Gabby and her husband Mark thanked […]
Paris in White. Richard Nahem in Tuileries.
Visit Richard Nahem at I Prefer Paris today. First, if you’re an American, find out where Europe is located. Figure out where […]
Some Good Tucson News: Representative Giffords is Alive.
Not much good news. And at one point Saturday afternoon Fox News was the first media source to report that Gabrielle Giffords […]
Wake Up Loud, American Workers.
Still Hatin’ Life. You even have It anymore?
A Freshman Senator to Watch: Ohio’s Rob Portman.
Pretend for a moment that all Republicans and Democrats cannot be reduced to cartoon characters and cultural stereotypes, or relegated to someone’s […]
What if your life was actually interesting? Expats in the U.S and Europe vs. China.
See in The Economist “A Tale of Two Expats“. Is life really easier for Western expatriates in China than it is for […]
Frac me: Marcellus what?
If your firm does any work whatsoever for clients in fossil fuels–energy, environmental or the business side of either–see in Environmental Protection […]
Ed Rendell: A Democrat with Sand.
Last week’s National Journal showed the outgoing Pennsylvania Governor riled: “The Wussification of America“. Keep doing that, sir. New male interviewees are […]
The 112th Congress: Bring It. But Bring Jobs.
I’m so nervous I just sit and smile. I worked “up there” twice but I never saw this: (a) 15% real unemployment, […]
2011 Resolves
» Whataboutparis Dan Hull In 2011, when you interview, trust gut over resumes. Tell lazy coif law grads about how much fun […]
Breaking: Erudite Brit explains Cicero to Unwashed Yankees.
Arrival of Charon. Gustave Doré’s take on Dante’s Inferno. Plate IX: Canto III: And lo! towards us coming in a boat An […]
Just Clapton
Don’t forget this fact, you can’t get it back; cocaine. She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie; cocaine.
