It’s Saturday morning. Know where your wife or girlfriend is?
Willie Dixon: “I-YAM…”
Month: July 2011
Redux: “Liking” Your Clients.
I’m no Stephen Covey. I suspect that burning inside each employee is an overwhelming ambition to Get Home, Eat Twinkies and Watch […]
Mr. Franken of Minnesota: All Couples Good Enough, Smart Enough, Equitable Enough.
So far he’s been a good Senator for Minnesota, the Dispossessed and the Left. We don’t have to agree with him on […]
Today, Yesterday, Los Angeles: Pitches, Dreams, Log Lines, Drive & Money.
Alien, 1979, directed by Ridley Scott: “Jaws” in outer space. Stills, 1989, novel by Samuel Hazo: Years after a celebrated war photographer […]
Washington, DC: It Never Lost Its Glow For Me. Not Once.
Law is the ultimate backstage pass. It’s the new priesthood. Make fun of D.C. all you want; but if you’ve never spent […]
Picasso, Guernica and the German Officer: “Did you paint this?”
Here’s a WWII story I first heard in 1992 in Paris from a struggling young Irish painter named Richard hustling his drinks […]
John Herschel Glenn, Jr: Happy Birthday to a Crowdpleaser’s Crowdpleaser.
This, Willy Loman, is what well-liked looks like. Twelve years after his 1962 earth orbits, John Glenn began to represent Ohio in […]
Legal Intelligencer: “Exploring Early Settlements: Sign of Weakness or Ethical Duty?”
See this one in Philadelphia’s Legal Intelligencer by Charlotte Thomas of Duane Morris. And if you represent litigation-savvy corporations, think about advocating […]
Self-Shilling Done Right: The Necessity and Art of Tooting Your Horn.
Everyone from Donald Trump and Little Richard to Ralph Nader and Lance Armstrong does it–just differently–and you should, too. Only a few […]
“Scientific” Evidence at the Casey Anthony Trial: Come to think of it, it bothered us a little, too.
See at Deliberations “The Real Danger from Casey Anthony’s Trial: Scary Scientific Evidence“. Excerpt: A cause of death that cannot be determined […]
Hull McGuire’s Bennet Kelley: He’s First in the ‘Hood.
Bennet Kelley’s Cyber Report on internet law just won First Place at the Los Angeles Press Club’s Southern California Journalism Awards for […]
The Economist: Fiscal Angst and Agony in Greece.
The Economist/Eyevine So you think America has problems? Yesterday’s The Economist tries to make sense of the ongoing and painful debate in […]