Month: May 2012

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Photo: Jon Berkeley and The Economist. The Decline of the Publicly-Traded Company? The public company idea is only about 150 years old […]

I am a first-born who can remember growing up. I can remember lots–or at least lots of versions–of it. Lots of people […]

Clients: “We need Quarterbacks and Project Managers.” Redux and Tribute to the Prescience of Carolyn Elefant and Reese Morrison: The Big Law […]

If you missed it three days ago when it appeared in the weekend edition of The Wall Street Journal, see author-consultant Tom […]

Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness, Bareheaded, Shoveling, Wrecking, Planning, Building, […]

“Gee, really glad we came up with all that emergency money.” The man who will likely be Greek’s next prime minister has […]

In my old ‘hood: A corner of the Hill to eat, drink, buy oddities and watch humans. A small funky Roman forum. […]

So what’s face restoration, anyway? See Dan Harris’s review at his China Law Blog of Saving Face in China, the book by […]

For The Economist‘s take on the shape of the United Kingdom and the governing Conservative Party’s mid-term slump, see “The Cameron Government: […]

Western media has long given Africa a consistently negative–if indeed often painfully accurate–portrayal as troubled, poor, corrupt and violent. Is China, now […]

1. Quarterbacks. Not mechanics and generic dweebs. 2. Value. Not reduced rates. 3. Verve. Not risk aversion. 4. Straight Talk. Not lawyer-accountant […]

Read at Simple Justice Scott Greenfield’s masterfully-titled post “The Message of 500 Clients“. And then read my comment: Stick a fork in […]

In a multitude of ways, no African state is more closely tied to the U.S. than Liberia, the West Africa region colonized […]

You need one firm leader. But customers and clients need two folks on each project, no matter how small. Two people need […]