Month: July 2012

Happy Tenth Birthday–and R.I.P.–Sarbanes-Oxley. Publicly-traded companies–their boards, officers, CFOs, lawyers and CPAs–are not likely to forget (1) Enron, the once-admired $100 billion […]

See it here by Los Angeles-based Alex Craigie of Detroit mainstay Dykema. It’s at his At Counsel Table, correctly subtitled “The Craft […]

Samantha Janus, “Guys and Dolls”, 2006, London

I don’t have one. A “life online”. A Life on the Internet, I mean. I don’t want one, either. For me, the […]

I am an Eagle Scout. Generally, and consistently, I have been enormously proud of that. For examples, I “rank” it above my […]

Many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country. The craving […]

While much of it will be old hat for American business people (and their lawyers) on the subject of employment discrimination, do […]

Visit Richard Nahem’s Eye Prefer Paris where two summers ago Nahem featured photos by his Yank friend Virginia Jones in “Paris Rouge“. […]

Certainly all about its clients, Two Bunch Palms is an older and vaguely Bohemian resort and spa in Desert Hot Springs, California […]

In Saturday’s WSJ see “The Customer as a God“, the new gospel according to Harvard-based David “Doc” Searls, and based on his […]

It’s not what you thought–but it could be even better. The real “new normal” is Complexity, Ambiguity, Toil & Elegance. Learn a […]

See Rebecca Penna’s post “Is there such a thing as the French Dream?” at Richard Lewis’s Cross-Culture. …change is definitely on France’s […]

Me? Color me silly and short-sighted. But I don’t have the first clue about leveraging this blog, my firm, my business or […]

Internet lawyer, Georgetown fan, radio host, network television guest, political commentator, Hull McGuire of counsel, writer columnist and Renaissance man Bennet Kelley […]

Internet lawyer, Georgetown fan, radio host, network television guest, political commentator, Hull McGuire of counsel, writer, columnist and Renaissance man Bennet Kelley […]

The front page USA Today article is far from comprehensive and might have better defined “services” industries–it ignores, for example, the growth […]

“And the moral of the story is never lean on the weird. Or they will chop your head off. Take my word […]

French President Francois Hollande today. Photo: Antoine Antoniol. AP: “Hollande oversees 1st Bastille Day as French president; clouded by family feud“. It […]

Historic Hayward Water Tower

Some companies still engage Customers in Service Hell. Canadian consultant Shaun Belding has a new post called “Customer Service Tip: Lose the […]

See MSNBC on protests of the July 1 election results: “Tens of thousands protest in Mexico against president-elect, alleging vote fraud“. Excerpt: […]