Month: September 2013

Statutes, regs, courts, government agencies, languages, food and coffee shops do vary from nation to nation and jurisdiction to jurisdiction–and even just […]

Here’s a gem we missed in May at Richard Lewis’s great Cross-Culture site: “Normal is crazy enough: Four things you need to […]

Education is about more than getting a job. Cultural literacy and a working knowledge of the world’s history and institutions–and even of […]

For relatively urgent things, or for transactions or litigation when they get fast. Here’s a suggestion to make both clients and firms […]

Get your Druid learn on. Today marks the Autumnal Equinox. Cultures and religions worldwide do get weird this time of year. It’s […]

Life is short, opera is long, and Wagner is longer. —Plácido Domingo, Spanish tenor, L.A. Opera general director. German tenor Johannes Sembach […]

Long ago, on the two Jewish high holidays, my brother and I would be two of a very few gentile students who […]

With thanks to Charon QC, our man in West London.

Why? Because even the most sophisticated clients think that too many of us are still clueless dorks who don’t help much. See […]

See “What are you thinking?” Also entitled: “If a neuron fires in a brilliant young lawyer’s head, and no one hears it […]

See his classic ABA Journal article “It’s All About You“. Learn more about something hard. Excerpt: Stop trying to talk like lawyers. […]