Month: February 2024

Taken in 2023, this is the most unflattering Marco Island birthday photo I could find. There isn’t even a beach in it. […]

Eternity is a mere moment–just long enough for a joke. –Hermann Hesse’s version of Goethe, dead, possessed of a superior perspective, and […]

An essayist at heart, American novelist, poet and playwright James Baldwin (1924-1987) wrote his experimental fourth novel about the life of Leo […]

1. Represent only clients you like. 2. The client is the main event. 3. Make sure everyone in your firm knows the […]

Do lawyers know how to get things done, done right and done on time? Do we even value that? I wonder. No, […]

@Geeklawyer on Dan Hull and What About Clients/Paris? “Hull? A depraved evil sociopathic neocon beast pretending to love clients to get into […]

The most civilized nations of modern Europe issued from the woods of Germany; in the rude institutions of those Barbarians we [received] […]

If you work for a peer firm, you will encounter me or someone very much like me. I or some form of […]

As with London, and with the County of Suffolk to the north, from where my mother’s family came to Massachusetts via Ipswich […]

Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847), the “Liberator of Ireland”, led a movement that forced the British to pass the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829, […]

We no longer require humor in poets. We demand salvation. “” Mark Van Doren, 1950, commenting on the subtle graduation of William […]

No one really knows who wrote “Le Morte d’Arthur.” The best bet is Sir Thomas Malory, a mid-15th century knight and rogue’s […]

Immortality, the 1990 novel by the late Czech writer Milan Kundera (1929-2023), is the one book everyone should read to understand ultra-political […]

This is a 2020 book by an angry, misguided, talented black woman. Some good points here on white male mainstream mediocrity. Assuming […]

Go somewhere different. Meet someone different. Aldeburgh, Suffolk, East Anglia. Always a festival.

He was a loner with an intimate bond to humanity, a rebel who was suffused with reverence. An imaginative, impertinent patent clerk […]

Rule Seven: Know the Client The “12 Rules of Client Service” I have been posting one-by-one starting on November 19 [2006] appear […]

Mardi Gras, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1879

Catherine Deneuve, 52, in 1995.

Based on my various news aggregators and feeds, Western culture is now so fragmented and degraded that we’ve raised minutia and trivia […]

Young Ben Disraeli: “I rust like a Damascus sabre in the sheath of a poltroon.” Is being a good lawyer enough? Consider […]

I raptly watched the first Super Bowl with my dad and brother in 1967. To us, a jock clan, nothing was cooler. […]

When will my beloved AA get back to getting people clean and sober to participate in real life?

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. —Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Chekhov with Maxim […]