Balking at America
“Once they let you get away with running around for ten years like a king hoodlum, you tend to forget now and […]
Robert C. Townsend: Lawyers, Guns and Politics.
Lawyers take to politics like bears to honey. Other things being equal, try to pick lawyers who are active in politics. The […]
Redux Online Lolita: Real Life Facebook Messenger Romances.
A youngish, attractive female human “”between 18 and 25 from “her” photo “” recently friended me on Facebook. I apparently accepted thinking […]
The Book of Kells
Is anything human-made more beautiful? Below is Folio 292r (circa 800) of The Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript of the four […]
“Nice Smart American Kids Make Lousy Lawyers”
Image: Ragdoll Productions for BBC TV What kind of human makes a great lawyer? I don’t mean a go-through-the-motions lawyer, a tell-you-what-the […]
“˜You don’t need the money with a face like that.’
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Like to thank the little people
Taken in 2023, this is the most unflattering Marco Island birthday photo I could find. There isn’t even a beach in it. […]
Herman Hesse jokes with The Immortals
Eternity is a mere moment–just long enough for a joke. –Hermann Hesse’s version of Goethe, dead, possessed of a superior perspective, and […]
James Baldwin’s “Tell Me How Long The Train’s Been Gone.”
An essayist at heart, American novelist, poet and playwright James Baldwin (1924-1987) wrote his experimental fourth novel about the life of Leo […]
World Famous, Highly Correct, Way-Annoying 12 Rules of Client Service
1. Represent only clients you like. 2. The client is the main event. 3. Make sure everyone in your firm knows the […]
Redux: In Praise of Structure
Do lawyers know how to get things done, done right and done on time? Do we even value that? I wonder. No, […]
‘Oh New York City you talk a lot…’
It’s not too far back on the highway not so long a ride. You park the car out in the open you […]
London’s Geeklawyer
@Geeklawyer on Dan Hull and What About Clients/Paris? “Hull? A depraved evil sociopathic neocon beast pretending to love clients to get into […]
Anglos, Saxons, Franks, Frisii: Good at Government?
The most civilized nations of modern Europe issued from the woods of Germany; in the rude institutions of those Barbarians we [received] […]
Partner Emeritus: On the Sanctity of Associate Lawyer Privacy Rights.
If you work for a peer firm, you will encounter me or someone very much like me. I or some form of […]
Lower England: Are you a Man of Kent?
As with London, and with the County of Suffolk to the north, from where my mother’s family came to Massachusetts via Ipswich […]
Stand-up Guys: Daniel O’Connell, Trial Lawyer.
Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847), the “Liberator of Ireland”, led a movement that forced the British to pass the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829, […]
Wordsworth
We no longer require humor in poets. We demand salvation. “” Mark Van Doren, 1950, commenting on the subtle graduation of William […]
Work-Life Sir Thomas Malory
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 […]
Kundera on Political Obsessives
Immortality, the 1990 novel by the late Czech writer Milan Kundera (1929-2023), is the one book everyone should read to understand ultra-political […]
Stepping away from mediocrity.
This is a 2020 book by an angry, misguided, talented black woman. Some good points here on white male mainstream mediocrity. Assuming […]
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, East Anglia
Go somewhere different. Meet someone different. Aldeburgh, Suffolk, East Anglia. Always a festival.
The Holy Surprise of Thinking on Your Own
He was a loner with an intimate bond to humanity, a rebel who was suffused with reverence. An imaginative, impertinent patent clerk […]
Rule 7: Know Thy Client.
Rule Seven: Know the Client The “12 Rules of Client Service” I have been posting one-by-one starting on November 19 [2006] appear […]
