Breaking news: $90 is too much for pay for torn jeans.
News of the Revolution. And $300 and hour is too much to pay for a first year associate to read documents–if not […]
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Beavis, just tell them: “No pro bono–no Beavis”.
Reformation of the evils of BigLaw is a wonderful thing…. [The] evil [is] to the clients who pay for useless hours by […]
Comrade Kim gets re-elected.
New York Times: “Unopposed, Kim Jong-Il Takes Third Term“. Taking measure of running-dog lackeys of imperialist West.
Query: How many law students does it take to read a newspaper?
Clueless in America. When WAC? was just 25-years-old, he was already a brilliant securities lawyer, independently wealthy, and a leading expert on: […]
Obama in Europe: More than Kennedy-lite.
WAC? is wrong about many things–and was wrong to suggest five months ago that Barack Obama was not ready for prime time […]
Desperately Seeking Value For Clients.
Four ‘down-economy’ questions: 1. After the economy stabilizes, “should associates pay their law firms in the first two to three years?” 2. […]
Arbitration: Faster, cheaper, interminable. Business executives expect arbitration to finish much faster than their lawyers do. Not surprising. What is surprising is […]
Celestial: Declarations and Exclusions
We worked hard this week–but did one mandatory non-billable thing. We visited, read and listened to George Wallace‘s Blawg Review #205, and […]
Keeping Clients: “Do we really need a memo on that?”
Maybe go to the mirror and practice saying that to your client. Another way to say it: You know, Elizabeth, this project […]
The G-20 summit: Venus considers Mars.
It’s no surprise that European caution versus U.S. drive toward stimulus strategies is the main theme of President Obama’s eight-day trip. The […]
Holden H. Oliver (1968-2009)
WAC? co-writer, former reporter and third-year law student Holden Oliver died Tuesday in Palo Alto at Stanford University Medical Center. A Boston […]
George Wallace’s Declarations and Exclusions
_____ and out there…..as our friend Raoul Duke said, free lunch, final wisdon total voerage.
Wagoner fails Obama test, resigns from General Motors.
It’s a big story–and an unusual one. Over 4,000 articles, including this one at WSJ. But no publication is more entitled to […]
Redux: Lawyering and Overstatement.
Going with Fergus. Here’s something you can use, starting today. If you’re spectacularly Irish–you guys know who you are–you should also take […]
Saturday’s Charon QC: Meet the Prime Minister
Charon After Dark: An interview with Gordon Brown? “Few people get a chance to interview an unelected serving Prime Minister and I […]
“Reinventing” the Latin American Law Firm–Part II of II
By Fernando E. Rivadeneyra, Puebla, Mexico Editor’s Note: This is Part II of an article by our friend and colleague Fernando Rivadeneyra, […]
Since 2006 our firm has employed two external consultants, one of whom has been instrumental in giving each lawyer (or group of […]
Does this mean we’re not invited to Eastern Europe’s 67th annual Chronic Bad Mood Festival held in Prague this summer?
Deposed Czech leader kicks out the jams; U.S. on fiscal Highway to Hell. Finally, at least, we meet a European–and an EU […]
“Reinventing” the Latin American Law Firm–Part I of II
By Fernando E. Rivadeneyra, Puebla, Mexico Editor’s Note: Fernando Rivadeneyra is much more than a talented and highly-regarded business lawyer who works […]
A Cambridge degree. An Oxford education.
More Celtic and Brit quirk. For all you godless, dancing and (according to National Geographic yesterday) flesh-eating druids out there in America […]
Marketing and Client Service: Your staff must “buy into” them.
Now more than ever. We’ve repeatedly said about Client Service (or “ease-of-use“) and your employees: “Buy into it or leave”. Your firm […]
Talk about an employer’s market.
“Hi. I am nobody from nowhere–and I am about to eat your lunch.” ALM’s Legal Blog Watch: “Lawyers Can’t Even Find Work […]
A moving tribute to the Human Spirit.
And to drunkenness, madness, small animals, the secret Ree-Lax Parlor in DC’s West End, “dooce”-bags, Kelly’s Irish Times Saloon, Ruthie, and far […]
LexThink March 29-30: Head Heartland, Young Man.
The next LexThink is Sunday and Monday, March 29-30, 2009 at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Even the payment terms are innovative. […]
We had…also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen […]
U.S. Const. Amend. I: GeekLawyer Test on 3.16.09
Heads up for Yanks of the Weenie persuasion. See Blawg Review #666.
That’s the spirit! (We hope it’s true.) Yes, do what Boomers and their Greatest Generation parents did when they got stung: (1) […]