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12 Rules of Client Service
…are right here. Revel in their Wisdom. Ignore them at your Peril. Teach them to The Help.
Happy 53rd Earth Day. Thank you, Sen. Nelson.
Happy Birthday. Earth Day. 4.22.1970. Thank you my first boss Gaylord Nelson and Denis Hayes.
The Wrong Stuff?
What if the regime of diversity, inclusion and equity produced a substantial breakdown of the day to day management of the Western […]
Writing Well: The Editors.
“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.” –H.G. Wells (1866-1946) “I have performed the […]
Norman Cousins: But can you write?
It makes little difference how many university degrees or courses a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an […]
Frederic Leighton, “The Return of Persephone,” 1891
Spring ignored Mankind and arrived as usual. Finally. Happy Spring to any fellow Druids, Life Worshipers and Optimists. Get out of your […]
Rule 4: Deliver legal services that change the way clients think about lawyers.
Based on actual experience lawyering, we wrote and published 12 Rules of Client Service in installments during a six-month period starting in […]
Dean Swift
Swift was a Titan in rebellion against Heaven. — John L. Stoddard, 1901 Anglo-Irish, Angry and Brave: See one of our past […]
107 Things Long-Divorced Slightly Amoral American Lawyers Know.
1. Swive no one named Zoe, Brigit or Natasha. 2. Let no one leave anything in your home or hotel room. 3. […]
Lawyering: You Don’t Get to Have a Bad Day.
Job and His Friends, Vladimir Borovikovsky, 1810 There are bad days. A parent is sick. A child gets stitches. You are coming […]
The American Morality Olympics
The giddy drive to make all American civic strife a team sport or a cartoon “” complete with stock heroes and stock […]
Legal London in the Spring: Law Cattle in Love
Each Spring, we send you the complete text of a circa-1595 comedy by Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost. You can read it aloud–or, […]
Doing America: Open, Talky, Informal, Wonderfully Appalling.
People will not wait to be introduced and will even begin to speak with strangers as they stand in a line, sit […]
Still working on Maggie’s Farm?
“It’s a shame the way she makes me sweep the floor…”
Hesse on Good Friday
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb […]
Easter Rising 1916: 107 years ago in Dublin.
460 killed, 2600 wounded, 16 executions. The proclamation was read by Patrick Pearse outside the General Post Office in Dublin on Sackville […]
This is East Anglia: Aldeburgh.
More precisely, it’s in Suffolk, East Anglia, England, on the coast, and jutting out into the North Sea. Due east: The Netherlands, […]
Indian Hill
I miss growing up in Indian Hill, Ohio. A community that protected its own. If I were driving around at 17 and […]
4E Prayer
No one bears more responsibility for the current stark cultural and political divides in America and Europe than our once-respected mainstream and […]
