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“Newport Beach is like a French Impressionistic painting.” This is Orange County’s version of Westport, in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Interestingly, Newport Beach […]

Tara Bradford is an American “living la vie Parisienne while writing a book”. Behold “Books Galore” at Tara’s wonderful Paris Parfait, see […]

Do “UK law firms have a more sophisticated approach to strategy than North American firms”? See this post at The Adventure of […]

Try this mantra: “Life’s short, practicing law done correctly is hard, and no client is better than a bad one.” We love […]

Two Stolen Monkeys Are Returned To Owner EIGHTY FOUR, Pa. (AP) – Two exotic monkeys were returned yesterday to a private wildlife […]

There’s an interesting interview of three San Diego lawyers on the recent southern California fires right here at the October 31 edition […]

Make that a tough month for Merrill Lynch, the U.S. brokerage founded in 1914. First, record losses and stock plunge, and CEO […]

Business Week: Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin is tasked with finding a new Citigroup CEO.

salon.com posted 10-12-07 Title: Protein Wisdom Author: Jeff Goldstein http://proteinwisdom.com/

You can expect to hear more from industry and government in the next few years on the issues of responses to global […]

salon.com posted 10-16-07 Title: Confederate Yankee Author: Bob Owens http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/

A Truly Blessed Event. Twins–a boy and a girl, according to AP. Forty-nine year old mother and babies are doing fine, CNN […]

Two blogs on France in English: French-Law.net, “French Law in English”, by Nicolas Jondet, currently in Edinburgh; and French Politics by Arthur […]

The talented but “unstuffy” Melbourne-based commercial law firm of Nicholas Weston just launched Australian Trade Marks Law Blog. This is a promising […]

One of the best sites out there on client service–you can use it or get an idea from it today–is still at […]

See here for Blawg Review #133 at Chicago IP Litigation Blog, by David Donoghue.

Well, WAC? thinks lawyers are exciting. If you’ve never “partied” with American corporate tax lawyers drunk on Jesuit educations and a few […]

Chuck Newton and WAC? are Jay Foonberg fans. If you don’t know who Foonberg is–whether the number of lawyers in your firm […]

See “The Fine Art of Bird-Dogging” up at Jim Hassett’s Legal Business Development. It’s from his column last month at Law Firm, […]

AP: Bush Backs Mukasey on Waterboarding “Stance” [quotation marks ours]. The U.S. attorney general nominee Mukasey is a fine lawyer and jurist. […]

Morrison & Foerster’s San Diego office has put together just such a manual, and you can easily download its 72 pages here. […]

See at Bloomberg.com Matthew Lynn’s piece London Hands Back Finance-Hub Status to New York. Lynn gives “four reasons why London has blown […]

Blawg Review is the popular and clever showcase of each week’s best law blog posts. It’s edited by a person known as […]

AP: Torture Suit Against Rumsfeld filed in France.

The AP reports that Stan O’Neal will retire. Merrill Lynch has announced $2.2 billion in losses, due largely to the expansion of […]

After fifteen days away, I returned to San Diego on Saturday. The whole town, starting inside of the airport terminal, smelled like […]

We continue with our showcasing of a few of the better political blogs in honor of the 2008 election–alternating the right and […]

Bravo. And does this mean WAC? can exchange the pesos we got stuck with in Buenos Aires in 2001? See at Reuters, […]

We think global warming is a real and actual thing–but did Big Al go a bit far with its real and actual […]