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WAC? loves Texans, having been forced to associate with some really great and quite bright ones while a student in Durham, North […]

PAMPLONA, SPAIN (AP) – Saturday “was the worst day for injuries in the nine-day San Fermin festival.” Police arrested 125 people during […]

Our next contest: The American Wide Boy Duke Cunningham Awards. Over the next few months, we’ll recognize and discuss hopelessly sleazy but […]

A gentleman named Ray Steib, who wins for attitude and phrasing. “How many Generation X associate lawyers does it take to screw […]

As usual London’s Charon QC (pronounced “Karen”) is smokin’. And drinking Spanish wine grown at high altitudes. Visit him in the Diary […]

To see Lon Chaney walkin’ with the Queen. To work, learn, play

Answer: In our firm, the answer is absolutely yes. Color us spoiled, and even unlawyer-like–but we refuse to represent clients we do […]

Put on a red light.

Tom Kane, at his consistently fine and useful Legal Marketing Blog, is right that “Press Releases Can Be An Effective Tool“. And […]

Twenty years ago, James McElhaney, a gifted lawyer, writer and teacher of trial tactics, and the ABA Litigation Section, first published McElhaney’s […]

Here, and it even came out a day early. Blimey. A fine and innovative job despite prominent mention of WAC?

Hull McGuire is torn. We love people, animals, plants and the outdoors. Yet with one notable exception, we are mostly Republican types […]

Fiesta de San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain, or the running of the bulls, dates back to 1591. But Hemingway made it way […]

Tomorrow I go there to spend about a week. Philadelphia has “it”, a buzz and energy only a few Americans cities have. […]

Here’s a you-must-read gem by Carolyn Elefant at her “beat” over at Legal Blog Watch: “How Law Students Become Lawyers“.

Please enter Holden Oliver’s damn Gen X light bulb contest. New deadline is July 9. And for inspiration see from today’s WSJ […]

On Independence Day, Americans celebrate their world-changing split from Great Britain, which arguably began in earnest on July 4, 1776. Americans and […]

While WAC? still thinks that solos face a tough time obtaining and keeping Fortune 500 clients (minimum: you need 3 full-time higher-end […]

Speaking of blogging Brit lawyers, and just in case you need it, do see the English-to-American Dictionary, which is all on one […]

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Today from across the pond we have a first-rate Blawg Review (#115) hosted by London-based Nearly Legal. There’s some nice coverage of […]

Shameless Anglophile WAC? spends time in England each year working. And studying London, old churches in Suffolk and Kent, Druids, Vikings, Sutton […]

There is still time to enter the historic GenX feeling-good-about-me/it-is-never-my-fault multi-tasking “light bulb” riddle competition: “How many Generation X associate lawyers does […]

Every Wednesday, Jim Hassett at Legal Business Development gives us a thoughtful and practical article on the art of the client. We […]

Lawyer and ADR consultant Justin Patten of Human Law goes through his checklist in “Can Tony Blair succeed in the ultimate mediation […]

Not exactly surprising news from the Associated Press about a new poll: WASHINGTON – Unease with American foreign policy and President Bush […]

WAC? may soon stop degrading and humiliating the summer help. See “Put Your Employees First and Your Customers Second” at Jay Shepherd’s […]

Upbeat, honest and just plain fun, Michelle Golden of Golden Marketing Inc. and Golden Practices may very well be the “anti-Geek”. Michelle […]

And why not? As we’ve predicted, watch for outgoing British prime minister Tony Blair to be the first full-time European Union president. […]