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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 […]
State of the West
Based on my various news aggregators and feeds, Western culture is now so fragmented and degraded that we’ve raised minutia and trivia […]
Disraeli on Lawyering: Is law just life on the sidelines?
Young Ben Disraeli: “I rust like a Damascus sabre in the sheath of a poltroon.” Is being a good lawyer enough? Consider […]
Super Bowl Now
I raptly watched the first Super Bowl with my dad and brother in 1967. To us, a jock clan, nothing was cooler. […]
Modern Alcoholics Anonymous: Springboard? Or Permanent Cocoon?
When will my beloved AA get back to getting people clean and sober to participate in real life?
Storytelling for trial lawyers, writers and actual humans in 16 words.
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. —Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Chekhov with Maxim […]
Euripides: On Dog Fights
Ten soldiers wisely led, will beat one hundred without a head. –Euripides (480-406 BC)