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Paris: Snow in the Rodin Garden.
“Snow is an uncommon occurrence in Paris and snow that sticks is practically a miracle.” On Saturday morning ex-New Yorker Richard Nahem […]
Druids worldwide to get wild around the 21st.
For centuries, starting around the 21st of the month, Druids liked to leave the house, get wild and “put on the dog”. […]
The Flourishing: Caesar’s Town in Toscana.
It started out as an Army Camp. Beginning around 60 BC, Julius Caesar founded the town on both sides of the Arno […]
Accelerated Global Arbitration Rules: A Curb on Madness.
CPR‘s are barely 15 months old. Global. Commerical. Agile. Mobile. Flexible. Deliberately Hostile to making attorneys the main event. Aggressive. We are […]
At Above The Law: “Overseeing International Litigation”.
See Mark Herrmann’s Inside Straight column yesterday at Above The Law. Excerpts: This has been fascinating (to me, at least, but I […]
New, Appalling: Google-Based Naked Bongo Lawyering For Teacups.
WAC/P? needs to get out more–and bone up on threats to Customers, Clients and Buyers. This development involves marketers, lawyers and the […]
Generation Weenie: America’s still offended by Everything and Everyone.
They’ve stopped growing–and they are very happy with that, thank you very much. These people have children. It’s worrisome. What if being […]
Trials: McElhaney on Not Digging Holes.
Argue to the judge””not with the judge. In this month’s ABA Journal, Jim McElhaney gives us “Keeping Out of a Hole: It’s […]
American Exceptionalism: How U.S. Civil Litigation Is Viewed Abroad.
Another problem: the perception abroad of the extraordinary “localism”–generally county-based–of judges and juries in the state systems. Non-U.S. clients are also wary […]
Journeys
Journeys are the midwives of thought. —Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel (2002) Edward Hopper, Compartment C, Car 293 (1938)
Above The Law Gets Serious.
A reason for lawyers over 25, and with passable mental health, to read a mega-popular law blog. Former Jones Day partner and […]
Atlantic Review: Is the War on Hysteria now Transatlantic?
Our friends at the Atlantic Review–the Berlin-based press digest founded in 2003 by German and American Fulbright alumni–write that “Like America, Germany […]
Los Angeles: Neely Swanson’s No Meaner Place.
No Meaner Place is an examination of overlooked quality in Hollywood–and the real life “failures” of the best of the best. It’s […]
King Me. Now.
Back in the day, Baby Boomer Prince Charles, now 62, was cool, mod, dashing and could do no wrong. According to some […]
Both Worlds: Got Ambition?
Who got off their knees? Who stood up? Who was Dirty? Who was Clean? Hagar and Van Halen. That’s who, ‘Cups. Re: […]
Jim McElhaney: Jurors–and Lawyer Fatigue.
Most jurors are smarter than you think. Granted, they do weird things. But they get subtleties. They take their jobs seriously. And […]
MCC
It’s the kind of publication the entire Western world would be reading if Nazis had won WWII. Second only to “Super Lawyers”–check […]
Writing For Clients–Just Say It-Part 3
For me, the greatest single wedge driven between clients and lawyers is “legal” writing. In response to this blawg’s December 14 post […]
Writing Well: Satire–and Law?
The satirist is to be regarded as our physician, not our enemy. —Henry Fielding, 1707-1754 Like lawyers, physicians may no longer be […]
Great Work-Life Balance Moments in the Movies.
He’s saying he didn’t want to be President of the United States so he could stay home and be “Daddy”? Give me […]
Atlantic Review: Is the War on Hysteria now Transatlantic?
Our friends at the Atlantic Review–the Berlin-based press digest founded in 2003 by German and American Fulbright alumni–write that “Like America, Germany […]
Writing Well: Legal-speak needs to go.
Behold the image of the self-important “I’m-special” lawyer, rocking back and forth in his chair, and talking to himself like a mental […]
Outsource This.
If you are a client, why “outsource” just commodity work?
Weak Local Counsel–Another Lawyer-Centric Epidemic?
Weak local counsel (sometimes “terd”) esp. Amer. n. 1. a wimpy law firm hired in an unknown or insular jurisdiction or locale […]
Redux: Weak Local Counsel–Another Lawyer-Centric Epidemic?
Weak local counsel (sometimes “terd”) esp. Amer. n. 1. a wimpy law firm hired in an unknown or insular jurisdiction or locale […]
This Week’s Blawg Review: IP Savvy in a Class by Itself.
Over at Cincinnati-based powerhouse Frost Brown Todd, partner and patent lawyer Stephen Albainy-Jenei is still a Mother of Invention. Don’t miss this […]
My Marrakesh: Christian tattoo artists in Muqattam, Egypt.
East of Cairo, Muqattam is a suburb known for its past limestone cuttings, as well as for being the home of three […]
Mother Jones: Fear and Weirdness in the 2010 U.S. Elections.
Kevin Drum’s November 5 article in Mother Jones–the enduring hell-raiser and serial winner of National Magazine Awards–is called “Weird Findings From 2010’s […]