The Client’s Stock Price Last Week? This Week?
Blaise (above checking share prices of companies) is about to get out of law school. She won prizes in Contracts and Evidence–and […]
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Take time out to learn the stock price, industry, day-to-day culture, players and overall goals of your client. Visit offices and plants. […]
We’re not there yet: Tuesday’s DC Circuit ruling on FCC jurisdiction over ISPs.
Earlier this week, on April 6, the D.C. Circuit ruled that the FCC lacked the authority to regulate the Internet traffic management […]
Keith Richards: It’s only Yeats and Maugham but I like it.
We knew this all along, of course. Nonetheless, our thanks here in America to Ray Ward in New Orleans and five feral […]
Special Anglo-Nantucket-Bow Tie Alert.
The waning of WASPs: that troublesome Stevens void. NPR’s Nina Totenberg notes that Supreme Court May Soon Lack Protestant Justices. Excerpt: In […]
O Rare Duke: Hated Hoops Tribe Triumphs in Hostile Hoosier Heartland.
Duke 61, Butler 59. Win or lose, Butler is one classy school and team. And I will never escape my own family […]
Good Saturday: Paris Spring 2010
It’s not often easy, And not often kind. Did you ever have to make up your mind? –J. Sebastian
Enduring and Excellent: Blawg.com
we are indebted to Bill Gratsch. When WAC? first began its directory of Non-US blogs on your lower left, we had no […]
The Other Easters.
You started out as a work of great art; please don’t die a copy of something mundane. Old Roman and Pagan versions […]
Slackoisie Dream Killer #1
Contrary to what anyone will tell you, clients are not particularly concerned with your personal happiness, free time and relaxation. Nor is […]
Tan, ready and relaunched: European Court of Justice blog.
God save the Dutch, as they speak and write English beautifully–and often better than us Yanks. What’s the deal there, anyway? Dutch […]
ADR Risings
For lawyers, depositions are like CAT Scans. It seems you can never be faulted for doing one too many. If we can […]
Six months.
PR International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR) has released its new Global Rules For Accelerated Commercial Arbitration. Significant provisions of […]
Building.
There is no joy except in creation. There are no living beings but those who create. All the rest are shadows, hovering […]
Goodland, Florida: ‘You got a problem with that?’
Half the adult population in this tiny town is said to be “non-voting”. Lots of old–but extremely fast–boats. No pretense, not much […]
Litigation: Depositions should get the “Badness” out there.
One of our writers working with Montagnard troops, Cambodia, 1968. Get The Badness in your case out in the open. Hostile witnesses. […]
The strange “sound of teacups breaking”: Tips on hiring the ‘Wazee: .
Had enough of The Slackoisie Issue? . Well, unless you love bleeding money, you should keep worrying about it. Our observation: what’s […]
The Atlantic: Health care reform passage as “a tainted victory”.
Sunday’s vote was “landmark”, sure. So is each Hell’s Angels’ Labor Day Picnic. But it’s not over, even procedurally, and so far […]
“Settlement Perspectives”: Why not ask the GC?
Blog posts. Even when they come from the better law and business sites, most of them–about 99 percent, frankly–aren’t going to change […]
P&G’s Alan Lafley: Look to the meaningful “outside”.
The Consumer as Boss and Laboratory. For nine years, from 2000 to mid-2009, A.G. Lafley served as chairman of Cincinnati-based Procter & […]
Real Winter: He makes a blind man see.
Put some bleachers out in the sun And have it out on Highway 61. –R. Zimmerman John Dawson Winter III, b. Beaumont, […]
Play Time on the Internet is over. Wanted: A few good rules.
Certainly, if he were real, Ned Beatty’s character Bobby in the movie adaptation of the James Dickey novel Deliverance would be permitted […]
Big Moxie in Greensboro: Kyle Singler.
Want a job, Kyle? Call us. Let’s talk. From The Chronicle, Duke’s daily: “Singler’s dive into stands, solid shooting lead Duke to […]
“Settlement Perspectives”: Why not ask The Boss?
Here’s a gem we would like to have worked at and written ourselves (notwithstanding the kind mention of Pat Lamb’s blog and […]
UPDATED: CPR’s Interview of Richard Susskind: “The End of Lawyers?”
If you haven’t read him yet, you’ve probably heard of Richard Susskind, of Susskind’s latest book–or at least of the idea that […]
China Business: The Rules.
If you are walking into a meeting preparing for a heated pissing contest why bother? There are no deals of the century […]
Patrick Lamb: Get used to it, Jack.
It’s time to step back and re-think things when a hardworking optimistic trial lawyer and innovator like Pat Lamb writes this: “The […]