Richard Nahem: A Paris Christmas.
All month long, our friend Richard Nahem, an American photographer and writer who lives in the Marais district, has given us Christmas […]
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It’s Limey Time at the ABA Blawg 100.
Two Hip Brit Wits. Legal London and the Profession Unbound can be found at GeekLawyer and Charon QC. GeekLawyer is a barrister […]
“All hat, no cattle”.
Everyone in your shop has to buy into client service like a cult, like a religion–like an angry sermon that lifted them […]
New FRCP deadlines effective December 1, 2009.
While the work of the Judicial Conference’s five Advisory Committees never really stops, big changes to federal court rules, including the Federal […]
Is French Television still hiring up all the good Anchorettes?
From earlier this year, see La Mom via The Paris Blog. We still admire 43-year-old Laurence Ferrari, the Sorbonne-educated anchor at French […]
Suddenly, American CPAs are boozing, drugging and philandering.
Columbia Pictures Not really. But those folks do seem to be “getting out” more. It’s good to escape your own neighborhood–and on […]
Raise the dead, heal the sick, and make a blind man see.
Simple Justice: Who Hates Social Media Snake Oil Salesmen?
Can we change how good clients think about lawyers?
The work of a bricklayer goes to the blue. The knack of a mason outlasts a moon. The hands of a plasterer […]
Dites-le en anglais, s’il vous plait?
French blogs (see lower left of this blog), not that suprisingly, often have stunning designs, photos and graphics, but we’d still like […]
The Overstatement.
When you overstate, readers will be instantly on guard, and everything that has preceded your overstatement as well as everything that follows […]
Rule Eight
Over at our annoying but highly correct 12 Rules, Rule Eight is “Think Like the Client–Help Control Costs“. If you really think […]
Redux: The GC as Wartime Consigliere.
(From a June 1, 2009 JDH post) “I don’t like violence, Tom. I’m a businessman. Blood is a big expense. “ In […]
Southeast Asia: Hari Raya Puasa
At Richard D. Lewis’s fine Cross-Culture, see “Malaysia: An ‘Open House’ Tradition“, by Martin Králik, on the Eid al Fitr holiday as […]
Got a Little Black Book for you right here. But are you ready to do some work?
Note: Below is review of a very fine new book by Miami’s Paula Black we did in August 2009. This holiday season […]
Practice tip: Do timely object to hand grenades.
Diane Arbus, Central Park, 1962 Even without notice, you can let some stuff slide a little when it slips into defense counsel […]
Greenfield
No computer will ever win a case. No gadget will replace the mind that drives the fingers that push the buttons. SHG, […]
Dudes, man up! You can do it! Get a spine. Get a life. Use your real name on the Internet.
You went full retard, man. Never go full retard. Don’t go home in pain. –Robert Downey, Jr., gravely, to Ben Stiller, in […]
Wanted: Improved, higher-functioning, digitally-competent Boomers.
CBS Baby Boomers were the first generation to grow up with TV–so why can’t we take the next steps? Gen-Y and Gen-X […]
Boomers don’t [heart] Tech enough.
For a lawyer, I’m not too bad at science, and math. Geometry came easy. At my mega-competitive college prep high school in […]
“Hello, my name is Amy Walker.”
Dialect. Here’s a bit of talent, some fine digital self-promotion and–best of all–a quick trip through the English-speaking West.
Clients: How to ditch bad ones.
Just drop off the key, Lee. Even hard-working, über-competent and genuinely service-oriented companies–all 5 or 6 of them on the planet–have at […]
Don’t compete on price–especially now.
If a new client demands a “discount”, color it unsophisticated and a pain in the ass. Refer it to that firm down […]
On voting for judges.
That a popularly-elected state judge in your pocket? Judges should not have “constituents.” But in most American states, they still do. And […]
Ex-national anthem
Soulless gen-Y robots, Spineless digital Tele-Tubbies: hang in there–the Recession makes you stronger, cooler. In the meantime, just eat, watch TV, text […]
London’s Charon QC: On Libel.
The Outlaw Charon. Quite a few inspired posts lately on defamation law and news by the velvet-voiced Brit pundit, academic, lawyer, broadcast […]
Harold: ‘There is no other music.’
“Harold, don’t you have any other music , you know, from this century? -There is no other music–not in my house. There’s […]
Try this at home: Change How Clients Think About Lawyers.
The work of a bricklayer goes to the blue. The knack of a mason outlasts a moon. The hands of a plasterer […]
Milton Supman (1926-2009)
No Boomer growing up in Detroit in the 1950s could miss Soupy Sales. You think of him as a Howard Stern for […]