Month: May 2007

An associate lawyer has been playing this podcast lately. For a couple of days I wrongly assumed it was an audio of […]

Patrick Lamb and Tom Kane comment on “The Way of the Mastodon“, by Sun Microsystems General Counsel Mike Dillon. That article, which […]

Well, WAC? could not have said it better. For some time now at Hill & Knowlton’s Client Service Insights (CSI), Leo Bottary […]

Patrick Lamb and Tom Kane

Lawyer-biker Norman Gregory Fernandez at Biker Law Blog does the honors this year in his thoughtful, knowledgeable and heart-felt Blawg Review #110. […]

“We are all in the business of selling solutions–products and goods are just tools and details.” –Overheard in a Los Angeles coffee […]

The Greatest American Lawyer, who after much intrigue finally outed himself as Michigan-based trial lawyer Enrico Schaefer, is a seeker and sayer […]

Answer: Don’t court or accept them in the first place. If you already have such a client, you get through it, you […]

Queen City, Clean City, City-State, the City of Seven Hills, and very well-kept secret, Cincinnati, Ohio was the only town my family […]

No–not Francois Villon, the 15th century French poet and vagabond. This is a much different Francois: an experienced French politician and reformer […]

Save this if you litigate abroad. “Faster, cheaper and better” is not, unfortunately, every business litigant’s experience in obtaining and enforcing awards […]

Not surprisingly, Arnie Herz, who writes the well-respected Legal Sanity, has delivered a Blawg Review #108 about lawyers as humans. Tom Collins […]

New York’s Arnie Herz is a thinker, writer, seer, and a guy my Mom in Ohio wants me to be more like. […]

In addition to excellent customer service, great lawyering and the sheer fun of quietly and systematically taking higher-end business clients away from […]

British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in many ways a politician as controversial in the UK as Bill Clinton has been in America, […]

I love the discrepancy between inside and outside counsel on the issue of whether billable hour targets encourage padding. For only half […]

For a long time I’ve thought that American business schools and the training programs of global and often publicly-traded companies do a […]

Young man, here’s a quarter; call your mother. Tell her you definitely have decided not to become a lawyer. Law school is […]

On one of our favorite subjects, Tom Kane at Legal Marketing Blog has “Mid-sized and Small Firms Can Compete With BigLaw.” He […]

Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair, who turns just 54 tomorrow, is expected to resign in the next few days. Like his friend […]

Renaissance man, lawyer’s lawyer and Dan Hull’s good twin, Ray Ward at Minor Wisdom has all the dope on the Tchoupitoulas Social […]

As usual, London’s Justin Patten at Human Law has a point. See “Are Lawyers Ready To Embrace The Concept Of Litigation Avoidance?“

It is between two French baby boomers, Ms. Ségolène Royal and Nicolas Sarkozy. It is interesting, fun, testy and embarrassingly American in […]

There’s a copy of it here, via beSpacific, if you scroll down a little. This features a lawyer-politician with an arguably high-end […]

He already owns Fox, MySpace and The Times of London. Now he’s bidding for Dow Jones, and its The Wall Street Journal, […]

British Werewolf in America. He apparently entered at Bangor, Maine, of all places. Geeklawyer may be in States to rest up for […]

It is between two French baby boomers, Ségolène Royal and Nicolas Sarkozy. It is interesting, fun, testy and embarrassingly American in style, […]

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Our main author is in the humble but beautiful village of Indian Hill, Ohio, pretending once again that he actually has a […]