Scotland’s Hogmanay 2009-2010: Staggeringly Cold.
Wear the rabbit fur-lined Somerled helmet Aunt Mordag gave you last year at the Burning of the Clavie. Whether you’re a Druid […]
Month: December 2009
Scotland’s Hogmanay: Staggeringly Cold.
Wear that rabbit fur-lined Somerled helmet Aunt Mordag gave you last year at the Burning of the Clavie. However you go–Druid priest, […]
The Economist: Working U.S. Women Officially Rule.
Robert Palmer once sang, persuasively and with brio, that “the women are smarter”. We’d add braver, and more motivated. It’s bracing to […]
Charon QC’s Christmas Art
CQC aims to add paintings through New Year’s Eve. We don’t understand the Art or the Context, but it did put us […]
Real Heros: John Hope Franklin
John Hope Franklin, author, historian and civil rights figure, died this past year at the age of 94. Franklin wrote From Slavery […]
Ile St Louis fruit stand, December 17, 2009 (R.Nahem)
Chantilly
At Richard Nahem’s I Prefer Paris, see “Meredith Mullins: Chantilly Night“. Photo: Meredith Mullins
Merry Clayton To All.
“Burns like a red coal carpet/Mad bull lost its way.”
Real Heros: The Chicago Craig’s List Lawyer-Employer Guy
We are not worthy. Above is Chicago. Below is an actual ad we received last week from our friend Scott Greenfield, an […]
The Economist: 2009 not so bad?
The Great Recession never arrived, says last week’s The Economist. But there’s a catch. See “The Great Stabilisation“. Excerpts: Today’s stability, however […]
Fruit stand on Ile St Louis (R.Nahem) Hotel de Ville (R.Nahem) Ile St Louis storefronts (R.Nahem)
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 […]
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 […]