Neary’s Hawk.
A celebrated Hollywood polymath and award-winning author Brian Neary has written a spy novel that’s “not like all the others.” A tight […]
Month: June 2012
Paul Fussell (1924-2012): Wit. World View. Punditry. Courage. And His Enduring “Class”.
The Bible of American Social Strata. Do you dress up to ride on planes? Are your clothes always new? How about your […]
Radical Replevin: Secret Diaries, a Vampire-Hunting A. Lincoln and the Lawyer-Pol as The Anti-Wimp.
Preposterous but fun. A beloved leader and lawyer as the Anti-Wimp. But Confederate soldiers at Gettysburg as the Undead? Benjamin Walker plays […]
No matter what your politics are, National Review’s Dan Foster hands-down wins prize for best media quip on today’s SCOTUS ACA ruling.
The News Editor of the conservative National Review Online this morning on Twitter:* Daniel Foster “@DanFosterNRO “Kennedy is a pimp. He never […]
SCOTUS sidesteps the Commerce Clause, reaches to hang hat on Power to Tax–and upholds ACA. You wild man, John Roberts.
Fancy if surprising footwork there, John Roberts. And it was interesting to everyone to see how SCOTUS got there. Today by a […]
A Few Words About Nora Ephron (1941-2012).
We should have put her in our Pantheon long ago. In 1972, in her essay “A Few Words About Breasts”, she changed […]
Thank you, Frisby & Company, Solicitors, Stafford, England, for having me speak today.
Because all three–Harvard prof Alan Dershowitz, my friend trial lawyer Dave Boies and one of our U.S. Supreme Court justices I’ve met […]
Dee Briggs Studio: This Summer in Pittsburgh and New York.
Dee Briggs Studio Dee Briggs Intimate Friction The Mattress Factory Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Curated by Mary-Lou Arscott Now through September 1 www.mattress.org Group […]
We won’t be commenting on the Sandusky verdict. A man’s life is over. But June 22, 2012 was an even worse day for lawyering.
No one any time soon will likely write a book about Pennsylvania lawyering and subtitle it “A Passion for Excellence”. West of […]
Paradiso, Amsterdam, May 27, 1995.
The Singer-Dueler-Dancer-Diva is Lisa Fischer. Mad bulls do lose their way.
Using the complaint against your client: Confer right away–like now–with your shop’s dorky non-litigators on the 33rd Floor.
Litigation puts a spotlight on things you can fix. Things you can fix now. The opportunities are endless–for both GCs and outside […]
Rochester: New York versus Kent.
WTF. Someone has to go there. But why us? American Rochester, Genesee River. Preferred Rochester, River Medway.
In San Diego: Kreep v. Peed. Another Argument for Merit Selection of State Court Judges in America.
Get classy, state legislatures. We’ve made the argument from this blog for 6 years and out of our firm for 20 years. […]
In San Diego, Kreep v. Peed. A colorable argument for merit selection of state judges.
We’ve made the argument several times. Judges should not be elected. See the San Diego Union Tribune
A Few Good King-Hell Eccentrics: Do you think rank-and-file employees are boring? Well, we do, too, Jack.
And is there a market, too, for the well-rounded geek? Is that coming? We all love employees, payroll soldiers and others from […]
Why I took 10 minutes off from work to trim my LinkedIn connections down to 400 of my closest friends.
Experts say 100 or so “weak tie” relationships is all the most energetic, driven and genuinely social (read: “olden days” social–not passive-aggressive […]
Ah, here we go…Greece on Sunday: “The eyes of the world…”
Is it just me–or does Greece, Europe’s first democracy, even vote real slowly? NBC News: “Greeks go to the polls in vote […]
It’s Bloomsday. The day you meet your wife can be its own world.
The day you meet your wife can be its own world. Above: James Joyce and Sylvia Beach.
Harvey at Studio 54: Everyman’s Favorite Pookah Rabbit.
In New York City now. See yesterday’s New York Times
Robots, Wimps & Gimps: What’s left at Big Law these days, anyway?
The old fortune teller lies dead on the floor. Nobody needs fortunes told anymore. –Dave Davies, Ray Davies Besides bad gene pools […]
If you come on like a dream.
The 1993 song “Remedy” by The Black Crowes is one of the ten best chancery songs ever cut. If I come on […]
Cross-Culture: A Dutchman born in Columbia marvels about–and explains–the post-colonial ethnic salad bowl that is Panama.
I’ve worked in Panama only twice–and I’d love to go back. Once spending a week there I was, like others, amazed by […]
The Wonderful Twos: One employee per client project is rarely a good idea.
“Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967”, Diane Arbus. Customers need to know you are authentically and earnestly “there”. One employee per project […]
HBR: In Praise of The Generalist. Just in time, too. “Domain expertise” was getting on everyone’s nerves.
This appeared on June 4 in the Harvard Business Review and what we’ve been trying to tell you lately in any event: […]
Mike O’Neil: Tomorrow’s Arizona race for Rep. Gaby Giffords’s seat. “The Only Other 2012 Bellwether Election.”
See by Mike O’Neil in today’s Huffington Post “The Only Other 2012 Bellwether Election.” Excerpts: Prior to the November presidential election, there […]
Eurozone “buys time” with loan to Spain: 100 billion euros.
Greece, Ireland, Portugal–and now Spain. The European Union and IMF at this point have earmarked 500 billion euros to finance European bailouts. […]
Pantheon: Chrissie Hynde, Pluperfect Anti-Peasant.
They say that Midwest-bred rocker Chrissie Hynde–and it started way before before the acclaim, fame and money–has no fear of Anything or […]
Cross-Culture: A Dutchman born in Columbia marvels about–and explains–the ethnic melding pot that is now Panama.
I’ve been to Panama only twice. Once spending a week there I was amazed by its legions of banks, range of going […]