Ensure Everyone Knows That The Client Is The Main Event
Rule Three is here from April 2006.
What About Experts?
See this one on expert witnesses from Scott Greenfield’s Simple Justice.
The Economist: U.S. middle class angry, suffering.
See Workingman’s Blues. Excerpt: Americans have grown accustomed to extraordinary prosperity. Poor Americans today are more likely to have fridges, dishwashers and […]
The Client Is The Main Event.
Rule Two from November 2005.
Blawg Review #172: The Olympics Come to the Blogosphere
This week’s Blawg Review, No. 172, is hosted by Jon Hyman at Ohio Employer’s Law Blog who puts on his own Olympic […]
Represent Only Clients You Like
The first in our series The 12 Rules of Client Service, Rule One is here from November 2005.
Redux: What About Small or Unsophisticated Business Clients?
If you have talented lawyers and staff, are good at what you do, seek interesting work, and want to be appreciated and […]
Cross-Selling Other Lawyers in Your Firm
Why it’s one of the best marketing tools and keeps everyone in the firm involved. See it here from December 2005.
Redux: Why Perfect Legal Work Alone Just Doesn’t Matter…
See our post from October 2005 here.
“After the revolution”: Words and phrases–outs and in.
Out permanently: 1. Next generation 2 Paradigm 3. Interface
Victoria Pynchon’s #171: Like a Vixen.
We’ll show you an “aha” moment, you saucy flirt. The multi-talented Vickie Pynchon, an attractive lawyer in my neck of the jungle […]
Victoria Pynchon’s #171: Like a Vixen.
We’ll show you an “aha” moment, you saucy flirt. Vickie Pynchon, a lawyer in my neck of the jungle who writes Settle […]
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
Reuters, the Russian news agency Interfax and other sources are reporting that the novelist died of a stroke. The writer, historian, ex-Red […]
Korean family values
At Sam Crane’s The Useless Tree, Ancient Chinese Thought in Modern American Life, see Modernization and Family Breakdown in Korea. “Why have […]
Fabulous in Minya, Egypt
Our peripatetic writer-photographer friend, Maryam of My Marrakesh, is now in Egypt.
Lawyer professionalism is still a crock.
And it must die. First, see the more PC version of our view which passed muster with the overly-polite San Diego media […]
Lawyer professionalism is still a crock.
And it must die. First, see the more PC version of our view which passed muster with the overly-polite San Diego media […]
Radio Free Paris, Part 2 of 2: The ICC’s International Court of Arbitration
On July 18, in-house GE lawyer Mike McIlwrath completed his interview with Senior Case Worker Francesca Mazza at the Paris-based International Chamber […]
Spence: Law education is a fraud.
We were both intrigued and happy to see this Legal Blog Watch piece by Robert Ambrogi and links to Gerry Spence’s blog. […]
now, may be asking, “what do all these posts have to do with the 14th Amendment?” Everything, I respond, because everything we […]
Rainwater Harvesting
Yes, that’s right. As the water supply becomes an issue, American states are considering requiring or policing it–and not just in Western […]
Exciting global news: French inching toward actually working again.
The French, uh, work ethic, so to speak. We’ve written about this subject before–and this news has us in a tizzy. Sixty-three […]
Obama in Berlin, Paris.
Photo: Matthew Rose WAC? thinks America is still uncomfortable about the idea of a young charismatic black man with an insider’s golden […]
Happy 65th, Sir.
Thanks to Ed. and his tickler system. It’s a boomer thing; if you’re one of them, and you’ve been listening for the […]
The Senate works on Saturday; NBC gets all excited.
The U.S. Senate is still the most elite and effective legislative body the world has ever seen. And most members of Congress–even […]
Correction.
Following Dan Hull’s post below on the upcoming host of Blawg Review, Scott Greenfield’s wife immediately submitted this alternative photograph of Scott […]
Simply Excellent.
Listen, you creeps, you screwheads. Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the […]
So John Edwards is a big dog, too?
Fox News, and the National Enquirer, say the ex-Senator’s been breaking bad, maybe with a staffer’s mistress, and maybe not. It’s confusing […]
Simple Excellence
It’s not often that a talented and well-known practicing trial lawyer has a wildly popular blog he operates on the side. The […]