Ted Kennedy
To be Irish is to know that in the end, the world will break your heart. –Daniel Patrick Moynihan Call me a […]
HRC: Until the last dog dies.
That’s a Bill Clinton Ozark mountains expression. We have always liked it even though WAC? writers (and Hull McGuire lawyers) are very […]
How To Work With A Weenie, If You Must.
Two fine posts on Gen-Y, Gen-X, Boomers: Scott Greenfield, NYC, Simple Justice, “Hull to Gen Y Lawyers: Get It or Get Out“. […]
Learning well
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. –William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), poet and statesman.
Got proofreading?
Proofreading errors are avoidable, even under the gun–if you make ardor in proofreading a habit. Take invoices to clients. Invoices, if done […]
The Dumbest Generation?
See last week’s WSJ piece “Can U Read Kant?” in which David Robinson reviews Mark Bauerlein’s new book. In The Dumbest Generation, […]
Oil is $132 a barrel.
Another new record. Bloomberg: “Oil Rises Above $132 on U.S. Supply Drop, Bank Price Forecasts“. Last week, the US DOE says, supplies […]
China’s New Labor Law
Plus “Why Vietnam Is No Big Thing”. Read peripatetic Dan Harris at China Law Blog. And see “China Earthquake Donations“.
Who cares what makes Generation Y tick?
From a marketing e-mail I received today: Are you frustrated by young workers who feel entitled to success, need constant praise, want […]
Not just an Irish thing: “Let no man write my epitaph”.
It was a 1960 movie with Shelley Winters, Ricardo Montalban, Jean Seberg and Burl Ives (playing a nice boozy Irish Chicago judge) […]
Perfection’s curse: Why Justin isn’t helping us move the ball.
Devil perfection is the bane of first children, overachievers and, yes, lawyers. Especially new ones from top schools and/or with top grades. […]
I’m There For You Baby
Listen to the Baby’s most recent podcast, No. 22, featuring segments “What drives the “I think I can” entrepreneur?” and “Colbert effect: […]
How did Humans first start resolving the Fist Fights of Life?
The International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR), International Dispute Negotiation program (IDN): Interview with American cultural anthropologist Robert Carneiro. Ten […]
Employer Sanctions Law
See at O’Neil Associates Public Domain “Employer Sanctions Law: Small Businesses Say Impact is More Negative than Positive” by The Silver State […]
Howlin’ Wolf – Dust My Broom
Listen, peoples, I’m gonna show you how to play the blues….
London star Ms. Ruthie hosts next Blawg Review.
Ruthie of Ruthie’s Law is the ultimate London law bird: (1) solicitor-writer-biker and (2) one of the few women who on earth […]
…and Happy 80th Birthday to JDH III.
There’s not a man in a carload of you. Happy Birthday, Dad. You’re still my hero.
Happy Birthday, Charon QC…
I seek truth and justice wherever I go for my readers…duty must be done this day… England expects.
Mike Huckabee: He’s back!
And we’re seeing Mike on and in the national news a lot lately. We kind of missed him, even when he was […]
Writing Well: The Criminal Defense Trial Lawyer Weenie-Client Exception.
New York’s Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice makes a good point in “Crossed I’s, Dotted T’s, Enough“.
EU steps up antitrust investigation of drug makers.
BRUSSELS (Canada’s Law Day) ““ European antitrust investigators are expanding their inquiry of the European pharmaceutical market in an effort to determine […]
Rjon Robbins: Failing to win.
Whether you are hunting mega-large publicly-traded or mom-and-pop small ones, to land clients, maybe you should “double your rate of failure”. See […]
Profits
Ron Paquette at More Partner Income has a 3-part series: “Partner Cost And Client Profitability“.
Holden heads to northern England, gets his solidarity thing on.
Hearing “Blackleg Miner”, a 19th century Northumberland, England folk song, could make a serious, union-hating industrialist drink too much, give all his […]
Persistent Cleveland
Like other Midwestern U.S. cities with manufacturing roots, it has tried to diversify. In recent years Cleveland lost TRW, Office Max, BP, […]
Patent reform in in the US–and business-method patents.
The Economist: America’s Patent System: Methods and Madness. “The federal court charged with hearing patent appeals has hinted that it may use […]
China’s earthquake: How you can help.
See China Law Blog and the UN’s ReliefWeb. Yesterday’s earthquake, China’s worst in 30 years, has left at least 10,000 dead. Countless […]
Toyota suspends southwestern China plant after quake.
TOKYO/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp. on Monday suspended production at a 13,000-units-a-year joint venture plant in Chengdu, southwestern China, after a […]