Outsourcing: India firms paying better.
At Legal Blog Watch by Carolyn Elefant: “Firm Salaries on the Rise in India“.
Billing: Is London/Paris/Prague a high-priced city, or what?
LAX-bound Dan Hull (under LA sniper fire, he claims) got a link today from similarly peripatetic and warlike Ed. of Blawg Review. […]
Real estate: Got cash? (part 2)
WSJ reports that banks are acquiring foreclosed homes faster than they can sell them off. Via beSpacfic.
BBC reporter loses it on air.
Our London mentor Charon QC so reports. Journalists, like trial lawyers can be, well, a little high-strung. But we can’t blame Charlotte […]
Non-U.S. clients, non-U.S. courts–and punitive damages.
Many clients from Europe loathe and avoid U.S. courts, especially state courts. They prefer arbitration panels, even when arbitration itself threatens to […]
No Fooling
Not to put pressure on the guy but next week’s Blawg Review host is one of the most talented, erudite and fun […]
Lamb: Where young legal talent may now go.
See this gem by Patrick Lamb we almost missed, and wish we could call our own: “Problems–The Mother’s Milk of Innovation” at […]
Wal-Mart trade dress: satire T-shirts OK.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (3/25): “A Conyers man may continue criticizing Wal-Mart with parodies on T-shirts that compare the retail giant to the Holocaust […]
Kane: Identify and keep the clients you “like”.
While our own Holden Oliver’s on one of his important-but-demented “I love rock n’ roll and hate all things PC” and “alternative […]
“Do childless women make the most productive lawyers?”
Dang. Salon and its new Broadsheet–see the first-rate above piece by Catherine Price–are on a workplace roll. But, uh, “Broadsheet”? Is someone […]
TechnoLawyer This: Blawg Review #152
“Late–but never lame”, former and thankfully now dead FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover always remarked about a quarter horse at Del Mar […]
Should we leave workaholics the hell alone?
WAC? believes that workaholism is not a major disease. If it is, we just love being around sick people. Such unfortunates build […]
Got cash?
AP: On U.S. housing prices in January 2008, Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller index reflects record 11.4 % drop.
Paris Parfait: York, England, and The Inimitable City.
American writer Tara Bradford spends Easter in York and then back to Paris for the real fabric of things. T. Bradford photo […]
The Trends: Client retention and development.
Customer loyalty is not dead. It’s different. See Jim Hassett’s five part series at Legal Business Development.
Mediating Internationally: Barcelona’s Arbitration Tribunal
Ancient Barcelona, Spain has always been a key commercial center–apart from its gifts to the world of Miró, a tradition of cultural […]
Baja Easter
Following our two days in LA, two London lawyer friends and I this weekend are touring what’s left of upper Baja California, […]
Redux: “Ease-of-Use Awards” For Law Firms?
Read it here…
Clients v. Employees: Are we asking enough of ourselves on client service?
Here’s a fine post on an important subject: Clients or Team Members – Which Comes First? at Innovative Practice Management. Obviously, for […]
Heroic, not-good news.
AP: JPMorgan Chase ‘rescue’ of rival Bear Stearns has spooked the markets.
IP Wars: Defamation suit by lawyers against Troll Tracker
Get all the dope at Cincinnati-based Patent Baristas in this post and the related links.
Saint Patrick’s Day Blawg Review
In Dublin, Daithà Mac Sithigh hosts this week’s Blawg Review #151 at Lex Ferenda.
Mediating Internationally: France & Italy
Hear the latest IDN interview, No. 18, “Expertise Proceedings in France & Italy: Same but Completely Different”.
C.J. Barton: “Nuclear Green”
I’m intrigued by it all. But I’m still not sure what either the science or politics of climate change does or does […]
Beyond borders, guns and money: A new global elite?
Do Rupert Murdoch, the Pope, Bill Clinton and Osama bin Laden form part of a new international class that replaces traditional governments? […]
“Name’s Oliver, Holden Oliver, just got back from ÃŽle Saint-Louis…”
Via Ed. of Blawg Review, and by Hugh MacLeod of gapingvoid.com, below is new non-business calling card for rogues (or roués), cads […]
Simple Justice on Spitzer Exit
At WAC?, we think that politics–the art of controlling your environment–is important every day, and especially important if you’re a business person […]
“When you work, you are marketing.”
Rule 6, our favorite in WAC?‘s famous and annoying-but-true 12 Rules.
Law Practice Magazine: Reading Minds
Stephanie West Allen, in her inaugural “Reading Minds” column of the ABA’s Law Practice Magazine‘s March 2008 issue, asked “wise minds” to […]
Flaubert’s last letters
In yesterday’s London Times, the popular British Flaubert scholar Julian Barnes reads between the lines of “Flaubert’s letters on sex, art, bankruptcy […]